{"product_id":"prince-of-the-church-by-philip-ayres-9780522853735","title":"Prince Of The Church","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrince of the Church\u003c\/i\u003e is the first biography of Cardinal Moran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoran and his conflict-ridden worlds come alive as Philip Ayres exploits sixty-one years of unpublished diaries. He reveals a man of contradictions—self-contained, private, hard of access, yet forceful and determined in pursuit of his ends; pious and devout, yet proud, ambitious, and ruthless with his enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the first cardinal appointed to Australia, Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911) gave his Church a strength of leadership and authority not seen again in a Sydney archbishop for a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Ireland in 1830, Moran was brought up in Rome and witnessed the Roman Revolution of 1848, including the momentous and violent events of the risorgimento, the movement for Italian unity. The sounds of exploding hand-bombs and anti-clerical demonstrations broke the quiet of his archival researches into Irish ecclesiastical history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1866 he returned to Ireland and in 1872 was made Bishop of Ossory (at Kilkenny). As the movement for Home Rule and land reform became revolutionary and violent, Moran was pressured into articulating an increasingly radical nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAppointed Archbishop of Sydney in 1884, he was promoted to Cardinal the following year. He was prominent in the movement for Federation, running for election to the 1897-98 Federal Convention, and influenced the policy direction of the Labour Party under John Watson. Moran spoke out forcefully on moral and religious issues, relishing the sectarian print wars he often started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrince of the Church\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitive account of Cardinal Moran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46377182527724,"sku":"9780522853735","price":60.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3671893482374.jpg?v=1744831950","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/prince-of-the-church-by-philip-ayres-9780522853735","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}