A 2-volume study of the last 200 years of Catholicism in Australia. Drawing on and quoting at length from primary sources, and through interviews with leading Catholic figures, the author focuses in particular on the experiences and involvement of the Catholic laity. The study is chronologically organised in four sections of 50 years each, and the topics examined include the Irish, Catholic education, the internal organisation of the Church, migrants, and women. The volumes come in a slipcase and each is indexed. The author's previous works are TWhich Seeds Shall Grow' and TWays of Belonging'.