Letters to Maev: A Theologian and His Sister
Gerald O'Collins SJ
Paperback, 160 pages, $24.95
ISBN 9781922815446
Release: April 2023
What Maev contributed to my story shines through the letters I wrote
to her from 1978 to 2017 – mainly from my home base in Rome. When that
surviving correspondence began, she was the head of what became the
Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Papua New
Guinea. On retirement in 1989 she returned to Australia and chose to
live in Canberra. There she could have richer contacts with Papua New
Guinea and the rest of Melanesia.
During a long and fascinating life, Maev showed herself a person ‘for
others’, constantly concerned to promote the rights and wellbeing of
everyone, no matter who they were. The letters I wrote to her
persistently reflect the impact of her wise love on me, her younger
brother Gerald. – From the Preface
Gerald Glynn O’Collins SJ is an Australian Jesuit priest, author,
academic and educator. For more than three decades, he was professor of
systematic and fundamental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian
University (Rome). In 2006, O’Collins was made a Companion of the
General Division of the Order of Australia (AC).
