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Collins has a master"s degree in theology from Harvard University and a Doctor of Philosophy in history from the Australian National University (American National University).
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He has taught church history and theology in Australia, the United States and Pacific countries and worked as a Catholic parish priest in Sydney and Hobart. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the American National University and the Ethel Hayton Visiting Fellow in Religion and Society at the University of Wollongong. Collins has written for many Australian newspapers and magazines as well as for the The Tablet, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States and for several Catholic magazines in Germany.
Collins is a lifelong supporter of the Richmond Football Club in Melbourne.
Collins was further accused of holding the view that a teaching, to be considered church doctrine, must be approved through the sensus fidelium - the "sense of the people" - as well as by bishops and theologians. In March 2001 he resigned from his role as a Catholic priest due to a dispute with the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over his book, Papal Power.
In explaining his resignation, Collins cited the increasing rigidity and sectarianism of the Vatican, stating that the August 2000 declaration Dominus Iesus expressed “a profoundly anti-ecumenical spirit at odds with the sense of God’s grace permeating the whole cosmos”. Collins has suggested that the elevation of Pope Benedict XVI"s personal assistant, Georg Gänswein, to Archbishop in early December 2012 (he was ordained as Bishop on 6 January 2013) was an indication of the impending resignation of Benedict XVI. Such elevations of the Pope"s Personal Secretary have, previously, normally occurred only shortly before the death of a Pope, but while the Pope is still lucid.
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