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16 Ave Maria L. Rev. 36 (2018)
The Twenty-First Century Catholic Lawyer

handle is hein.journals/avemar16 and id is 42 raw text is: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CATHOLIC LAWYER Michael Quinlanf [Flaith, if good deeds do not go with it, is quite dead. INTRODUCTION Although the proportion continues to decline,2 the majority of Australians still identify as Christians just as they have since the first census was taken.3 Catholics are now the largest single religious denomination' and Australia is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world.' There are increasing numbers of Australians who describe themselves as having no religion.' Although the evidence is sparse on this question, in the past, the religious profile of lawyers closely followed the religious profile of the general population.' If this remains so, it is likely that the decline in church attendance SProfessor Michael Quinlan BA LLB, LLM (UNSW), PLTC (CL), MA (THEOLST) (with High Dist) (UNDA) Dean, School of Law, Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia. 1. James 2:14-17 (New Jerusalem Bible). Unless expressly stated, references to the Bible are to this translation. 2. 2016 Census Data Reveals No Religion Is Rising Fast, AUSTL. BUREAU STATS., http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mediareleasesbyReleaseDate/7E65A14454055 1D7CA2581 48000E2B85?OpenDocument (June 27, 2017) [hereinafter 2016 Census]. Between 2001 and 2011, the proportion of the Australian population identifying with a Christian faith tradition fell from 68% in 2001 to 61% in 2011 to 52% in 2016. Id.; Reflecting a Nation: Stories from the 2011 Census, 2012-13, AUSTL. BUREAU STATS., http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/lookup/2071.Omain+features9O2O12-2013 (last updated Oct. 19, 2017) [hereinafter Reflecting on a Nation]. 3. Reflecting on a Nation, supra note 2. 4. Id. Catholics, as a percentage of the Australian population, declined from 25.3% in 2011 to 22.6% in 2016. 2016 Census, supra note 2. 5. Adam Possamai et al., Muslim Students'Religious and Cultural Experiences in the Micro-publics of University Campuses in NSW, Australia, 47 AUSTL. GEOGRAPHER 311, 312 (2016). In particular, there has been a significant increase in those identifying with non-Christian faiths, from around 7.2% of the total population in 2011 (up from 4.9% in 2001) to 8.2% of the total population in 2016. Reflecting on a Nation, supra note 2; 2016 Census, supra note 2. 6. Growing from 15% of the population in 2001 to 22% in 2011 to 30.l1% in 2016. Reflecting on a Nation, supra note 2; 2016 Census, supra note 2. 7. David Weisbrot, The Australian Legal Profession: From Provincial Family Firms to Multinationals, in LAWYERS IN SOCIETY: THE COMMON LAW WORLD 271, 305 tbl. 6.6 (Richard L. Abel & Philip S.C. Lewis eds., Beard Books 2005) (1988). 36

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