Albert Reuben Edward Thomas

Albert Reuben Edward Thomas (26 October 1908 − 24 September 1983) was an English Australian Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood on 30 November 1931, Thomas was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst, Australia on 29 September 1963 and retired on 12 April 1983.[1]

He headed Catholic social welfare in Sydney in the 1950s.[2] As Australian Director of the Pontifical Mission Society, he criticised donors who wished to give to particular projects, writing, "Today people are so self-centred that even in their charity they wish to have some self-satisfaction. Hence they prefer to give to a specific need or project than to give to a world-wide fund such as the Holy Father's Propagation of the Faith."[3]

References
  1. Albert Reuben Edward Thomas profile, catholic-hierarchy.org; accessed 11 March 2014.
  2. D.J. Gleeson, Some themes in Australian Catholic social welfare history, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 28 (2007), 7-17.
  3. B. Lucas, The history of the pontifical missions in Australia', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 37 (1) (2016) Archived 2 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 82-90.


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