Paul Collins is a broadcaster, historian, and writer with nearly forty years of experience in radio and television. He has worked in various capacities, including as a producer, correspondent, and commentator on TV and radio channels in Australia, the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Collins has contributed to channels such as the BBC, NPR, Sky TV News, and Al-Jazeera network. He covered two papal elections in 2005 and 2013 for ABC, SBS, and the Seven Network. Collins has also taught church history, theology, and ministry in Australia, the United States, and several Pacific countries, having served as director of the Weber Center in Adrian, Michigan, lectured in Australian history at the University of Papua New Guinea, and worked as a parish priest in Sydney, Canberra, Launceston, and Hobart. With seventeen books in print, including Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World (2018), The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of
