McGrath, Francis J.

Appointed the editor of Newman's Letters and Diaries in January 2003, following the sudden death of the previous editor, Gerard Tracey, Francis McGrath is an Australian Marist Brother and was the first Australian to complete doctoral work in Newman studies at Oxford. In the late 1970s and early
1980s, he undertook postgraduate studies at Boston College, Massachusetts. Recent work in Australia has included writing and coordinating three nationwide distance theological education programmes.