Father Michael Tate, an Australian senator who became the nation’s justice minister and ambassador to the Netherlands and the Holy See, died on June 5 at the age of 80.
Tate left behind his political and diplomatic career to become a seminarian and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Hobart in 2000.
“For the next 26 years he served as a parish priest in Tasmania, far from Canberra, far from the headlines, a life very different from the high office he had once held,” The Catholic Weekly reported.