EVENT
Thur, 10 June,
7-9pm
Ryan Auditorium, Australian Catholic University
40 Edward Street, North Sydney
Catholics comprise a significant portion of Australia's
population but are they meeting their potential
when it comes to engaging with today's overarching
social issues? How do we start reclaiming our
Catholic sense of right and wrong on social issues?
Speaker panel:
FRANK BRENNAN
SJ, Jesuit and human rights advocate
SANDIE CORNISH, Co-author,
Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus
STEFAN GIGACZ, Canon lawyer
and lay activist
(Full bio of speakers below) |
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Sponsored by:
Australian Catholic Movement for Intellectual
& Cultural Affairs (ACMICA)
Australian Catholic University (ACU)
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FULL BIO:
Fr Frank Brennan
Frank Brennan SJ AO, a Jesuit priest and lawyer, is an Adjunct
Fellow at the Australian National University in the Research
School of Pacific and Asian Studies; Professor, University
of Notre Dame Law School, Perth; Chair, Visiting Committee,
Faculty of Law, Griffith University; and Associate Director
of Uniya. He was the Jesuit Refugee Service Country Director
of East Timor for eighteen months. He has written widely on
civil liberties and human rights. His latest book, Tampering
with Asylum (University of Queensland Press, 2003), critiques
and offers alternatives to Australia's current refugee policy.
Ms Sandie Cornish
Sandie Cornish, past National Executive Officer of the Australian
Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) for the Australian
Catholic Bishops and recently returned from working as the
Coordinator of the Hong Kong-based human rights group, the
Asian Centre for the Progress of the Peoples. Sandie was a
co-author of the BIshop's report Woman and Man: One in
Christ Jesus.
Mr Stefan Gigacz
A lawyer by training, Stefan Gigacz later also studied canon
law. His experience of the lay apostolate began with the Young
Christian Workers (YCW) movement in Melbourne and later took
him to Asia and other continents with the International YCW.
More recently, he worked for the French development NGO, CCFD
(Catholique comité contre la faim et pour le développement)
as desk officer for China, Vietnam, Burma and Thailand. Now
based in Kuala Lumpur, he works as a writer and translator.
His main projects at present include the launching of a Young
People for Development (YPD) program in South East Asia and
researching a history of the French Sillon movement which
became the prototype of later lay apostolate movements. He
is also a founder member of the Cardijn Lay Community.
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