Pope Francis and Other Prophetic Voices: Reshaping the Public Sphere

16 September 2015 to 18 September 2015

Australian Catholic University

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St Michael's on Collins, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne

The Hon Linda Dessau, Governor of Victoria, formally opened the Conference.
Speakers included:
  • Rev Joe Caddy – CEO, Catholic Care Melbourne
  • Emeritus Professor Joseph Camilleri OAM - Managing Director, Alexandria Agenda; Emeritus Professor at LaTrobe University in Melbourne
  • Mr Greg Cantor – CEO, Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund
  • Rev Noel Connolly ssc - Head of Mission Studies, Columban Mission Institute
  • Mr Pat Dodson - a Yawuru man from Broome, W.A.; founding chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
  • Rev Bruce Duncan cssr - Director Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy
  • Mr Denis Fitzgerald - Executive Director, Catholic Social Services Victoria
  • Dr Ian R. Fry - Honorary Postdoctoral Associate, University of Divinity (Melbourne); Interfaith Research and Dialogue Consultant
  • Rev Andrew Hamilton sj - Editorial Consultant of Eureka Street; policy officer with Jesuit Social Services
  • Bishop Philip Huggins - Anglican Diocese of Melbourne
  • Ms Sandra Jones - Director, Centre for Health and Social Research, Australian Catholic University,
  • The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG - former Justice of the High Court of Australia
  • Dr Rachael Kohn - Producer/Presenter, ABC Radio National’s The Spirit of Things
  • Ms Anne Lanyon - Deputy Director, Columban Mission Institute; Co-ordinator, Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice
  • Sr Veronica Lawson rsm - biblical scholar
  • Bishop Vincent Long ofm Cap - Auxiliary Bishop, and Episcopal Vicar for Migrants, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
  • Dr Francis Macnab AM OM - Executive Minister, St Michael’s Uniting Church, Melbourne
  • Dr Jenny Te Paa Daniel - Maori lay woman, theologian
  • Ms Heidi Pfeiffer - 2015 Academic Excellence Scholarship recipient, Australian Catholic University
  • Ms Moira Rayner - lawyer, Principal at Moira Rayner and Associates
  • Rev Jerry Rosario sj - India’s “barefoot priest”; theologian, lawyer, social activist
  • Mr Anthony Steel, Institute for Advancing Community Engagement, Australian Catholic University
  • Ms Naomi Wolfe - Aboriginal educator, Australian Catholic University

Professor Camilleri assisted in the planning of the Conference and addressed the public forum on 17 September at Cathedral Hall, Australian Catholic Univresity, Melbourne

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