How did we get here, and where are we going: opening up the discussion about the Catholic Church and matters LGBTQIA+ (Sydney)

Tuesday, September 26, 2023
2:00 PM 5:30 PM 14:00 17:30

Mary Mackillop Place 11 Mount Street North Sydney, NSW, 2060 Australia (map)

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The seminar will begin with a presentation focused on opening up the discussion about the church and matters LGBTQIA+, followed by a workshop to deal with issues of truthfulness, transparency, shame and violence as we face outwards to a world in which first person discourse is ever more common for LGBTQIA+ people.

This topic will be discussed in Melbourne and Sydney.

Audience: Religious Institute Leaders and all Religious who want to meet, discuss and consider issues relating to their members and staff, and how to facilitate transparency and psychological well-being as part of coping with change in self-understanding in this area.

SYDNEY

Date: Tuesday 26 September

Time: 2.00 – 5.30pm

Venue: Mary MacKillop Place, 11 Mount Street, North Sydney

Fee: $40 p/p (includes afternoon tea)

Enquiries: please contact Gillian Lee by ph: 02 9557 2695 or
email: secretariat@catholicreligious.org.au

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About James Alison

James Alison is a prominent theologian and author, known for his firm and patient persistence in promoting truthful conversation and dialogue in the Church with regard to matters LGBTQIA+ and for his pastoral outreach in the same sphere. He shares a vision of an inclusive, psychologically healthy Christian life that is scripturally based, theologically orthodox, and ecclesially grounded. He is also renowned for his application of René Girard's anthropological insight to Christian Systematic Theology.

James joined the Mexican Dominicans in 1981 and completed the novitiate in England, at Blackfriars, Oxford. He was ordained in 1988. From 1987, James studied at the Jesuit theology faculty in Brazil and completed his doctoral thesis by 1994.

Over the last thirty years, James has been a prolific writer and his books have been translated into six languages. Currently he works as a travelling preacher, lecturer and retreat giver, based in Madrid, Spain. James has been to Australia in 2004, 2010, 2014 and 2016.