Australian National Conference 2004

Catholic Faith and Australian Society

FCS Australia 2004 Annual Conference
Saturday 6 March
Polding Centre, 133 Liverpool Street, Sydney

Programme:

9am Members’ Meeting

10am Conference Mass - Principal Celebrant and Preacher:
Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney

10.30am Morning tea

11.00am Opening Plenary Session
Philip Ayres—“Schism in Ossory: Moran’s Handling of the O’Keefe Schism 1872-79”

12.00pm Parallel Session 1
Catherine Althaus—“The Lost Citizens of Cyropreservation”
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Adrian Barrett—“Faith and Values: Political Representation in the Modern Era”

1.00pm Lunch

2.30pm Parallel Session 2
Michael McAuley— “Wrongful Birth? Wrongful Life?”
or
Tracey Rowland—“What is Augustinian Thomism?”

3.30pm Closing Plenary
Fr Michael Tate— “Reflections on George Weigel, Just War and Political Reality” (NB. New topic)

4.30pm Afternoon Tea

5.00pm Vespers

7.00pm Conference Dinner
East Sydney Hotel - Corner of Crown and Cathedral Streets, Woolloomooloo
Cost: $45 (2 courses, coffee & wine, beer and soft-drink)

THE SPEAKERS

CATHERINE ALTHAUS is Senior Treasury Analyst at the Queensland Treasury. She recently undertook a PhD in Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University on the topic of “Policy Design and the Calculation of Political Risk” and has an interest in public policy development in the context of natural law principles and virtue ethics.
PROFESSOR PHILIP AYRES is a member of the Department of English at Monash University and was recently commissioned by the Archdiocese of Sydney to write a biography of Cardinal Moran. His most recent book is Owen Dixon (Miegunyah Press)
ADRIAN BARRETT is the Research Officer for the Federal Member for Indi.
MICHAEL MCAULEY is a Sydney Barrister.
DR TRACEY ROWLAND is the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Australia) and Permanent Fellow in Political Philosophy and Continental Theology. She is the author of Culture and the Thomist Tradition after Vatican II (Routledge: London, 2003) and a member of the Editorial Board of the English edition of Communio: International Catholic Review, founded by Hans Urs von Balthasar and Cardinal Ratzinger, among others, to foster a vision of post-Conciliar renewal rooted in tradition.
REV PROF MICHAEL TATE AO was a member of the Australian Senate 1978–1993, Federal Minister for Justice 1987–1993, Ambassador to The Netherlands and The Holy See 1993-1996, and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Hobart in 2000.

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The Conference is open to the public and welcomes registrations from members and non-members alike. Clergy attending are invited to concelebrate the Conference liturgies.

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2004 Conference Programme in Adobe Reader format [PDF]

Australian National Conference 2004 Papers