Eucharistic Congress Symposium June 2012

Maynooth College will host a major international symposium on The Eucharist from Wednesday 6th June to Saturday 9th June 2012. This symposium is scheduled for the week before the 50th International Eucharistic Congress which will be held in Dublin from 10th to 17th June 2012.

 

The Ecclesiology of Communion
Fifty years after the Opening of Vatican II
6 - 9 June 2012

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Speakers and Participants

Rev Professor Piero Coda
President of the Sophia University Institute, Loppiano, Florence; President of the Italian Theologians Association; Formerly Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Lateran Pontifical University, Rome, and Prelate Secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Theology; He has published widely, most recently Dalla Trinità – L'avvento di Dio tra storia e profezia (Rome, 2011).
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Rev Professor Eamonn Conway
Professor Eamonn Conway is a priest of the Tuam diocese; Doctorate in theology in 1991 and taught Systematic Theology at All Hallows College, Dublin; Head of Theology and Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick since 1999 Co-director of the Centre for Culture, Technology & Values since 2000; Published widely; President of the European Society for Catholic Theology since 2009. Research Interests: Karl Rahner; Hans Urs Von Balthasar; ecclesiological issues raised by the child sexual abuse crisis within the Catholic Church; The interface between culture, technology and religion; The profile and status of theology at third and fourth levels.
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Rev Professor Finbarr Clancy
Rev Professor Finbarr Clancy SJ is Professor of Theology at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin, where he is also currently Rector of the Ecclesiastical Faculty and Acting President. He is the Chairman of the Patristic Symposium, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. His research interests are in Patristics, sacramental theology, the ecumenical dialogue between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, spirituality of priesthood, Trinitarian theology, the theological legacy of Yves Congar O.P., and Christian iconography.

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Professor Robert Enright
Dr Enright is professor of Educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Professor Enright has pioneered the scientific study of forgiveness, which now claims over 1,000 researchers worldwide.  He teaches courses in moral development with an emphasis on the psychology of forgiveness. He is a popular speaker on the moral development of forgiveness, with his work appearing in such outlets as Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and ABC’s 20/20. back to programme


Professor Joris Geldhof
Dr Joris Geldhof is professor of liturgical studies and sacramental theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. PhD on the provocative nature of Christian revelation in 2005; Authored and edited several books in Dutch and English; Chair of the Liturgical Institute Leuven; Editor-in-chief of the bilingual journal Questions Liturgiques/Studies in Liturgy. The major focuses of his research and teaching are: theology of the Eucharist; Sacraments and sacramentality; Sources and methods of liturgical theology; Theology and Romanticism.
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Sr Gill Goulding
Sr Gill Goulding is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Spirituality at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral studies were undertaken at the University of Edinburgh, where she was elected a Research Fellow on completion of her Ph.D. She lectured in Systematic Theology and Spirituality for the University of Edinburgh, the Roman Catholic National Seminary in Scotland and the Theological Institute of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Alongside her work as a theologian she undertakes a ministry of spiritual direction and retreat work. She came from Scotland to Canada in 2001.
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Rev Professor Brian Johnstone

Professor of Moral Theology / Ethics in the Catholic University of America, specializing in bioethics, moral theology and Philosophy of the Gift. Philosophy of the Gift is a project extending the philosophical and ethical concept of giving a "gift" to a new framework for moral theology, by defining the ultimate and absolutely gratuitous gift of self as that of Jesus Christ on the Cross, completed in the Resurrection.

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Dermot A Lane
Dermot A. Lane is President of the Mater Dei Institute, a college of Dublin City University. He has also taught at the Irish School of Ecumenics in Dublin and is a frequent lecturer in the United States. Along with many publications, he has written on Eschatology and is an editor of The New Dictionary of Theology. He has served as chairman of the Dublin Diocesan Council of Priests and is currently parish priest of Ballally parish, Dublin.
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His Eminence Kurt Cardinal Koch
From the diocese of Basel, Switzerland, formerly Professor of Theology at Lucerne; Appointed bishop of Basel in 1995; Since 2010, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Elevated to Cardinal in November 2010.

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Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, SDB
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa (Honduras). He was Professor of Moral Theology and Ecclesiology at the Salesian Theological Institute, Guatemala, and later its rector; President of the Episcopal Conference of Honduras; President of Caritas Internationalis. Created Cardinal by John Paul II in 2001; Member of: Congregation for the Clergy; Pontifical Councils: for Justice and Peace; for Social Communications; Pontifical Commission for Latin America; XII Ordinary Council of the Secretariat General of the Synod of Bishops; Special Council for America of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.

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His Grace Most Rev Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin
Former Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the UN in Geneva; Former secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Member of the Council of the General Secretary of the Synod of Bishops and of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications; Co-moderator of the Joint Working Group for Relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.

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Rev Dr Theodore Mascarenhas

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Fr Theodore Mascarenhas, SFX, a member of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses for a period of five years on 4th March. Fr Mascarenhas, a Pilar Father who is currently based in Rome, is in charge of the Departments of Asia, Africa and Oceania at the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture; Doctorate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontificio Instituto Biblico, Rome; Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome , the Pontifical St. Thomas University, Rome and the Pilar Theological College, Pilar, Goa.

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Rev Professor Michael McCabe, SMA
Fr Michael McCabe is a member of the Irish Province of the SMA and worked as a missionary in Zambia and Liberia.  In 1981 he was awarded a Doctorate in Theology by the Pontifical Gregorian University for a thesis on Religion and Politics in the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr.  He taught at St Paul’s College-Seminary in Liberia from 1981-’89; Kimmage Mission Institute, Dublin from 1996-2001 where he was President from 1999 – 2000; served as a member of the SMA General Council; President of the Executive Committee of the Africa/Europe Faith and Justice Network (AEFJN) from 2002-2004; he has written in the areas of Mission Theology, Inculturation, Interreligious-Dialogue and JPIC commitment; currently Head of the Mission Studies Department of the School of Theology at Tangaza College, Nairobi.

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Rev Professor Slawomir Nowosad, Hab. PhD
Rev Slawomir Nowosad is Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations and Professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, where he is also Head of the Department of Ecumenical Moral Theology. His main areas of interest and research are: The Ecumenical dimension of Christian morality; Anglican moral theology; Protestant moral traditions; Moral aspects of demography.

Sr Teresa Okure, SHCJ

Sr Teresa Okure is Professor of New Testament and Gender Hermeneutics at the Catholic Institute of West Africa, Nigeria, and Head of the Department of Biblical Studies and former Dean of the Faculty of Theology. She received her PhD from Fordham University, New York.

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Dr Jennifer O'Reilly
Jennifer O’Reilly is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy; PhD from University of Nottingham; Senior Lecturer in Medieval History in UCC until 2008; Teaches Art History. Research interests: Influence of traditions from the world of Late Antiquity on Insular art and writing (history, hagiography, exegesis). Published widely on Adomnán; Bede; Insular illuminated manuscripts; Medieval iconography of the Crucifixion.

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His Eminence, Marc Cardinal Ouellet
On June 30, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Previously Archbishop of Quebec City and primate of Canada.

Rev Brendan Purcell

Dr Brendan Purcell is a former lecturer in philosophy at UCD and is a priest of the Dublin diocese ordained in 1967. He received his STL from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, and his PhD from UCD. Published widely; currently teaching philosophy at Notre Dame University, Australia.

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Rev Prof Nicholas Sagovsky

Rev Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey from 2004-2011 and a member of ARCIC II and ARCIC III is a renowned scholar and ecumenist. From 1982 to 1986 he was Vice-Principal and Director of Studies, Edinburgh Theological College and from 1986 to 1997 Fellow, Dean and Director of Studies in Theology, Clare College, Cambridge. From 1997 to 2002 he was William Leech Professorial Research Fellow in Applied Christian Theology, Newcastle University. From 2002-2004 he was Professor of Theology and Public Life, Liverpool Hope University College.

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Dr Geraldine Smyth OP
Sr Geraldine Smyth is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies and Head of Discipline for the Irish School of Ecumenics. PhD in theology from Trinity College (1992); Psychotherapist interested in the intersections of religious experience, theology and psychology; Formerly Director of ISE ( 1995-1999); Involved in the Post-Conflict Justice Centre in Trinity College; Currently a visiting Senior Research Fellow at Durham University.

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Rev Professor Martin Stuflesser
Professor Stuflesser is a priest of the Mainz diocese; Professor of Liturgy at Julius-Maximilians-University in Wuerzburg, Germany; Doctoral studies in Theology at the University of Munster; Since 2003 he is Secretary of the International Society for Liturgical Study and Renewal (Societas Liturgica).

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Professor Geoffrey Wainwright

British Methodist Theologian well-known for his ecumenical writings and engagement in official dialogues; Awarded the 2005 Johannes Quasten Medal by the Catholic University of America for "excellence in theological scholarship".

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Dr Clare Watkins
Dr Watkins is a Catholic theologian, teacher and writer; doctoral studies in theology at Cambridge University. Areas of interest include: ecclesiology and sacraments; marriage; baptismal vocation; Christian education and ‘domestic church’. She currently works freelance: teaching at the Westminster Seminary; Cambridge University; Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology; Education for Parish Service in dioceses, deaneries and parishes. Serves on two British bilateral ecumenical dialogues, and the International Methodist-Roman Catholic Commission.
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Professor Stefano Zamagni
Professor Zamagni is Professor of Economics of the University of Bologna and is the author of several books, including Cooperation and Essays in honour of Sir John Hicks, both published in 2008. He was President of ICMC from 1999 to 2007 (an NGO based in Geneva dealing with migrant and refugee issues) and fellow of “Human Development and Capability Association” (Harvard University).
In 2007 Professor Zamagni was appointed President of the Italian Commission for Non Profit sector, Milan. He is also a member of the scientific committee of various economic journals and reviews .

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