2025 Tom Daly Oration

2025 Tom Daly Oration

An Oration in honour of Fr Thomas Vincent Daly SJ presented by Archbishop Clement Papa, Archbishop of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

By Lonergan Australasia
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Date and time

Fri, 16 May 2025 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM AEST

Location

West Hall, St Mary’s College (Enter West Hall via Tin Alley through St Mary’s carpark)

871 Swanston Street Parkville, VIC 3052 Australia

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

2025 Tom Daly Oration

Archbishop Clement Papa, Archdiocese of Mount Hagen, Papual New Guinea will present the 2025 Tom Daly Oration on:

"The PNG Experiment, and the Contribution of Bernard Lonergan and Tom Daly"

Since independence, Papua New Guinea has enjoyed some extraordinarily exciting times in the making of a single and unique nation out of a thousand tribes. But this drive towards social integration in the post-independence era has brought enormous social challenges.

As we move towards good governance, self-autonomy, improving standards of living, preservation of traditional culture and identity, constitutional changes, political reforms, responding to climate change, and the provision of basic social services to remote outposts, we need a national conversation which will accommodate the total picture of a new generation of people, a transforming society and its contemporary challenges, the recent political history and its impact on social change.

This Oration engages Lonergan’s theology of redemptive history, incorporating progress, decline and redemption, to expand our insights and identify multiple clues to possible practical solutions to the complex situation in PNG.

Discussion will follow the Oration.

Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the Oration.

Archbishop Clement Papa bio

Archbishop Clement Papa is the newly appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mount Hagen, Papual New Guinea, a Diocese located in the PNG Highlands. Clement was a student of Tom Daly, SJ. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theology from the Catholic Theological Institute, Port Moresby, and a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, and a Doctorate in Systematic Theology from the University of Divinity, Melbourne. Most of his priestly ministry has been spent in formation work at the Good Shepherd Seminary, Banz, in the PNG highlands. His doctoral thesis was a study dealing with Bernard Lonergan’s idea of redemptive history and its application to PNG social concerns.

Frequently asked questions

Will the Oration be available online?

Yes, the Oration will be online - contact us via email (lonerganaustralasia@fastmail.com.au) and we will send you a link.

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