Book Launch speeches, Golding Centre Colloquia 2010

Papers presented at the launch of the Pauline Shaw’s book Elizabeth Hays: Pioneering Journalist, Gracewing, 2009 at the Golding Centre Colloquia 2010.

'Elizabeth Hayes: Pioneer Franciscan Journalist'

'Response to Prof. R. Gascoigne by Sr Pauline Robinson mfic'

'Response speech of Dr Pauline Shaw mfic'

'The Evolution of Women and Their Possibilities'
Miss Annie Golding

Published in the 'Christian Woman' section of the Proceedings of the Australasian Catholic Congress, Melbourne, 1904.

'Some Aspects of the Story of Catholic Women in Australia'
Sophie McGrath

This paper was presented to the NSW Diocesan Delegates of the Commission for the Australian Catholic Women (CACW), February, 2002.

'Mary Tenison Woods - Social and Political Activist'
Margaret Press

This thorougly researched paper was presented at the 2002 Flora MacDonald lecture series, which highlighted the pioneering social and political work of Catholic women in the mid-twentieth century.

'The Augustinian Rule and some aspects of Augustinian Spirituality'
Rosa MacGinley

Since most active religious congregations, both women and men, have constitutions based on the Augustinian Rule the following transcript has proved to be of wide interest.

'Are we hard-wired for holiness? From Neuroscience to neurotheology.'
Kim Power

This is an introduction to the course which Kim gave in 2003 as a result of winning a grant for the promotion of science and religion from the Science and Natural Science Foundation at Berkeley. .

'Ethics after the Death of God '
Kim Power

This paper is the unpublished Sr Vergina Geiger Memorial Lecture in Ethics which Kim was invited to give at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1998 when she was Senior Fullbright Scholar there.

'Re-imagining Mary at Christmas '
Kim Power

First written for the Re-imagining Christmas Newletter, 1998.

'Body and Gender in the Father's of the Church '
Kim Power

Published in Hildegard of Bingen and Gendered Theology in the Judeo-Christain Tradition, Julie S.Barton and Constant Mews (eds), Monash: Institute for the Study of Religion and Theology (1995).