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In this episode, Paul Osborne talks to Bishop-Elect Joe Caddy on the eve of the Vatican announcement of Pope Francis' appointment of his Very Reverend Joe Caddy AM VG, a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne, as the eighth Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Cairns.
Fr Joe, 64, was born and raised in Melbourne and ordained to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Melbourne in 1990.
He holds a Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity and degrees in Social Sciences from the Gregorian University in Rome, where he studied Catholic social teaching, social ethics and economics.
From 2002 to 2013 he served as part-time chaplain in the prison ministry team, providing the Sunday worship service and pastoral care to prisoners and their families in Melbourneâs menâs maximum-security prisons.
He served as CEO of CatholicCare (Greater Melbourne, Geelong and Gippsland) from 2004 to 2017, during which time he advised the Victorian and federal governments, Australian Council of Social Service, and other bodies on a range of issues including homelessness, juvenile justice and local government.
In June 2018, Fr Joe was recognised in the Queenâs Birthday Honours list with an Order of Australia Medal in the General Division for âsignificant service to the community through a wide range of social welfare initiatives and policy reforms, the Catholic Church in Australiaâ.
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âDignitas InfinitaâOn Human Dignityâ was released by the Vaticanâs Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on April 8, 2024. The declaration presents a survey and summary of the Churchâs teaching on the concept of human dignity as a way of correcting certain misunderstandings that the Dicastery claims have emerged about the concept in recent years. It includes a series of reflections on issues that it sees as âgrave violationsâ of human dignity. It is arguably the first âsummaryâ of Catholic moral teaching issued by the Dicastery since the Instruction âgnitas Personaeâon Certain Bioethical Questionsâ in 2008. (From David Kirchhoffer's Eureka Street article Vatican invites global discussion on human dignity (eurekastreet.com.au))
The Australian Catholic University's Sandie Cornish and David Kirchhoffer talk to Paul Osborne from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference about the document.
Episode Guests
Dr Sandie Cornish is a Senior Lecturer in Theology at Australian Catholic University and a Member of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. She specialises in Catholic social teaching, thought and action.
Associate Professor David G. Kirchhoffer is Director, Queensland Bioethics Centre, Australian Catholic University
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In this episode, weâre talking with Dr Virginia Miller, a research fellow with the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University. Dr Miller's book, Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence, has just been published. The book looks at inquiries in Ireland, the US and Australia, while the podcast focuses on the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Australians can download Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence for free from Firenze University Press or purchase it from Italian bookseller IBS.
