Once a cheeky response to a question with “yes” as the only answer, Is the Pope Catholic? has become a more serious question for debate, including among Catholic scholars. What’s the significance of a Pope who commonly appears alongside the latest petition on non-Catholic Facebook feeds?
Chris Sullivan is an ordained married Catholic permanent deacon (itself a radical reform in the Catholic Church) with a background in trade union and labour movement activism, the living wage movement, ecumenism and interfaith, and a variety of solidarity movements such as Latin America, anti-Apartheid, Treaty of Waitangi.
He will speak of a Catholicism which expresses the radicality of Jesus and his support for the poor, oppressed and marginalised and his challenge to the social structures which create that. In other words, Liberation theology, and its re-emergence.
Enjoy a delicious Ika meal (seafood, meat and vegetarian options) and take a look into the Catholic Church.
Doors open 5.30 pm, meal approx 6.15 pm followed by discussion. $32 including your main meal.
WHEN
September 13, 2016 at 5:30pm – 10:30pm
WHERE
Ika Seafood Bar and Grill
3 Mt Eden Rd
