20th April 2025
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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.
Poster available here, or for more information visit the Lonergan website.
7-9pm AEST, Friday 16 May 2025
871 Swanston Street, Parkville (enter West Hall via Tin Alley through St.Mary’s carpark)
Free
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