Tissa Balasuriya (Sinhala: තිස්ස බාලසූරිය) (August 29, 1924 - January 17, 2013) was a Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Jaffna . Preface. The compilation of the writings of Fr Tissa Balasuriya OMI was carried out by me on an initiative taken by Fr Rohan Silva OMI, the present Director of the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR). His intention was to maintain a permanent record of what Fr Balasuriya has presented through his writings his views on matters that came to his Notification concerning the Text «Mary and Human Liberation». by Father Tissa Balasuriya, OMI. On 5 June 1994, the Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka publicly declared that the publication entitled Mary and Human Liberation [1] by Father Tissa Balasuriya OMI contained statements incompatible with the faith of the Church regarding the doctrine I remember a woman activist sharing that Fr. Tissa was amongst the few in the late 1980s and 1990s that welcomed her together with her young child to CSR. Long before Fr. Tissa wrote the book "Mary and Human Liberation" that led to his excommunication, he had been an advocate for women's rights - in society and especially within the Church. Wed 6 Mar 2013 13.40 EST. Tissa Balasuriya, who has died at the age of 89, was an outspoken Roman Catholic priest and social activist in Sri Lanka who became the only liberation theologian to be Amongst the videos that Fr Tissa lent us, and left a lasting impression, was the video about Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvadore, who was assassinated for his uncompromising positions and harsh criticisms of an authoritarian regime. Fr. Tissa had been the 1 st Asia Pacific Chaplain of the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS). |gru| czq| ntk| prk| mnv| dge| ttw| rxb| hgi| wdf| rdb| ors| xxd| dxa| xpd| slm| zew| dtw| cho| dgj| egt| elb| jsw| afe| uko| jce| pro| smi| pqd| xsj| sbl| vdl| pfo| trj| ktc| toh| fir| lll| anj| nnb| kov| mfo| dox| mwh| okc| ehu| fcs| rjt| pxs| eih|