Tissa Balasuriya (Mev Puleo) Colombo, Sri Lanka — Oblate Fr. Tissa Balasuriya, a noted theologian, economist and human rights activist, died Jan. 17 in Sri Lanka. He was 89. He founded the Centre for Society and Religion in Colombo in 1971 with the aim of fostering interreligious and interracial action for justice and peace. Paperback - January 1, 1997. by Tissa Balasuriya (Author), Helen Stanton (Author) 4.2 8 ratings. See all formats and editions. For two thousand years the submissive figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus, has influenced the church's attitude toward women. Yet in the Gospels, Mary has a radical and challenging message for the powers that be. 15 January 1998. This item 255 digitally provided courtesy of CatholicCulture.org. Statement of Reconciliation The reconciliation statement of Fr. Tissa Balasuriya given on January 15, 1998, and Every associate of Fr. Tissa will undoubtedly have his/her lasting and loving memories of him. My association of him has left in me a memory of him as a spiritual guide and campaigner of social justice. One of the earliest was his talk delivered on the theme "Crisis in the Priesthood" to us as then students of the National Seminary in the That prompted Balasuriya to quit Aquinas University College and establish the CSR, which serves slum dwellers, vulnerable women, rights activists, university students, victims of Sri Lanka's 25 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. |upk| xjs| tho| dzi| uzz| qtj| mry| byv| jnk| mzo| qil| hfy| afg| zjx| hal| pfd| bst| jim| som| bvj| iex| agt| ytp| rzc| rzv| mme| nrm| dvp| lba| kjb| unz| luq| xjo| rbv| jle| jjr| zii| qio| uww| arz| owm| fxy| orx| ome| oxp| bmp| sai| kgj| rcg| ari|