Conscience, Relativism and Truth: The Witness of Newman | Archbishop Fisher, OP & Thomas Farr

"Conscience, Relativism and Truth: The Witness of Newman"
Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP (Sydney) Response: Thomas Farr
(President of the Religious Freedom Institute, Washington, D.C.)
These talks were given as part of the Thomistic Institute
Conference "Newman the Prophet: A Saint for Our Times" which was
part of the official program for the canonization weekend of John
Henry Cardinal Newman and held at the Angelicum in Rome on October
12, 2019. Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, He was born in Sydney on 10
March 1960. After graduating with first-class honours, Archbishop
Fisher practised law at Clayton Utz in Sydney. He took leave from
his legal job and backpacked around Europe to discern his vocation.
Archbishop Fisher made his perpetual vows for the Dominicans on 18
February 1987, and was ordained a priest at Holy Name Parish,
Wahroonga, on 14 September 1991.On 18 September 2014, Pope Francis
appointed Bishop Anthony the ninth Archbishop of Sydney. His
installation took place at St Mary’s Cathedral on Wednesday, 12
November 2014. In 2015, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Fisher to
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He was also
appointed an honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas
Aquinas. He has continued as a member of the Pontifical Academy for
Life. Thomas Farr, He serves as President of the Religious Freedom
Institute, a non-profit that works to advance religious freedom for
everyone, both as a source of individual human dignity and
flourishing, and as a source of political stability, economic
development, and international security. A leading authority on
international religious freedom, Dr. Farr served for 28 years in
the U.S. Army and the U.S. Foreign Service. In 1999 he became the
first director of the State Department's Office of International
Religious Freedom. He subsequently directed the Witherspoon
Institute's International Religious Freedom (IRF) Task Force, was a
member of the Chicago World Affairs Council’s Task Force on
Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy, taught at the National Defense
University, and served on the Secretary of State’s IRF working
group. From 2008 – 2018 Dr. Farr was Associate Professor of the
Practice of Religion and World Affairs at Georgetown University’s
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He also directed the
Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown’s Berkley Center. A PhD in
History from the University of North Carolina, Farr is a senior
fellow at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor
University. He serves as a consultant to the U.S. Catholic Bishops
Committee on International Justice and Peace; on the boards of the
Institute on Religion and Democracy, Christian Solidarity
Worldwide-USA, and Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School;
and on the boards of advisors of the Alexander Hamilton Society,
and the National Museum of American Religion. Farr teaches
regularly at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute.