A meeting organized by the Archdiocese of Braga, the Commission for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults and the FFCS aims to address a complex reality, get to know some of the elements that make it up and suggest useful keys for recognizing abusive dynamics.
On January 22, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., a Workshop on Abuses of Power and Conscience entitled "Overcoming the Tip of the Iceberg: Abuses of Power and Conscience" will be held in the Padre António Freire Aula Magna of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (FFCS) of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) - Braga, with Ianire Angulo Ordorika, professor of theology at the Faculty of Theology of Loyola University, Granada Campus, Spain, as the speaker.
The risk of an iceberg for sailors is that you can barely see its tip, which is the only part of the iceberg visible outside the ocean. In the same way, sexual abuse in the Church is just the tip of an even larger but less visible mass of ice: abuses of power and conscience, within religious communities and ecclesial communities in general, and in general interpersonal relationships in ecclesial or non-ecclesial contexts.
This meeting, organized by the Archdiocese of Braga, the Commission for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults of the Archdiocese of Braga and the FFCS of UCP - Braga, aims to address this complex reality, get to know some of the elements that make it up and suggest useful keys for recognizing abusive dynamics in the way we relate to each other.
Registration is free, but subject to compulsory registration. For more information, please contact: bnobresj@ucp.pt.
Ianire Angulo Ordorika
Born in Bilbao (1976), she is a religious Slave of the Most Holy Eucharist and of the Mother of God. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Theology (Licentiate in Ecclesiastical Studies) at the Faculty of Theology in Granada, her Licentiate in Theology of Religious Life at the Pontifical University of Salamanca and her Licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical University of Comillas, where she received her doctorate in 2018. Since the 2014-2015 academic year, she has been a professor of Sacred Scripture at the Faculty of Theology in Granada, although she has also taught at other universities (Ecclesiastical University of San Dámaso, Theological Institute of Religious Life and Pontifical University of Comillas). His research has a dual interest. On the one hand, he studies the relationships between the Old and New Testaments and how intertestamental Jewish literature is able to illuminate and contextualize these connections. On the other hand, it delves into issues related to abuses of power in the ecclesial sphere, especially in institutions of consecrated life. Both centers of interest are well represented by the two research groups to which he belongs: the one promoted by UNIJES (Network of Jesuit Universities in Spain) to study the structural dimension of abuses in the Church from a theological perspective, and the emerging research group at Loyola University on biblical re-readings. (Cf. https://www.uloyola.es/oferta-cientifica/personal-investigador/ianire-angulo-ordorika)
