Julie holds the position of Catholic Studies Lecturer at UniSA. She also works as part of the Catholic Identity and Mission Team at Catholic Education SA. Julie has been Ministry Formation Program Coordinator for the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, lecturer in ministry studies at the Catholic Theological College as well as tutor in theology at Flinders University. She has held the position of Coordinator of Youth Ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide and has been a teacher and Religious Education Coordinator/Assistant Principal Religious Identity and Mission (APRIM) in a number of Catholic secondary schools both in South Australia and the Northern Territory and also in Manila, Philippines.
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About me
Julie holds the position of Catholic Studies Lecturer at UniSA. She also works as part of the Catholic Identity and Mission Team at Catholic Education SA. Julie has been Ministry Formation Program Coordinator for the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, lecturer in ministry studies at the Catholic Theological College as well as tutor in theology at Flinders University. She has held the position of Coordinator of Youth Ministry for the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide and has been a teacher and Religious Education Coordinator/Assistant Principal Religious Identity and Mission (APRIM) in a number of Catholic secondary schools both in South Australia and the Northern Territory and also in Manila, Philippines.
Julie holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in both Education (Adelaide and Flinders) and Theology (Flinders and the Catholic University of Leuven). Early in her career, she graduated from the Institute for Spirituality and Worship (ISW) Program at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley California. Her PhD (supervisor: Professor Denis Edwards), awarded by the Australian Catholic University, included a year of research as a visiting scholar at the Cardinal Walter Kasper Institute for Theology, Ecumenism and Spirituality at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, Vallendar Germany. More recently Julie completed a Graduate Diploma in Spiritual Direction (ACU/Jesuit College of Spirituality). She is currently in training as a Spiritual Director with the Arrupe Program.
About me
Australian Catholic Theological Association,South Australian Secondary Religious Leaders Association (Honorary Member)
About me
Doctor of Philosophy Australian Catholic University
Coordinator Ministry Formation Program (Archdiocese of Adelaide)
Cordinator Catholic Office for Youth and Young Adults (Archdiocese of Adelaide)
Assistant Principal/ Religious Education Cordinator: O'Loughlin Catholic College (Darwin); Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College; Cabra Dominican College; Siena College (Adelaide); St Joseph's School (Barmera SA)
Theology Lecturer/ Tutor: Siena College (Manila); Flinders University (Adelaide)
Pneumatology and implications for the life and mission of the Catholic Church,Ministry and Educational Leadership,Theology and Ecclesiology of Walter Kasper.
Women in Ecclesial Leadership.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Australian Catholic Theological Association (ACTA) Gender Justice Working Group. This group aims to be of service to the ongoing reception of the 1999 document “Woman and Man: One in Christ Jesus. Report on the Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia” and to ACTA’s commitment to furthering research to advance women’s leadership and theology in the Church and society.
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID
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Trinidad, Julie [forthcoming 2025], 'Women's Leadership in a Participative and Collaborative Ecclesial Structure in the Archdiocese of Adelaide: A Story of Relational Renewal and Structural Change.' Australasian Catholic Record.
Trinidad, Julie 2024, 'St Ignatius' Rules for Thinking with the Church: Spiritual Direction for a Synodal Church.' The Way: Review of Christian Spirituality 63/4 (October): pp. 9-20.
Australian Women Preach Podcast: https://anchor.fm/awp/episodes/87--Julie-Trinidad---6-November-2022-e1pe39v
Trinidad, Julie 2021, 'Still listening to the spirit: woman and man twenty years later', Australasian Catholic Record vol. 98, no. 1, pp. 115-116.
Trinidad, Julie 2017, "Walter Kasper’s theology of the Spirit and its implications for the reception of Lay Ecclesial Ministry in the Catholic Church." Unpublished Doctoral thesis, Australian Catholic University. (Supervisor: Professor Denis Edwards. Theology faculty nomination for the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Training)
Trinidad, Julie 2014, “The Holy Spirit in the Theology of Walter Kasper: Engaging the faith experience of the laity.” Marriage, Family and Spirituality (INTAMS) 20, no. 2: pp.191-97.
Trinidad, Julie 2007, "The Right Way to Speak of God : Exploring the theology of Elizabeth A. Johnson." Unpublished Masters thesis, K.U.Leuven Faculty of Theology, Belgium. (Supervisor: Professor Terrence Merrigan)
Research
Pneumatology and implications for the life and mission of the Catholic Church,Ministry and Educational Leadership,Theology and Ecclesiology of Walter Kasper.
Women in Ecclesial Leadership.
S.A.Council for Christians and Jews (member)
Australian Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue (member)
South Australian Holocaust Museum and Steiner Education Centre (Education Advisory Committee member)
Adelaide Catholic Archdiocesan Commission for Formation (member)
External engagement & recognition
External engagement & recognition
Australian Catholic Theological Association
South Australian Secondary Religious Leaders Association (Honorary Member)
Systematic Theology, Ministry and Faith Leadership,Theory and Practice of Religious Education
Teaching & student supervision