1. Tina Beattie was born on 16 March 1955 and is a British Christian theologian, writer and broadcaster.
14 Facts About Tina Beattie
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Tina Beattie is a long-standing advocate of a more prominent role of women in the Catholic Church.
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Tina Beattie is the eldest of three daughters born to Charlie and Nan Bell.
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Tina Beattie was born in 1955 in the northern part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, nowadays Zambia, to Scottish Presbyterian parents and lived there for eighteen years, attending the Dominican Convent School in Lusaka.
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Tina Beattie lectured at the University of Bristol and Wesley College, Bristol, and taught for the Open University.
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Tina Beattie took up a full-time post at the University of Roehampton in 2002.
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Tina Beattie left her post as Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Roehampton in August 2020.
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Tina Beattie continues in her role as Director of Catherine of Siena College, based at the University of Roehampton.
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Tina Beattie wrote regularly for the Catholic weekly, The Tablet, and The Guardian newspaper, including an eight-part series on Thomas Aquinas.
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Tina Beattie was a theological advisor to Cafod, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development; the President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain ; a Director of the Catholic weekly, The Tablet.
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In October 2012, the University of San Diego cancelled a visiting fellowship for Tina Beattie following the pressure from financial contributors to the university who objected to the theologian's alleged public dissent from the Church's moral teachings.
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Tina Beattie was scheduled to give a lecture on depiction of sin and redemption in art.
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On two occasions, on instructions from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, British bishops banned Tina Beattie from speaking on Church properties in their dioceses.
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In 2014, the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, ordered to cancel an event at St Catherine's Convent, Edinburgh, where Tina Beattie was due to speak on invitation of the Edinburgh Circle of the Newman Association.