18 February 2026
14:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
(Eastern Time – Ottawa, Canada)
This free webinar is offered online and in English only.
In this seminar, I plan to discuss the term “vulnerable” as used in recent Church documents and reflect on how useful a theological or canonical concept it might be. I go on to discuss how it might be interpreted in a way which avoids the creation of an “underclass” within the Church. In the process, I consider the relationship between vulnerability and disability and theological and canonical parallels elsewhere in Church practice.
Rev. Dr. Justin Glyn
Rev. Dr. Justin Glyn is a legally blind Jesuit priest, lawyer, canonist, and academic currently residing in Melbourne, Australia. He serves as General Counsel to the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus, where he works in both civil and canonical legal practice. Fr. Glyn has practised law in South Africa and New Zealand and currently practises in Australia. He is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria, the Canon Law Society of America, and the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand, where he chairs the editorial board of its journal, The Canonist. He is also a member of the Loyola Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University. In addition to his priestly ministry, Fr. Glyn works in the areas of legal and canonical governance, academic and practical disability theology, and tutoring, with occasional lecturing. Prior to entering the Society of Jesus, his principal areas of training and professional work were commercial law, international law, and administrative law, the latter two of which were the focus of his doctoral studies.
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