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Thomas V. Gourlay is the president and co-founder of the Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture Inc., and the manager of Campus Ministry at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in education from the University of Notre Dame Australia, and has worked for a number of years as a classroom teacher and faculty head of Religious Education in a number of Catholic schools in Western Australia. Tom is currently working towards a Masters degree in theology at The John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in Melbourne, Victoria. Tom has been published in The Heythrop Journal, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, and Crisis Magazine. Recently married to his wife Elizabeth, Tom lives in Perth Western Australia
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