Copy of Loss of Trust and Crisis of Leadership: Responses with the help of St Thomas Aquinas

The Annual DSPT Aquinas Lecture will be presented by Most Rev. Anthony Fisher, O.P., Archbishop of Sydney, Australia.
It is widely agreed that trust is eroding, especially trust in major institutions and their leaders. Religious, political, governmental, justice, corporate and media institutions are less trusted today, and trust between individuals is also diminished. This plays out in many negative ways in people’s lives. In this lecture Archbishop Fisher will seek to unpack the “what, why, and how” of trust with the help of St Thomas Aquinas. In particular, he will identify three warrants of trust without which one party will not trust another. He will also examine some of Aquinas’ thinking on leadership, concluding with some thoughts on how best to address the contemporary loss of trust and crisis of leadership.