Patricia Madigan
Patricia (Trish) Madigan OP (born 1950) is an Australian religious sister, a member of The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands and Executive Director of the Dominican Centre for Interfaith Ministry Education and Research (CIMER). Early life and education. Patricia Madigan was born in 1950. She entered the religious life and became a religious sister as a member of The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands. Career. After beginning her career as a secondary school teacher and university chaplain, Madigan has worked predominantly in ecumenical and interfaith ministry in Sydney, Australia. She  was a foundation member of the Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) in Sydney and a Christian representative on the Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Jews and Muslims (ANDCJM), Australia's peak inter-religious body and was the former Director of the Commission for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay (2003–2013) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney (1997–2003). Interfaith work. Between 2004 and 2012 Madigan was an Australian delegate at five regional inter-governmental conferences of the Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace and Harmony. In 2002 she participated in a Consultation of  the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue for the Asian region held in Seoul, South Korea. She is a former member of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Advisory Committee for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations and the former Chair of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Council for Australian Catholic Women (CACW). Writing and research. After the Arab Spring, Madigan published Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism, one reviewer noted the timeliness of her work as much as its content.