Cristina Lledo Gomez is a systematic theologian and the Presentation Sisters Lecturer for BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education. She is also a Religion and Society Research Fellow for Charles Sturt University’s Public and Contextual Theology Centre. A graduate of University of Divinity (MTh) and Charles Stuart University (PhD), she is the author of Church as Woman and Mother: Historical and Theological Foundations (2018) as well as a number of articles and chapters in other edited volumes. She is currently working on her second book A Babaylan-Inspired Theology from Australia, as well as a number of articles and chapters in edited volumes. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Catholic Theological Society of America Catherine Mowry Lacugna Award for her essay “Mother Language, Mother Church, Mother Earth,” an exploration of the Catholic rhetoric on mothering as it affects the way women, the earth, and indigenous peoples are treated.
