Last week the US Bishops met in San Diego for their annual spring assembly. On Monday June 10th, just prior to their formal meeting, the Committee on Doctrine organized an academic workshop on the principle of cooperation. In...
Read MoreOn Friday Nov 16th at Fordham University in New York, Peter Singer and three theologians shared a podium to discuss the theology and ethics of the treatment of non-human animals, particularly in light of the practice of...
Read MoreHuman Acts (Part Three, Chapter One, Section One, Article Four) Human actions are crucial for any moral theology because it is through a human being’s free actions (and free actions = human actions, properly understood) that...
Read MoreThis past week every Catholic moral theologian has been reminded of a recent crisis in our Church that some of us may well want to put behind us. I hope that if any good can possibly come out of the Sandusky criminal...
Read More(NB: This is a homily given once previously ten years ago, in 2001) Lesson: Ecclesiastes 3:18-22, Psalm 104: 10-30 (selections) It is my pleasure and honor to address you on this beautiful day. It is my first opportunity...
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