Ph.D. University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. Languages: Latin and French. Dissertation: "Love and the First Principles of St. Thomas's Natural Law." Director: Joseph Boyle, Ph.D. Degree awarded, 1988.

M.A. Niagara University, New York. Thesis: "Degrees of Immateriality in Sense Knowledge: An Exegesis of the Texts of Thomas Aquinas." Degree awarded, 1982.

B.S. State University of New York at Binghamton. Majors: Biochemistry and Political Science. Research in Immunology: "An Assay for Hemoglobin's Antibodies." Degree awarded, 1979.
 
 

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff; Assistant Professor, 1989-91.

University of St. Thomas, Houston; part-time, 1983-84.  
 

I: BOOKS-IN-PROGRESS

Which Natural Law--If Any? (under review)

The Church and Gender (in progress)

John Paul II and the Vocation of Professional Women. Edited with Deborah Savage (under revision)

 II: ARTICLES-IN-PROGRESS

"Prudence and the Natural Law: Love's Reconciliation" (under review)

"Towards a Christian Philosophy of Gender" (under review)

"Aquinas on the Love Obligations" (under review)

"Personalist Natural Law as John Paul II's Contribution to the Natural Law Tradition" (in progress)

"Dictating Moral Choice: Love or Freedom? (in progress)

"Neural Intentionality, and the Indispensability of Immateriality" (under revision)

"The Parameters of Personalist Feminism" (in progress)

III: PUBLICATIONS  *** indicates refereed

"Compassion and the Personalism of American Jurisprudence: Bioethical Entailments," in  Bioethics ed. Christopher Tollefson, forthcoming

"Juridical Prudence and the Toleration of Evil: Aquinas and John Paul II," University of St. Thomas Law Journal 4 #1 (2006): 25-46.

"Suffering and Politics: The Need for Transcendence" (forthcoming)

"Tolerance, Society and the First Amendment: Reconsiderations," University of St. Thomas Law Journal 3 #1 (2005): 75-91.

"The True Source of Parental Obligations," Life and Learning XIV: 219-224 [The 2004 Proceedings of the Fourteenth University Faculty of Life Conference] Ed. Joseph Koterski, S.J.]

"Priesthood and the Masculinity of Christ," in the internet newsletter Godspy (10.15.03) @ http://www.godspy.com/reviews/Priesthood-and-the-Masculinity-of-Christ.cfm

"On Ordaining Women," Correspondence in First Things 135 (August/September 2003): 2-11.

***"Equality, Gender and John Paul II," Logos 5:3 (2002): 111-130.

"Are the Love Precepts Really Natural Law's Primary Precepts?"  ACPA Proc. LXVI (1992): 45-71.

"Rediscovering Eudaimonistic Teleology," The Monist 75, 1 (Jan. 1992): 71-83.

"The 'Feminism' of Aquinas' Natural Law: Relationships, Love and New Life," in Abortion: A New Generation of Catholic Responses. Ed. Stephen Heaney. Braintree, MA: Pope John XXIII Center, 1992, pp. 237-242.

***"Aquinas and Natural Human Fulfillment: Inconsistencies?" ACPA Proc. LXV (l991): 215-233.

***"Natural Inclinations and Moral Absolutes: A Mediated Correspondence for Aquinas," ACPA Proc. LXIV (l990): 130-50. (The 1990 ACPA Machette Award)

"Love: The Heart of Christian Life," Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute, Vol. 3 (1990): 101-124.

***"The Paradox of Aquinas' Altruism: From Self-Love to Love of Others," ACPA Proc. LXIII (l989): 72-84.

Book Review of Hugo Meynell's Freud, Marx, and Morals, The Canadian Catholic Review, 3 (1985), 31.

"A Philosophical Critique of the Brain Death Movement," Linacre Quarterly, 49 (1982): 240-247.

"Make Your Own Man (Possibilities in Genetic Manipulation)," SUNY-Binghamton's Science Journal 1 (1978): 4-5.
 

IV: PRESENTATIONS  **** invited papers

"The Contribution of Wojtyla's Personalism to Natural Law," Humanae Vitae: The Person and the Thought of John Paul II. St. Paul Seminary, June 2008.

"The Blessed Mother as the Warrior Philosopher," Theology on Tap. St. Paul. April 2008.

"Reconsidering Capital Punishment from the Catholic Perspective," Good Shepherd Parish. Golden Valley. Feb. 2008.

"Blessed Virgin Mary: The Model of Femininity," Cathedral of St. Paul, January 2008 and St. Joseph's Parish, May 2008.

"Fides et Ratio: The Major Points," The Vocation of Teaching Undergraduate Ethics. St. Paul. June 2007.

"Contemplation as the Key to Integration," Reclaiming the Integrated Life: How Does Catholic Social Thought Counsel Women in the Professions. Beyond Careers to Callings. St. Paul. June 2007.

"Was Ayn Rand Inconsistent in Upholding a Right to Suicide?" Friday Afternoon Argument Session. St. Paul. April 2007.

"Moral and Practical Rationality." Connecting with the Catholic Philosophical Tradition. St. Paul. January 2007.

"Feminism and Catholic Social Thought," Recasting Catholic Social Thought: Bringing Women's Issues and Contributions to the Forefront. St. Paul. June 2006.

"On Prudence Allen's 'Can Feminism Be Humanism?'" Recasting Catholic Social Thought: Bringing Women's Issues and Contributions to the Forefront. St. Paul. June 2006.

"On Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's 'Equality, Difference, and the Practical Problems of a New Feminism,'" Recasting Catholic Social Thought. St. Paul. June 2006.

"On Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Mary: The Church at the Source," Recasting Catholic Social Thought. St. Paul. June 2006.

"Juridical Prudence: Wojtyla and Aquinas," Public Policy, Prudential Judgment and the Catholic Social Tradition. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy. Spring 2006.

"Suffering and Transcendence," University of St. Thomas Conference in Houston on Suffering and Hope, Fall 2005.

"Towards a Philosophy of Gender,"  Fides et Ratio. UST Catholic Studies Workshop, Summer 2005.

"Tolerance, Society and the Establishment Clause,"  Fides et Iustitia. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy. Spring 2005.

"Catholics and the 2004 Election," Panel Discussion for Catholic Studies. Fall 2004.

"Pro-life Feminism: A Contradiction in Terms?" Human Life Alliance Conference, Fall 2004.

"Controversial Issue: The Church, Politics and You," St. Joseph's Parish, Fall 2004.

"The Pied Piper of Parental Obligations: Commentary on Dr. Peach's "Parental Obligations," Annual Convention of the University Faculty for Life, 2004.

"Reflections on Centesimus Annus and the Juridical/Political Parameters of Vocation and Feminism." John Paul II and the Vocation of the Professional Woman. Spring 2004.

"Controversial Issue: Suffering, Medicine and the Time to Die," St. Joseph's Parish, Spring 2004.

"Controversial Issue: Sex, God and Virginity," St. Joseph's Parish, Spring 2004.

"Modern Biology Meets Aquinas and Vice Versa," 2003 Summer Workshop: Philosophy in a New Key.

"Pro-Life Feminism,"  Midwest Collegiate Pro-life Conference, 2002.

"Aquinas on the Obligations of Love in Charity and Natural Law," Society of Christian Philosophy, 2002.

"Love and Rights: A Medieval Reconciliation," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2001.

"Against the Impossibility and Implausibility of Thomistic Natural Law," Minnesota Philosophical Society, 2000.

"Fides et Ratio: Recovery of Natural Law,"  Diocese of Portland, Oregon, Dec. 1999.

"Discovering Moral Values,"  University of St. Thomas' Philosophy Colloquium, March 1999.

"On the Vocation of  Woman in the Church," Engaging Truth Discussion Forum, Center for Catholic Studies, Dec. 1998.

"Against MacIntyre's Metaethical Perspectivism," Minnesota Philosophical Society, Oct. 1998

****"The Love of God as the Primary Principle of Eudaimonic Happiness," Second Annual Aquinas Lecture, West Liberty State College, April 1998.

****"Natural Law and Love: Transcendent Self-Love and Justice," American Maritain Society. March 1994.

"Self-evidence and the Good," International Medieval and Renaissance Congress. Kalamazoo, May 1994.

"The Logic of Aquinas's Natural Law," Society of Christian Philosophers. California, January 1993.

****Plenary Keynote Paper for the 1992 Annual Convention of the American Catholic Philosophical Association: "Are the Love Precepts Really Natural Law's Primary Precepts?" Also published in ACPA Proc. LXVI (1992): 45-71.

****"Sailing with Aquinas Between the Syclla and Charybdis of Christian Love," International Thomist Society. Boston, Spring 1991.

****"The Just War Theory," Keynote Address for "Christian Perspectives on the Middle East." Sponsored by Flagstaff Ministerial Association, Spring 1991.

****"Love: The Heart of Christian Life." Wethersfield Conference. New York, September l990. Also published in Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute, Vol. 3 (1990): 101-124.

"Personal Identity and the Metaphysics of Death," University of Northern Arizona Colloquium. Flagstaff, Spring 1989.

"Natural Inclinations and Moral Absolutes," University of St. Thomas Colloquium. St. Paul, 1988.

****"The Catholic Challenge in a Sex Oriented Society," St. Helena's Church, Minneapolis, 1987.

"Thomistic Truths Substantiating Empirical Science," Center for Thomistic Studies Colloquium. Houston, l984.
 

V: SIENA SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS

2007: Reclaiming the Integrated Life: How Does Catholic Social Thought Counsel Women in the Professions?

2006: Recasting Catholic Social Thought: Bringing Women's Issues and Contributions to the Forefront

2005: Vocation and the Theotokos

2004: John Paul II and the Vocation of the Professional Woman