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Theology of the Body in Context:
Genesis and Growth

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CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE AND THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH by Prof. William E. May

Pope John Paul II's Encyclical: Veritatis Splendor


MARRIAGE: A PERSON-AFFIRMING, LOVE-ENABLING, LIFE-GIVING, AND SANCTIFYING REALITY


MARRIAGE: A COMMON ENDEAVOR

CONTRACEPTION, GATEWAY TO THE CULTURE OF DEATH

THE VOCATION OF A CATHOLIC TEACHER/SCHOLAR

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RIGHT AND A LIBERTY

The Mission of Fatherhood: “To Reveal and Relive on Earth the Very Fatherhood of God” (cf. Familiaris consortio, 25).


BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

POPE JOHN PAUL II’S ENCYCLICAL VERITATIS SPLENDOR AND BIOETHICS

PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND EVANGELIUM VITAE

MARRIAGE AND THE COMPLEMENTARITY OF MALE AND FEMALE

Leon Kass and the Challenge of Bioethics

BIOETHICS AND THEOLOGY: HOW ARE THEY RELATED?

THE CHURCH'S MORAL TEACHING, HOLINESS, AND PERSONAL VOCATION

HOLINESS AND ORDINARY LIFE IN THE TEACHING OF SAINT JOSÉMARÍA ESCRIVÁ

THE “NEW” EVANGELIZATION, CATHOLIC MORAL LIFE IN LIGHT OF VERITATIS SPLENDOR, AND THE FAMILY

THE COMMUNION OF PERSONS IN MARRIAGE AND THE CONJUGAL ACT

On the Impossibility of Same-Sex Marriage

PROCLAIMING THE CHURCH'S TEACHING ON MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF BIRTH CONTROL AND DISSENT

CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ITS "FULFILLMENT" OF THE NATURAL MORAL LAW

What Is a Human Person and Who Counts as a Human Person?:
A Crucial Question for Bioethics

THE "GOOD OF THE SPOUSES" AND MARRIAGE AS A VOCATION TO HOLINESS

FREE CHOICE, BAPTISM, AND THE CHRISTIAN MORAL LIFE

The Scriptures, Human Sexuality and Sexual Morality,
and Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of The Body”

CHARLES E. CURRAN’S GROSSLY INACCURATE ATTACK ON
THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF JOHN PAUL II

POPE JOHN PAUL II AND BIOETHICS:
BODILY LIFE AS INTEGRAL TO THE HUMAN PERSON

CARING FOR PERSONS IN THE “PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE” AND POPE JOHN PAUL II’S MARCH 20 2004 ADDRESS “ON LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENTS AND THE VEGETATIVE STATE”

ANTHROPOLOGY AND MORALITY: BODILY LIFE AS A GOOD INTRINSIC TO PERSONS AND THE ABSOLUTE INVIOLABILITY OF INNOCENT HUMAN LIFE

LOVE BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN: THE EPITOME OF LOVE

Karol Wojtyla's Love and Responsibility: a summary

SUMMARY OF CATHOLIC TEACHING ON HUMAN SEXUALITY

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL VISION OF HUMANAE VITAE
by Karol Wojtyla Translated by William E. May

The Cultural and Ecclesial Situation 1964 to 1967
paving the way for Dissent from Church Teaching on Contraception

POPES JOHN PAUL II AND BENEDICT XVI ON CONSCIENCE
AS
ANAMNESIS

ON BEING A BURDEN TO ONE’S FAMILY, ESPECIALLY
ONE’S SPOUSE AND CHILDREN


Does Everyone Have a Personal Vocation?

The Blessings of a Large Family

THE KEY ROLE OF JOHN C. FORD, S.J. AND GERMAIN GRISEZ IN THE COMPOSITION OF HUMANAE VITAE

“Reducing” Pregnancies and “Wanting” Children

C. S. LEWIS’S ABOLITION OF MAN, THE ENSLAVEMENT OF MAN,  “MAKING” HUMAN BABIES, AND THE “FREE SPERM DONOR REGISTRY” 

THE PROPER PLACE OF CONJUGAL LOVE IN THE STRUCTURE OF MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO GAUDIUM ET SPES
FRANCISCO GIL HELLIN
TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM E. MAY

Summary of Screwtape Letters

C. S. LEWIS’S The Abolition of Man

Peace, Snakes and Death



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Student Papers

The Nuptial Wounding of Marriage: St. Augustine’s Thought on the Effects of Original Sin on Marriage by Rev. J. Brian Bransfield

Rebuilding the Moat Around the Castle of Chastity by Colleen McGuigan

The Technical Child: In Vitro Fertilization and the Personal Subject By Kathleen Curran Sweeney

The Christological and Ecclesiological Dimensions of Moral Theolgy:
An Overview of Livio Melina’s
Sharing in Christ’s Virtues
by
Rev. Brian P. Christensen

Created in Whose Image? by Katherine H. Bergman

Welcoming the Baby at Birth: A Personalist Analysis of Natural vs. Medicalized Childbirth by Sarah Smith Bartel

Feminism and Abortion by C. Randolph Clark

MAKING MEN DISPENSABLE: BIOTECHNOLOGY, THE MEDIA, AND THE FATE OF THE MALE by Elizabeth Pietropaoli

The Risks to the Life and Health of Children Conceived using Assisted Reproductive Technologies by Patrick Carr

Beyond Recognition: Terminal Illness, Continual Gift
by Ann Hanincik

Hope for Healing:  Miscarriage and the Dignity of the Human Body
Andrew J. Sodergren, M.S.

Contraception: Anti-Life and Anti-Woman by Kelly Shircliff

The Wholly Family Beginnings of Life:
Child, Woman, Man and the Success of Procreation

by Michael Phelan

Causes of Homosexuality: A Christian Appraisal of the Data
by Andrew J. Sodergren, M.S.

Catholic Health Care Providers and
the Issue of Emergency Contraception:
Offering Compassion and Truth
in Cases of Rape and Sexual Assault
by Kara A. Crawford

At the Heart of Things: Anguish Transformed by Love
The Redemption of Human Sexuality and the Mentally Disabled
by M. Ellen Roderick

Community: Context and Fruit of Chastity by Susan Shaughnessy

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