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Concepts

Veritatis Splendor, Commonweal, Oct. 1993 [PDF]

Natural Law in Veritatis Splendor, L'Osservatore Romano, Jan 1994 [PDF]

Moral Methodologies: Proportionalism, Ethics and Medics, June 1994

Natural Law and Personalism in Veritatis Splendor Chpt 13 of Veritatis Splendor: American Responses eds. Michael E. Allsopp and John J. O'Keefe, 1995.

The Moral Vision of the Catechism, from Evangelizing for the Third Millennium: The Maynooth Conference on the New Catechism May 1996, eds Maurice Hogan SSC and Thomas J. Norris (1997)

Rights, the Person and Conscience in the Catechism, Dossier, Jan/Feb 1997.

Veritatis Splendor, Proportionalism, and Contraception, Irish Theological Quarterly, 1998

Review of Anthony Lisska, Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction, ACPQ, 1998 [PDF]

Aquinas's Natural Law Theory and Homosexuality, from Homosexuality and American Public Life, ed. Christopher Wolfe, 1999.

Moral Terminology and Proportionalism, from Recovering Nature : Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny eds. Thomas Hibbs and John O'Callaghan, 1999.

Natural Law and Sexual Ethics, from Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law, ed. Edward B. McLean, 2000.

Faith As A Preamble to Reason, [PDF] from John Paul II: Witness to Truth (Proceedings from the Twenty-Third Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Sept. 22-23, 2000), ed. By Kenneth D. Whitehead (2001).

Reclaiming or Rewriting the Tradition?, Discussion article of Jean Porter's Natural and Divine Law, ACPQ, 2001

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Medical

The Vocation of Marriage and the Vatican Document on Bioethics [PDF] International Review of Natural Family Planning, Fall 1987

Introduction to the Vatican Instruction on Bioethics, [PDF] Reproductive Technologies, Marriage, and the Church, 1988 (and other books).

The Health of Nations: What America Can Learn from Other Countries about Abortion and Divorce, Review of Mary Ann Glendon's Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, [PDF] Crisis, April 1990

Moral Character & Abortion, [PDF], Chapter 12 in Abortion: A New Generation of Catholic Responses ed. by Stephen J. Heaney, 1992

Fetal Rights, [PDF] entry in the Encyclopedia of Biblical and Christian Ethics ed. by R.K. Harrison (1992)

Life Issues in A Pluralistic Culture [PDF], Laywitness, Jan/Feb 1992.

The Connection Between Contraception & Abortion, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, April 1993 [PDF]

Children: The Supreme Gift of Marriage, [PDF] Chapter 8 in Faith and Challenges to the Family ed. Russell Smith, 1994

The Pre-Eminence of Autonomy in Bioethics [PDF] in Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (edited by David Oderberg and Jacqueline A. Laing), 1997.

Sterilizations Reconsidered [PDF], Christian Bioethics, 1998.

Reproductive Technologies, article in Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia Catholic of Catholic Doctrine ed. by Russell Shaw, 1998 [PDF]

Faith As A Preamble to Reason, [PDF] from John Paul II: Witness to Truth (Proceedings from the Twenty-Third Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Sept. 22-23, 2000), ed. By Kenneth D. Whitehead (2001). [Material on abortion]

The Gift of Life, Address, May 2001 [PDF]

Excess Embryos & The Twilight Zone, 2002.

Review of Eugene Diamond, A Catholic Guide to Medical Ethics: Catholic Principles in Medical Practice, NCBQ, 2002 [PDF]

Review of William E. May, Catholic Bioethics & Gift of Life, ACPQ, 2002 [PDF]

Cloning Destroys Human Beings Rather Than Saving Them, Credo, Jan 2002 [PDF]

Bioethics & Sexuality Syllabus, Winter 2004 [PDF, with links to material]

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Contraception

"Humanae Vitae: A Prophetic Document?", in Crisis, Sept. 1988

The Stale and Stalled Debate on Contraception, Catholic World Report, November 1993

The Moral Use of Natural Family Planning in Why Humanae Vitae was Right: a Reader by Janet E. Smith, 1993

Barnyard Morality, America, August 1994

Review of Turning Point by Robert McClory, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Feb. 1996

Contraception, Natural Family Planning: entries [PDF] in Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia Catholic of Catholic Doctrine ed. by Russell Shaw, 1998

Veritatis Splendor, Proportionalism, and Contraception, Irish Theological Quarterly, 1998

Artificial vs. Natural?, First Things, December 1998 [PDF]

Contraception: It's about a Whole Lot More than Prevention [PDF] Be Magazine, Nov-Dec. 2000

Promoting Humanae Vitae and Natural Family Planning [PDF] Homiletic and Pastoral Review, July 2002

Humanae Vitae: Heroic, Deficient or Both? Janet Smith Comments, [PDF] Latin Mass Magazine, Winter 2002

Humanae Vitae: A Challenge To Love [summary & defence], 2003.

Same-Sex Marriage and Its Relation With Contraception

The Wild and the Tame, Human Life International Newsletter

Premarital Sex, Sacerdos

"Contraception: Why Not", Transcript. Video & Audio tape available

A Generation Later Introduction to Smith's own translation of Humanae Vitae

"Interview on Zenit on Contraception and Same Sex Marriages", October 2003

Humanae Vitae: A Challenge To Love [summary & defence], 2003.

Promoting Humanae Vitae & Natural Family Planning in the Parish, 2004.

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Sexual

The Vocation of Marriage and the Vatican Document on Bioethics [PDF] International Review of Natural Family Planning, Fall 1987

The Health of Nations: What America Can Learn from Other Countries about Abortion and Divorce, Review of Mary Ann Glendon's Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, [PDF], Crisis, April 1990

The Christian View of Sex: A Time for Apologetics, Not Apologies, The Family in America, May 1996 [PDF]

The Connection Between Contraception & Abortion, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, April 1993

John Paul II and the Family: The Family: a Communion of Persons, in A Celebration of the Thought of John Paul II, ed. by Gregory R. Beabout St. Louis, 1998 [PDF]

Entries in Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia Catholic of Catholic Doctrine ed. by Russell Shaw, 1998 [all PDF]

Aquinas's Natural Law Theory and Homosexuality, from Homosexuality and American Public Life, ed. Christopher Wolfe, 1999.

Parenting: A School of Virtue, Canticle, Summer 1999 [PDF]

The Family as a School of Love, Faith 33:2, Mar-April 2001 [PDF]

"Interview on Zenit on Contraception and Same Sex Marriages", October 2003

Bioethics & Sexuality Syllabus, Winter 2004 [PDF, with links to material]

Same-Sex Marriage and Its Relation With Contraception

Premarital Sex, Sacerdos

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Political/Social

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Other

Bloom and Catholic Books Education, from Catholic Higher Education: Proceedings of the eleventh Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars ed. Paul L. Williams, 1989 [PDF]

Feminism, Motherhood, and the Church, [PDF] from The Catholic Woman: Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute ed. by Ralph McInerny, 1991

The Laywoman in the Church, [PDF] from The Mind and Heart of the Church: Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute ed. by Ralph McInerny, 1992

Pope John Paul II, Feminists, Women, and the Church, Catholic Dossier, Nov/Dec 1995.

Review of Babette's Feast, UD Rostrum 4:1, Spring 1996 [PDF]

The Fatherhood of God, Conference Paper, 2000 [PDF]

Are there limits to Voyeurism? , Saint Austin Review, October 2001 [PDF], Speech given for Act One Writing For Hollywood

The Wake of Vatican II, Dossier, Dec 2000.

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