CURRICULUM VITAE

Academic Positions

• 1992-present, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, Bronx, New York.
• 1994-present, Editor-in-Chief, International Philosophical Quarterly.
• 1994-present, Faculty-in-Residence, Queens Court Residential College.
• 1996-2001, Director of the M.A. Program in Philosophical Resources.
• 1999-2010, Co-editor, Fordham University Press Series in Moral Philosophy and Theology.
• 2002-2005, Chair of the Philosophy Department, Fordham University.

• 1977-1982 -- Instructor at St. Louis University.
• 1982-1984 --Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
• 1986-1988 -- Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland.
• 2006 (Summer) -- Visiting Lecturer, Mater Dei Regional Seminary, Guam.
• 2008 (Winter Quarter) --Bannan Fellow, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
• 2008 (Trinity Term) -- Visiting Professor, Blackfriars, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
• 2011 (Summer) -- Consultant to the Dept. of Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, HK

Education

• S.T.L. (1993). Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Thesis: "Natural Law and the Book of Wisdom", Director: Fr. R. Clifford, S.J.
• M.Div. (1991). Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massaschusetts.
• Ph.D. (1982). Philosophy, St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri  Dissertation: "Karl Jaspers on Truth and Freedom in Science," Director: Dr. James Collins.
• M.A. (1980). Philosophy, St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Thesis: "Aristotle's Ethics and Reflective Equilibrium" Director: Dr. W. Charron.
• H.A.B. (1976). Classical Languages, Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, summa cum laude.
  

Memberships

• Academy of Catholic Theology (member since 2009).
• American Catholic Philosophical Assocation (member since 1980, member of the Executive Council, 1998-2001).
• American Maritain Association (member since 1980, member of the Executive Committee, 1995-1998).
• American Philosophical Association (member since 1980).
• Apostleship of Prayer (member of Board of Directors since 1997, President of the Board 2001-2011).
• Cardinal Newman Society, Advisory Board (member since 1994).
• Center for Thomas More Studies, University of Dallas (Fellow 2006-2009, Senior Fellow 2009 to present).
• Education Parish Service (member of the Board of Trustees 2006-2011).
• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (member since 1982, Member of the Board since 2002, President 2008-2014).
• Homeland Foundation (member of the Board 2013--present, President 2014--present).
• ITEST -- Institute for Theological Encounters with Science & Technology (1980-2002).
• International St. Thomas Society (member since1996, President since 2008).
• Jesuit Philosophical Association (member since 1986, Secretary-Treasurer 2001-2013, President 2013-2014).
• Knights of Columbus (since 2001, fourth degree).
• Linacre Quarterly (Editorial Advisory Board, 2009 -- present).
• Metaphysical Society of America (member since 1995, Councilor 2000-2003).
• National Association of Scholars (2014--present).
• New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (2014 -- present).
• North American Jaspers Society (member 1982-2004, Secretary-Treasurer 1994-99, President 1999-2002).
• Phi Beta Kappa (Secretary of the Fordham Chapter, Tau of New York; Vice-President of the Middle Atlantic District 2012-2015, President of the Middle Atlantic District 2015-2018).
• Sacred Heart Institute, Huntington NY (Board of Governors, 2013-2016).
• Society of Catholic Social Scientists (member 2013-- present, Board of Advisors 2013-2016).
• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (member since 1982).
• University Faculty for Life (member since 1991, editor of the annual proceedings since 1992, member of the Board of Directors since 1993; Treasurer 1997-2006; Secretary since 2006, member of the Advisory Board for Long Island Chapter since 2001). 

Boards of Higher Educational Institutions

• Belmont Abbey College (Gastonia NC), Board of Trustees (2010-2015)
• Gonzaga University (Spokane WA), Board of Trustees (1998-2010)
• International Catholic University, Board of Directors(2011--present)
• Immaculate Conception Seminary (Huntington NY), Board of Governors (2011-2015)

Academic Recognition

• Alpha Sigma Nu, elected 1974, President of Xavier Chapter 1975-76.
• Joseph Verkamp Greek Award, 1975.
• Archbishop McNicholas Philosophy Prize, 1976.
• John Zurancik Award for General Excellence in the study of Classical Languages, 1976.
• Ragland Latin Medal, 1976.
• Danforth Fellowship, Class of 1976.
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1982.
• ACPA Machette Prize, 1983.
• Massachusetts Bible Society/Weston School of Theology,  Award for Excellence in Scriptural Studies, 1991.
• Fordham Faculty Fellowship for Summer 1997.
• Undergraduate Teaching Award, presented at the Faculty Day Dinner of Fordham College, February 7, 1998.
• Graduate Teacher of the Year Award, presented at the Commencement Ceremony, May 20, 2000, by the Fordham University Graduate Student Association.
• Fordham Faculty Fellowship, 2001-2002.
• Fordham Faculty Fellowship, 2007-2008.
• John Cardinal Wright Award, Bishop's Latin School Alumni Association, 2008.
• Maritain Medal for Scholarly Excellence, American Maritain Association, 2008.
• Robert M. Byrn Award from the Fordham Respect Life Club, 2009.
• Society for Catholic Social Scientists, Award for Life Contributions to the Cause of Life, 2012.
• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Founders Award, 2015.

Publications

Monograph:

An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: Basic Concepts (Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

Edited Books:

• Associate editor of the New Catholic Encyclopedia and area editor of New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Cengage Gale, 2013).
• Editor of Life and Learning, Annual Proceedings of the University Faculty for Life (Washington, D.C.: University Faculty for Life, annual volumes beginning in 2002).
• Co-editor (with Ron Begley), Medieval Education (Bronx NY: Fordham University Press, 2005).
• Co-editor (with John Conley, S.J.), Culture and Creed (Philadelphia PA: St Joseph's University Press, 2004). 
• Co-editor (with David Ruel Foster), The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et Ratio (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003).
• Co-editor (with Raymond J. Langley), Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy (Amherst, NY: Humanity Press, 2003.
• Co-editor (with John J. Conley, S.J.), Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Teaching of Pope John Paul II (New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1999).

Articles:

• "Thomas More and the Prayer for Detachment," Moreana 52 (2015): 61-82.
• "Biographies and Autobiographies: Lives of and by the Saints" -- a series of articles in The Brandsma Review. Part I: St. Therese of Lisieux (2015). Part II: St. Augustine's Confessions. (2015).
• "Jesuit Ethics," Presidnetial Address in Proceedings of the Jesuit Philosophical Association, ed. Henry Gensler, S.J. (Chicago IL: Jesuit Philosophical Association, 2016): TBA.
• "Carpaccio's Mysterious Painting," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly (2015): TBA.
• "Dante and Eschatology," Proceedings of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, vol. 37, ed. Elizabeth Shaw (Notre Dame IN: Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 2015), pp. 75-89.
• "Forword" for Aquinas and the Sciences by Gerard Verschuuren (Angelico Press, TBA).
• “The Concept of Nature: Philosophical Reflections in Service of Theology,” chapter 4 in in Theology Needs Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Ralph McInerny, ed. Matthew Lamb (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, TBA), pp. TBA.
• "Nature as a Source for Ethics" in Jesuits and Philosophy,, ed. Joao Vila-Cha (Braga, Portugal: RPF, forthcoming).
• "Remember the Sabbath Day, To Keep It Holy: Kieslowski's Decalogue Three" in Dialogue and Disquiet: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Krzystof Kieslowski's Decalog, edited by Eva Badowska and Francesca Parmeggiani (Bronx NY: Fordham University Press, 2016), pp. TBA.
• "Telling the Truth by Stories: C.S. Lewis on Love as Passion and as Virtue," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 37/3-4 (2014): 9-18.
• "Stories Are Not Enough: The Church's Choice to Make Use of Greek Philosophy," Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 37/2 (2014): 4-11.
• "A Thought about Evangelization," Inter Nos (Newark NY: Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, 2013), pp. 5-10.
• "Just War and the Common Good,” Nova et Vetera 10/4 (2012): 1031-1048.
• “Christopher Dawson on Europe’s Inheritance,” The Brandsma Review 21/2 (2012): 4-6.
• “Human Nature from a Catholic Perspective” in Two Views of Social Justice: A Catholic/Georgist Dialogue, ed. Kenneth R. Lord, The American Journal of Economics and
  Sociology (Malden MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), pp. 113-43.
  
• "Papal Call to Stiffen Our Upper Lips,” The Brandsma Review 20/1 (Jan.-Feb. 2011): 9-11.
• "Augustinian Views on Memory as an Aid in Reading The Tempest" in Tolle lege: Essays on Augustine and Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland J. Teske, S.J., edited by Richard C. Taylor,
  David Twetten, and Michael Wreen (Milwaukee WI: Marquette Univ. Press, 2011), 115-35.
• "Circe's Beasts and the Image of God: More's Creative Appropriation of Pico's Humanist Spirituality" 47 (2010): 45-62.
• "A Reading Guide to Natural Law Ethics" in Ressourcement Thomism: Essays in Honor of Romanus Cessario, O.P., edited by Matthew Levering and Reinhard Hutter (forthcoming).
• The Status of Personalism in Catholic Moral Thinking Today" - Dunwoodie Review 32 (2009): 241-59
• "Society and the Formation of Free Persons" in Yves R. Simon: The Call of Philosophy (Texts with Commentaries), edited by Michael Torre (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming).

• "Jaspers on Truth and Freedom" in Companion to Karl Jaspers, edited by Gregory J. Walters (Amherst NY: Humanity Press, forthcoming).
• "Aquinas on the Sacrament of Marriage" in Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments, edited by Mtthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais (Chicago IL: Hillenbrand Books, 2009), pp. 102-13.
• "Taking a Catholic View on Academic Freedom" in The Enduring Nature of the Catholic University: Commemorating the Anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's Address to Catholic Educators on April 27, 2008 (Manassas VA: The Cardinal Newman Society, 2009), pp. 43-49.
• "In Memoriam - Msgr. William B. Smith" in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 32/1 (2009): 2-3.
• "W. Norris Clarrke, S.J. (1915-2008)" in Horizontes Existenciarios da Filosofia Soren Kierkegaard and Philosophy Today. Braga, Portugal: RPF, VIII (2008): 1342-44.
• "Free Choice of the Will in Part IV of Dialgoue concerning Heresies" in Thomas More Studies 3 (2008): 41-48.
• "Remembering Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J." President's letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quaterly 31/4 (2008): 2-4.
• "Theological Reflections on Natural Family Planning" in Nova et Vetera 6/4 (2008): 765-77.
• "In Memoriam - Fr. W. Norris Clarke, S.J. (1915-2008)" in International Philosophical Quarterly 48/3 (2008): 285-87.
• "Testimonial to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J." in Nova et Vetersa 6/2 (2008):247-51.
• "Calderon's La vida es un sueno" in St. Austin Review 8/1 (2008): 15-17.
• "More's Reflections on Complicity with Evil in The History of King Richard III" in Thomas More Studies 2 (2007): 53-62.
• "Non-Negotiable Principles of Christian Politics" in Inside Fordham 29/15 (June 29, 2007): 5.
• "The Four Senses of Scripture" in The Brandsma Review 16/2 (2007): 14-16.
• "The Use of Philosophical Principles in Catholic Social Thought: The Case of Gaudium et Spes" in The Journal of Catholic Legal Studies (St. John's University Law Review) 45/2 (2007): 277-92.
• "Failed Politician? Saintly Statesman? Faithful Conscience!" in Thomas More Studies 1 (2006): 138-51.
• "The Use of Philosophical Principles in Catholic Social Teaching" in Proceedings of the Jesuit Philosophical Association 66 (2005): 41-50.
• "Philosophy and Catholic Social Teaching" in The Seminary Journal 11/1 (2005): 42-46.
• "Introduction" (with Ron Begley) in Medieval Education, edited by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Ron Begley (Bronx NY: Fordham University Press, 2005), pp. ix-xvii.
• "The Doctrine of Participation in Aquinas's Commentary on St. John" in Being and Thought in Aquinas, edited by Jeremiah Hackett, William Murnion, and Carl Still (Binghamton NY: Global Academic Publ., 2004), pp. 109-21.
• "Boethius and the Theological Origins of the Concept of Person" in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78/2 (2004): 203-24.
• "Thomas More" in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, edited by Jonathan DeWald (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004).
• "Singing the Beatitudes" in the Dante issue of St. Austin Review 4/3 (May/June 2004): 20-23.
• "Jaspers on the Idea of the University" in Karl Jaspers’ Philosophie: Gegenw ärtigkeit und Zukunft / Karl Jaspers's Philosophy: Rooted in the Present, Paradigm for the Future, edited by Richard Wisser and Leonard H. Ehrlich (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2003), pp. 241-48.
• Thomas More on Conscience" in Thomas More: Spiritual Writings (New York NY: Vintage Press, 2003), pp. xi-xxix.
• "Karl Jaspers on Philosophy of Religion: His Treatment of Anselm and Cusa" in Karl Jaspers on the History of Philosophy and Philosophy of History, edited by Raymond Langley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Amherst NY: Humanity Press, 2003), pp. 130-40.
• "The Challenge to Metaphysics" in Fides et Ratio in The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et ratio, edited by David Ruel Foster and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003), pp. 22-35.
• "Fides et ratio and Biblical Wisdom Literature" in The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et ratio, edited by David Ruel Foster and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003), pp. 129-62.
• "The Study of Philosophy" in A Student’s Guide to the Liberal Arts, edited by Wilburn T. Stancil (Kansas City MO: Rockhurst University Press, 2003), pp. 180-95.
• "Why Authority is Such a Troubling Idea" in A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason, and the Human Good: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan,edited by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth Grasso (Wilmington DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002), pp.107-25.
• "Religion and Culture in Eliot's Wasteland" in Saint Austin Review 1/3 (Nov. 2001): 12-14.
• "Advice for Thomists" in The Maritain Notebook: The American Maritain Association Newsletter 9/2 (Fall 2001).
• "The New IGMR and Mass versus populum" (co-authored with Christopher Cullen, S.J.) in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 101/9 (June 2001): 51-54.
• "Introduction to the 2000 Edition" for The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers (Bronx NY: Fordham University Press, 2001), pp. vii-xxii.
• "Response to Robert P. George:  Natural Law, The Constitution, and the Theory and Practice of Judicial Review" in Fordham Law Review 69 (2001): 101-04.
• "How Jefferson Honored Religion in Crisis 19/3 (March 2001): 35.
• "The Arts and Authority: An Attempt to Apply Some Thoughts of Maritain on Authority and Democracy" in Beauty, Art, and the Polis, edited by Alice Ramos (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press and the American Maritain Association, 2000), pp .269-86.
• "An Introduction to the Thought of Pope John Paul II" in The Legacy of Pope John Paul II: His Contribution to Catholic Thought, edited by Geoffrey Gneuhs (New York NY: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000), pp. 13-37, and "Introduction" to the volume, pp. 7-11.
• "Response" to "Person, Community, Law, and Grace" by Arthur Madigan, S.J. in Prophecy and Diplomacy: The Moral Teaching of Pope John Paul II, edited by John J. Conley, S.J. and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. (Bronx NY: Fordham University Press, 1999), pp.111-14.
• "Education: Restoring the Goal of Development to the Idea of Learning" in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education, edited by Dan McInerny (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press and the American Maritain Association, 1999), pp.153-62.
• "On the Aristotelian Heritage of John of Damascus" in The Failure of Modernism: The Cartesian Legacy and Contemporary Pluralism, edited by Brendan Sweetman (Washington, D.C.: The American Maritain Association and Catholic University of America Press, 1999), pp. 58-71.
• "Jaspers on Realism and Idealism" in Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Karl Jaspers Gesellschaft 11 (1998): 58-69.
• "History of the Philosophy of Religion: from the thirteenth century to the twentieth century" in Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject, edited by Brian Davies, O.P.  (London: Cassell, 1998), pp. 12-21.
• "First, Do No Harm" in Celebrate Life 19/2 (March-April 1997): 46.
• "Unexpected Philosophical Progress: The Origins of the Concept of the Person" in Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Jesuit Philosophical Association, March 21, 1997, ed. Gary M. Gurtler, S.J. (Boston College: JPA, 1997), pp. 24-40.
• "Unreliable Tools" in Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy, edited by Roman T. Ciapalo (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association and The Catholic University of America Press, 1997), pp. 141-48.
• "The Doctrine of Immortality in the Old Testament" in Catholic Dossier 2:2 (1996): 44-48.
• "Recognizing One of Aquinas's Debts to Neoplatonism" in Aquinas on Mind and Intellect: New Essays, edited by Jeremiah Hackett. Dowling Studies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. (Dowling College Press, 1996), pp. 1-14.
• "C. S. Lewis and the Natural Law" in CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society  26/6 #306 (April 1995): 1-7.
• "Religion as the Root of Culture" in Christianity and Western Civilization: Christopher Dawson's Insights (San Francisco CA: Ignatius Press, 1995), pp. 15-35.
• "The Book of Wisdom as a Biblical Approach to Natural Law" in Freedom, Virtue and the Common Good, edited by Curtis L. Hancock and Anthony O. Simon (American Maritain Association and University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), pp.253-63.
• "Paul VI Was Right" (with Kevin Flannery, S.J.) in America 169/8 (Sept. 25, 1993): 7-11.
• "Mary, the Mother of Jesus" in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 92/4 (Jan. 1992): 21-26.
• "Sigrid Undset's World" in The Dawson Newsletter 10/4 (1992): 6-9.
• "The Doctrine of Participation in Thomistic Metaphysics" in The Future of Thomism, edited by Deal W. Hudson and Dennis W. Moran (American Maritain Association and University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), pp.185-96.
• "Introduction" to Understanding Europe by Christopher Dawson.  Reprinting of the 1951 volume.  (Fayetteville: Christian Cultural Press, 1991), pp. iii-vi.
• "Discerning the More Fruitful Paths to Reform: The Work of Pierre Favre in mid-Sixteenth-Century Germany" in The Heythrop Journal 31/4 (1990): 488-504.
• "Simon Schama and Christopher Dawson on the French Revolution" in The Dawson Newsletter 8/4 (Summer 1990): 1-4 and 9/1 (Fall 1990): 5-7.
• "Dante and Fourteenth-Century Messianic Expectations" in Thought 65 (March 1990): 47-58, and Introduction (as guest editor of this volume), pp.5-6.
• "Ignatian Spirituality and Baroque Culture" in The Dawson Newsletter 7/3 (Fall-Winter 1988-89): 9-12.
• "Jaspers on Freedom and Truth in Science" in Karl Jaspers Today: Philosophy at the Threshold of the Future, edited by Leonard H. Ehrlich and Richard Wisser (Washington, D.C.: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology and the University Press of America, 1988), pp. 133-52,
• "Kristin Lavransdatter: In-Laws and Out-Laws" in The Church and the Law, edited by Paul L. Williams (Scranton: Northeast Books, 1985), pp.69-75,
• "Religion and History in Maritain and Jaspers" in The Dawson Newsletter 3/2 (1984): 11-14 and 3/3 (1984): 93-10.
• "Freedom as a Condition for Truth: Jaspers on the Significance of Temporality in Science" in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 (1984): 93-103.
• "Certain Essentially Human Aspects of Intelligence," paper and discussion in the Proceedings of the ITEST Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (St. Louis MO: March 1984), pp. 38-43 et passim.
• "A Mystic's Epistemology: Truth and Freedom in the Thought of St. Bernard of Clairvaux" in the Proceedings of the Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference 8 (1983): 47-52.
• "Secularization or Christian Culture?" in The Dawson Newsletter 1/2 (1981): 1-4.
• "St. Augustine on the Moral Law" in Augustinian Studies 11 (1980): 65-77.
• "Aristotle on Signifying Definitions" in The New Scholasticism 54 (1980): 75-86.

Encyclopedia Articles:

• "Common Good" - entry in American Governance, ed. Stephen L. Schechtner (Detroit MI: Gale, 2016), TBA.
• "Natural Law" - entry in American Governance, ed. Stephen L. Schechtner (Detroit MI: Gale, 2016), TBA.
• "Thomism" - entry in Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource, ed. J. Britt Holbrook, vol. 4, 2nd ed. (Farmington HIlls MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2015): 366-70.
• "Aeterni Patris" -- revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 47048.
• "Anthropology, Philosophical" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 76-79.
• "Art, Classical Approaches to the Philosophy of" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 109-113.
• "Artificial Intelligence" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 127-128.
• "Astrology" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1., pp. 129-31.
• "Atomism, History of the Concept" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 131-36.
• "Augustinianism" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 138-46.
• "Authority" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 147-51.
• "Contingency" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 314-17.
• "Definition" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 358-59.
• "Emotion (Moral Aspects)" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 2., pp. 441-44.
• "First Principles of Philosophy" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 2, pp. 573-77.
• "History of Philosophy in the Western Tradition: Ancient Christian" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 2, pp. 679-84.
• "History of Philosophy in the Western Tradition: Medieval Christian, Jewish, Muslim" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 2, pp. 684-86.
• "History of Philosophy in the Western Tradition: Renaissance Christian, Jewish, Muslim" - revision of thearticle in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 2, pp. 686-92.
• "Laws of Thought" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 878-80.
• "Lying" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 943-48.
• "Materialism, Dialectical and Historical" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 967-70.
• "Matter and Form" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 976-81.
• "Methodology (Philosophical)" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 998-1003.
• "Mental Reservation" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 991-92.
• "Non-Being" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 1078-80.
• "Noumena" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 1085-86.
• "Personal Identity" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 1136-38.
• "Persons (in Scholastic Philosophy)" - revision of article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 3, pp. 1131-34.
• "Philosophy, Technical Terms in: Indentity Theory of Mind" -article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 1178-79.
• "Philosophy, Technical Terms in: Meaning" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, p. 1184.
• "Philosophy, Technical Terms in: Principle of Sufficient Reason" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, p. 1193.
• "Prudence" - revision of the article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 1272-76.
• "Relation, History of Philosophical Thinking on" - article in article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 1322-26.
• "Uncertainty Principle" - revision of thearticle in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 1580-81.
• "Vitalism" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, 4 vols. (Detroit MI: Gale, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 1625-26.
• "Dignitas Personae" - article in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, TBA, vol. 3, pp. TBA.
• "Theological Studies"- article in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, TBA, vol. 3, pp. TBA.
• "America Magazine" - article in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, ed. Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, TBA, vol. 3, pp. TBA.
  
• "Communism" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010, vol. 1, pp. 356-60.
• "Marxism" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010, vol. 2, pp. 713-17.
• "Ciszek, Walter J." - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010, vol.1, p. 340.
• "Ethics, History of" - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2009, vol. 1, pp. 281-309.
• "Rev. W. Norris Clarke, S.J." - article in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010, vol 1, pp. 340-42.
• "Neoscholasticism and Neothomism" in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2010, vol. 2, pp. 851-55.
• "Humani Generis" in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Electronic Edition, Supplement 2009, vol. 1, pp. 396-99.
• "Moral Theology, History of (Trends Since Vatican II)" in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2009, vol. 2, pp. 596-97.
• "Moral Theology, History of (20th Century Developments before Vatican II")" -- in New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2009, vol. 2, pp. 596-97.
• "Edwin Corwin," in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, edited by Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007).
• "Thought (the Journal)" in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, edited by Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007).
• "The Sacco-Vanzetti Case" in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, edited by Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007).
• "Thomism/Neo-Thomism" in Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, edited by Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli (Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007).
• "Personalism" in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Frohnen (Wilimington DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006), pp. 659-60.
• "Ralph McInerny" in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Frohnen (Wilimington DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006), pp. 560-61.
• "W. Norris Clarke, S.J." in Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, edited by John Shook (Bristol UK: Thoemmes Press, 2005).

Short Contributions to Newsletters, etc.

22. “Light on the Psalms from C.S. Lewis: A Chapter Summary of Reflections on the Psalms” – in The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society no. 468, 46/4 (2015): 20-21.

21. “In Memoriam: Tribute to Kenneth Gallagher” – in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 38/1-2 (2015): 56.

20. “The Upcoming Extraordinary Synod” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 37/1-2 (2014): 2-3.

19. “Reading the Pope” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 36/3 (2013): 2-4.

18. “Munus Petri,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 36/1-2 (2013): 2-4.

17. “The Right to Be Wrong,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 35/3-4 (2012): 2-4.

16. “The Year of Faith: Thinking with the Church,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 35/2 (2012): 2-3.

15. “New Initiatives of the Fellowship,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 35/1 (2012): 2-3.

14. “Reasons and Rules,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 34/4 (2011): 2-4.

13. “Faith and Prayer in the Life of Academics,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 34/3 (2011): 2-4.

12. “Thinking with the Church – Liturgically,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 34/2 (2011): 2-4.

11. “Two Friends of the Fellowship Elevated to the Cardinalate,” Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly  34/1 (2011): 6.

10. “Thinking about Apologetics” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 34/1 (2011): 2-4.

9. “Benedictine Style” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 33/4 (2010): 2-3.

8. “Fifty Years Since Vatican II” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 33/3 (2010): 2-4.

7. “In Memoriam: Tribute to Ralph McInerny” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 33/1-2 (2010): 4-5.

6. “Practical Theology and Practical Charity” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 32/4 (2009): 2-3.

5. “Going in Their Door” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 32/3 (2009): 2-3

4. “Choosing Our Projects” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 32/2 (2009): 2-3.

3. “In Memoriam – Msgr. William B. Smith” – President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 32/1 (2009): 2-3.

2.  “Remembering Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.,” President’s Letter in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 31/4 (2008): 2-4.

1. “The Senses of Scripture” in Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 31/2 (2008): 15-17.

Published Homilies and Reflections:

48. “Homily for May 4, 2015, Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

47. “Salvation and the Church” – Teaching the Faith, 4/4 (April 2015): 1-4.

46. “Homily for April 6, 2015 – Monday in the Octave of Easter” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org

45. “Homily for March 2, 2015 – Monday of the Second Week of Lent” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

44. “Homily for January 5, 2015 – Feast of the Presentation of the Lord” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

43. “Homily for January 5, 2015 – Monday after Epiphany” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

42. “Homily for December 1, 2014 – Monday of the First Week of Advent” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

41. “Homily of 3 November 2014, Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

40. “Marriage, Family, and the Extraordinary Synod” – for Teaching the Faith 3/10 (October 2014): 1-4.

39. “Homily for 1 September 2014, Monday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

38. “Homily for Monday, August 4, 2014, Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

37. “Homily for 7 July 2014, Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time”  on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

36.  “Homily for 7 April 2014, Monday of the Fifth Week in Lent” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.     

35. “Homily for 3 March 2014, Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

34. “Homily for 3 February 2014, Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.     

33. “Homily for January 6, 2014, Monday after Epiphany” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.      

32. “Church Unity” – for Teaching the Faith (January 2014).

31. “Homily for December 2, 2013, Monday of the First Week of Advent” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.    

30. “Homily for November 4, 2013, Feast of St. Charles Borromeo” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.   

29. “Homily for October 7, 2013, Feast of the Holy Rosary” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

28. “Homily for September 2, 2013, Monday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

27. “Homily for August 5, 2013, Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

26. “Homily for July 1, 2013,  Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

25. “Homily of June 3, 2013,  Memorial of Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs”  on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

24. “Homily for May 6, 2013, Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

23. “Homily for April 1, 2013, Monday in the Octave of Easter” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

22. “Homily for February 4, 2013" on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

21.  “Homily for January 7, 2013” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

20. “Homily for December 28, 2012” on the website for Sacred Heart Institute, at: www.cor-jesu.org.

19. “Homilies for the Sundays of December 2011” in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 111/12 (2011): 33-41.

18. “Homilies for the Sundays of July 2010” in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 110/9 (2010): 33-41.

17. “Reflections” in a volume dedicated to the Gospel of St. Matthew, ed. Peter John Cameron, O.P. (Magnificat, 2010), pp. 105-10.

16. “Homilies” for the Sundays of August 2009 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 109/10 (2009): 33-43.

15. “Waiting for the Lord in Silence” – for Magnificat (Advent 2009), pp. 44.

14. “Reflections for Lent 2009” for Magnificat (Lent 2009), pp. 14, 30, 51.

13. “Reflections” in Praying with Saint Paul, ed. Peter John Cameron, O.P. (Magnificat, 2008), pp. 92-103.

12. “Homilies” for the Sundays of February 2008 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 108/4 (2008): 33-44.

11. “Homilies” for the Sundays of January 2007 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 107/3 (2006): 33-45.

10. “Reflections for Lent” in Magnificat (Feb.-March 2005): 8-12.

9. “Homilies” for the Sundays of September 2004 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 104/11 (2004): 33-43.

8. “Homilies” for the Sundays of October 2003 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 103/11 (2003): 44-55.

7. “Homilies” for the Sundays of November 2002 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 103/1 (2002): 33-43.

6. “Homilies” for the Sundays and Feasts of June 2001 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 101/8 (2001): 33-44.

5. “The Word” – for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A in Catholic New York, Nov. 5, 1999.

4. “Homilies” for the Sundays of October 1998 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 98/11-12 (1998): 46-57.

3. “Homilies” for the Sundays of July 1997 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 97/9 (1997): 33-44.

2. “Homilies” for the Sundays of Nov. 1996 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 97/1 (1996): 33-43.

1. “Homilies” for the Sundays of June 1995 in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 95/8 (1995): 33-41.

Translations

• “A Year of Crisis Revisited: Hubert Jedin’s 1968 Memorandum to the West German Episcopal Conference,” originally published in a slightly different form in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 92/2 (Nov. 1991): 22-28. Accessible at: http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2009/bvanhove_jedinmemo_oct09.asp

• A portion of Ja-Czlowiek (I-Man: An Outline of Philosophical Anthropology) by M. Krapiec.  New Britain CT: Mariel, 1983.
• "Kant's Doctrine of Ideas" by Karl Jaspers (from Psychologie der Weltanschauungen, 6. Auflage (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1971 [1954]) pp. 463-86; the translation appears in Karl Jaspers on the History of Philosophy and the Philosophy of History, edited by Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Raymond Langley (Amherst NY: Humanity Press, 2003), pp. 173-92. 

Editorial Positions

• Editor-in-Chief of International Philosophical Quarterly since May 1994
• Co-Editor, Fordham University Press Series in Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology, since Fall 1999.
• Book Review Editor for International Philosophical Quarterly, January 1993 to October 1994.
• Editor of the annual volume of Proceedings of the University Faculty for Life Conferences.
  • Life and Learning II. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1993.
  • Life and Learning III.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1993.
  • Life and Learning IV.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1995.
  • Life and Learning V.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1996.
  • Life and Learning VI.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1997.
  • Life and Learning VII.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1998.
  • Life and Learning VIII.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 1999.
  • Life and Learning IX.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2000.
  • Life and Learning X. Washington, D.C., UFL, 2002.
  • Life and Learning XI.  Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2002.
  • Life and Learning XII. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2003.
  • Life and Learning XIII. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2004.
  • Life and Learning XIV. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2005.
  • Life and Learning XV. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2006.
  • Life and Learning XVI. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2007.
  • Life and Learning XVII. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2008.
  • Life and Learning XVIII. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2011.
  • Life and Learning XIX. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2013.
  • Life and Learning XX. Washington, D.C.: UFL, 2013.
• Associate Editor, Auslegung, 1979-1984
• Guest-editor for a special issue of Thought on "Dante and the Tradition of Christian Culture," vol. 65 (March 1990)

Research Interests

• Relation of religion and culture, with attention to the historical influence of philosophy and theology on general culture
• Natural Law Theory
• Ancient and medieval metaphysics: history and contemporary significance of classical traditions, esp. Thomas Aquinas and Thomism
• Catholic Social Teaching 

Teaching Experience (courses offered)

• St. Louis University: Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of God, Philosophy of Human Nature.
• University of St. Thomas/Center for Thomistic Studies:  Plato's Later Dialogues (graduate); Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology (undergraduate).
• Loyola College: Philosophy of Human Nature, Ethics, Ancient and Medieval Metaphysics, Survey of Ancient and Medieval Thought on Art, Nature and Society.
• Fordham University:  Natural Law Ethics, Fundamental Moral Theology, God and Religion in Ancient Thought, Opuscula of Aquinas, Christian Platonism, Aquinas' De Veritate, Introduction to Augustine (graduate); Philosophy of Human Nature, Philosophy of Knowledge, Philosophy of Religion, Four Medieval Thinkers, Philosophy of the Person, Faith and Reason, Metaphysics, Shakespeare and Aquinas on the Passions, Great Ideas of Western Civilization I (Honors Program), Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Honors Program), History of Ancient Philosophy (undergraduate).
• Neuman Residence, Archdiocese of New York Collegiate Program: Philosophy of the Person, Philosophy of God, Fundamental Theology, Christology,Metaphysics, Ethics, Personalism (undergraduate).
• Institute for Religious Studies, St. Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie): Theology of Prayer: St. Ignatius of Loyola (graduate).
• Education for Parish Service (Stamford CT, Manhattan NY. and Naples FL): Fundamental Moral Theology, Catholic Social Teachings, Beginning-of-Life and End-of-Life Issues, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality; Webinar on Business Ethics.
• Santa Clara University (Santa Clara CA): Medieval Philosophy.

Professional Addresses

180.  “Bringing the Doctrine of Original Sin out of the Theological Repair Shop” – address for the Catholic Teachers Guild of Canada at Barry’s Bay, Ontario – August 24, 2015.

179. “Veritatis splendor: A Remedy for Moral Malaise” – address at the Wojtyła Summer Institute for Teachings, “Understanding the Past, Shaping the Future: The Catholic Church in Time,” at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy, Barry’s Bay, Ontario – August 24, 2015.

178. “Dante’s Two Mountains: Conversing with Vergil on the Do’s and Don’t’s of the Ascent” – address at the NYU Catholic Center, Manhattan for the “Conversing Conversion” conference – Jul 26, 2015.

177. “Light on the Psalms: C.S. Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms” – lecture for the C.S. Lewis Society of New York, Church of the Ascension, Manhattan on April 10, 2015.

176. “Thomas More and the Prayer for Detachment” – lecture at the University of Dallas, Irving TX on November 3, 2014.

175. “Dante and Eschatology” – lecture at the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Convention on Eschatology, Pittsburgh PA, on September 26, 2014.

174. “Jesuit Ethics: The Antimomies of Grace and Nature, Virtue and Law” – lecture at Xavier University, Cincinnati OH on September 10, 2014.

173. “The Use of Philosophical Principles in Modern Catholic Social Teaching” – lecture at the University of Portland, Portland OR on April 15, 2014.

172. “Understanding the Concept of Nature in Classical and Contemporary Forms of Natural Law Theory”  – lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia PA on March 26, 2014.

171. “W.N. Clarke and the Creative Retrieval of Aquinas and Thomism: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence” – lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia PA on March 25. 2014.

170. “Explaining Free Choice of the Will through Poetic Craft and Philosophical Precision: Dante’s Purgatorio XVI-XIX” – lecture at Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus OH on March 18, 2014.

169. “Why Study Philosophy in the Seminary?” – address at Cathedral Seminary, Douglaston, Queens NY – September 19, 2013

168. “Expressing Theological Concepts in Popular Devotion: The Skill in Aquinas's Corpus Christi Hymns,” lecture at the conference on “Christ Among the Medieval Mendicants” at the CUNY Grad Center, Manhattan – August 23, 2013.

167. “The Transcendentals in Metaphysics” – lecture at St. John Vianney Seminary, Denver CO, March 13, 2013.

166. “Person and Nature” – lecture at St. John Vianney Seminary, Denver CO, March 13, 2013.

165. “John Henry Cardinal Newman’s Grammar of Assent” – lecture at Felician College, Lodi NJY – February 28, 2013.

164. “Problems in Metaphysics” – lecture at the Conference on Philosophy in Seminary Education, Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg MD – May 21, 2012.

163. “Response” to “The Five Ways as a Conspectus of Thomistic Metaphysics” by Prof. Barry David at the meeting of the International St. Thomas Aquinas Society, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association” – Washington, D.C., December 29, 2011.

162. “Thomistic Personalism: Nature v. Person” – lecture for the Society for Thomistic Personalism, satellite session meeting in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association – St. Louis MO, October 28, 2011.

161. “The Principles of Catholic Social Teaching” – lecture at Belmont Abbey College, Charlotte NC, October 13, 2011.

160. “End-of-Life Ethics,” Lecture for the Knights and Dames of Malta, St. Louis MO, October 6, 2011; similar lecture for the Knights and Dames of Malta, South Bend IN, March 24, 2012.

159. “The Apologetical Works of C.S.Lewis” – seven lectures for The Wethersfield Institute, at the Church of Our Savior, Manhattan, NY – September through November 2011.

158. “Organ Transplantation: Why Not?” at the Philosophy Café, Hong Kong, August 9, 2011; similar presentation for the St. Robert Bellarmine Society, Fordham University, April 10, 2012.

157. “Discerning the Principles of Statecraft in Thomas More’s Utopia” – public lecture at the Hong Kong Baptist University, August 8, 2011.

156. “What Realists and Idealists Need to Learn from One Another: The Contribution of Karl Jaspers” – lecture for the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University, August 3, 2011.

155. “Classical Sources of Philosophy: Avoiding Historical Amnesia and Historicism” – lecture at the Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas and Contemporary Philosophy, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh NY – June 24, 2011.

154. “Augustine’s De Ordine and Cicero’s De natura deorum as Sources for Thomas More” – presentation at the summer conference of the St. Thomas More Society, University of Dallas, Irving TX, June 17, 2011.

153. “Response to ‘Aristotle on Acquiring First Principles of Demonstration’ by John W. Peck” – Graduate Symposium, Philosophy Department, Fordham University – April 28, 2011.

152. “The Role of Nature in Natural Law Theory” – lecture at the Conference on the Role of Philosophy in Theological Education at Ave Maria University, Naples FL – Feb. 11, 2011.

151. “The Concept of Social Justice in Two Recent Ecclesial Documents” – lecture at the Conference on Social Justice, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI – Nov. 13, 2010.

150. “A Model Syllabus for Metaphysics” – lecture for the Committee on Priestly Formation, meeting at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Baltimore MD – Nov. 6, 2010.

149. “Sacred Scripture in Relation to Philosophy and Theology in Seminary Education,” address at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit MI, August 25, 2010.

148. “Aristotle on Citizenship” at the conference on “Aristotle and Cicero on Citizenship,” University of Dallas, June 18, 2010.

147. “The Importance of the History of Philosophy (Ancient and Medieval) to Seminary Education” – lecture at the Conference on Seminary Education, Emmitsburg MD, May 24, 2010.

146. “Response” to “Thomist Realism and the Phenomenology of Essences, with a little bit of Kant” by Prof. Mark Roberts at the conference on “Edith’s Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being” at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, April 23, 2010.

145. “Yves Simon on Natural Law and Authority” – lecture at the “Conference on Human Reintegration: The Spirit of French Catholicism in America” at Assumption College in Worcester MA, April 10, 2010.

144. “Circe’s Beasts and the Image of God: More’s Creative Appropriation of Pico’s Humanist Spirituality” – lecture at the Conference on St. Thomas More, University of Dallas, Irving TX – November 2009.

143. “Transcendental Bonum and the Problem of Evil” – plenary lecture at the American Maritain Society, Houston TX, October 24, 2009.

142. “The Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Medieval Philosophy” – Inaugural Lecture, Philosophy Department, Fordham University – September 14, 2009.

141. “The Common Good and Human Rights – a Catholic Perspective” – lecture at the Pastoral Center for the Diocese of Charlotte in Charlotte NC – June 29, 2009; same lecture repeated at the Church of Church of the Immaculate Conception in Hendersonville NC on the evening of June 29, 2009.

140. “Just War Theory and the Common Good” – lecture at the Conference on Just War” sponsored by PRIO (Peace Research Institute/Oslo) in Naples FL – June 27, 2009.

139. “The Four Senses of Scripture in Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth,” address to the Jesuit Colloquium on Papal Thought, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. – June 8, 2009.

138. “What Does Aristotle Have to Do with Justice?" – lecture for the College of American Family Trial Lawyers Association – Savannah GA, April 25, 2009.

137. “Cardinal Newman’s Religious and Intellectual Journey” and “Newman on the Assent of Faith” – two lectures for the Faith and Reason Symposium,” held at Kellenberg Memorial High School, Uniondale NY, February 28, 2009.

136. “The Status of Personalism in Catholic Moral Thinking Today” – address at St. Joseph Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers NY, February 18, 2009.

135. “Thomas More on Free Choice of the Will” – presentation for the Conference on St. Thomas More, University of Dallas, Irving TX – November 7, 2008.

134. “Cardinal Newman’s Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent: Some Suggestions for Seminary Education” – lecture for the Committee on Priestly Formation, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Omaha NE – November 1, 2008.

133. “Aquinas on the Passions” – lecture at the American Catholic Philosophical Association conference, Omaha NE – October 31, 2008.

132. “The City of God and the City of Man: Augustine’s Argument and Some Applications for Today” – lecture at St. Vincent College, Latrobe PA – October 22, 2008.

131. “Augustine’s Doctrine of the Two Cities” – inaugural lecture for the Augustinian Lecture Series, Assumption College, Worcester MA – October 21, 2008.

130. “The Thought of Cardinal Newman” – seven lectures for the Wethersfield Institute, Manhattan – September and October, 2008.

129. “Natural Law Ethics in Catholic Social Teaching” – lecture at Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw Poland – April 24, 2008, and at the Redemptorist Seminary, Cracow, Poland, April 25, 2008.

128. “Natural Law Ethics: Recent Trends” – lecture at Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland – April 23, 2008.

127. “Idealism and Realism: What They Can Learn from One Another” – lecture for the Conference on Metaphysics and Epistemology at Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland – April 22, 2008.

126. “Thomas More’s Utopia on Conscience and Statesmen” – lecture for the Seattle Chesterton Society, Seattle WA – April 16, 2008.

125. “Natural Law in Contemporary Moral Theology” – lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Cleveland OH – March 31, 2008.

124.“Natural Law Ethics” – four lectures for the Joseph Fletcher Society, Columbus OH – Feb. 15-17, 2008.

123. “The Theology of Natural Family Planning” – address at the conference on “Humanae Vitae: 40 Years Later” – Feb. 1, 2008 – Ave Maria University, Ave Maria FL.

122. “Augustine’s City of God” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute, Manhattan – October through December, 2007.

121. “Making Informed End-of-Life Decisions” – lecture for the “Conference on Catholic Teaching on Medical Ethics” – Needham, MA – October 27, 2007

120. “The History of the University Faculty for Life Organization” – lecture at the Conference of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists” at St. John’s University, Queens NY – October 26, 2007.
119. “Current Themes in Natural Law Ethics” – The Bradley Lecture, Belmont Abbey College, Charlotte NC – October 8, 2007

118. “Abortion: Why Not?” – lecture for Life Institute; same lecture at Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, and Exeter, England – September 2007.

117. “The Concept of Personhood in the Abortion Debate” – lecture for Life Institute at Lemington Spa, England – September 2007.

116. “The Concept of Justice in Classical Natural Law Theory,” lecture at the World Congress of Jesuits in Philosophy,” Frankfurt, Germany – Augustine, 2007.

115. “Human Nature in Catholic Thought,” lecture at the Georgist-Catholic Dialogue, University of Scranton in Scranton PA – July 26, 2007.

114. “Natural Law: What Is It?” – lecture for the 2007-2008 ISI Honors Program, “Law in the Western Tradition: Common, Constitutional, Natural, and Divine” – Quebec City, Canada, June 26, 2007.

113. “The Problem of Dirty Hands: Some Ethical Guidelines” – lecture for the IPED Program, Fordham University, February 8, 2007.

112. “Aquinas on the Sacrament of Marriage” – lecture at Ave Maria University, February 1, 2007.

111. “Response” to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.’s presentation on the theology of the sacraments in the thought of Aquinas – at Ave Maria University, Naples FL, February 1, 2007.

110. “Problèmes particuliers: Droit naturel et le problème de l’autonomie en bioéthique” – lecture (in English with simultaneous French translation) at l’Université Montesquieu Bordeau IV in Bordeaux, France, December 15, 2006.

109. “La Philosophie américane du droit et de l’état: enjeux contemporains” – lecture (in English with simultaneous French translation) at l’Université Montesquieu Bordeau IV in Bordeaux, France, December 14, 2006.

108. “The Use of the Idea of Nature in Morality” – lecture at Wheaton College, Chicago IL on November 30, 2006 and at Bethel College (Indiana) on December 1, 2006.

107. “The Concept of Person as a Unifying Theme in Seminary Teaching of Philosophy and Theology” – lecture at St. Charles Seminary, Philadelphia PA, November 17, 2006.

106. “Dirty Hands: The Problem of Cooperation with Evil in Thomas More’s History of Richard III” – lecture at the conference on History of Richard III at the University of Dallas, Dallas TX, November 4, 2006.

105. “The Concept of Nature in Natural Law Ethics” – theWilliam Rossner Visiting Scholar Lecture at Rockhurst University, Kansas City MO, September 20, 2006.

104. Presenter and Moderator for the “Consortium for Educational Advancement” – Colloquium on “Christian Education in America: Prospects and Problems for Catholic and Evangelical Cooperation” at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Manhattan, July 11, 2006.

103. “Stories Are Not Enough: The Church’s Choice to Make Use of Greek Philosophy” – lecture at the Conference on the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI” at Fordham University, Bronx NY, June 19, 2006.

102. Panelist on “Economic Justice and Welfare Reform” at the Conference on “Prudential Judgment, Public Policy, and the Catholic Social Tradition” – Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy – University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis MN, April 8, 2006.

101. “The Use of Natural Law Ethics and Personalism in Pope John Paul II’s Social Teaching” – at the conference on “John Paul II’s Jurisprudential Legacy” at St. John’s University Law School, Jamaica NY, March 23, 2006.

100. “Pope John Paul II’s Use of Natural Law and Personalism for Catholic Social Thought” – lecture at the conference on “Truth, Life, and Solidarity: Philosophical Perspectives on the Thought of Pope John Paul II” at Boston College, Feb. 24, 2006.

99. “Natural Law and Personalism as Philosophical Approaches within Catholic Social Thought” – lecture at Ave Maria University, Naples FL, January 27, 2006.

98. “The Concept of Nature in Natural Law Theory” – lecture at Ave Maria University, Naples FL, January 26, 2006.

97. “Natural Law and Bias Reduction” – lecture for CLE credit, sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society of Orange CA, January 14, 2006.

96.“The Use of Philosophical Arguments in Catholic Social Encyclicals" – lecture to the Philosophy Club at St. Francis College, Brooklyn NY, Nov. 17, 2005.

95. “Failed Politician? Successful Statesman.  Thomas More on Conscience” – lecture at the University of Dallas Conference on St. Thomas More, Irving TX, Nov. 4, 2005.

94. “The Place of Philosophy in the New Program of Priest Formation” – panel discussant for the Committee on Priestly Formation at the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting at the University of Notre Dame, IN, October 29, 2005.

93. “The Use of Philosophical Principles in Catholic Social Teaching” – presentation to the Jesuit Philosophical Association meeting at the University of Notre Dame, October 28, 2005.

92. “Catholic Social Teaching: The Case of Gaudium et Spes” – lecture at the annual conference of the American Maritain Association in Washington, D.C., October 13, 2005.

91. “The Catholic Church’s Teaching on ‘End of Life’ Ethics” – lecture sponsored by the Diocese of Charlotte NC in Immaculate Conception Church in Hendersonville NC on Aug. 10, 2005; in St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Charlotte NC on Aug. 11, 2005; in St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Charlotte NC on Aug. 12, 2005; and in Holy Family Church in Clemmons NC on Aug. 13, 2005.

90.“The Need for Philosophy in Theology” – for the panel on “Philosophy in the Seminary Curriculum” at the NCEA Convention in Philadelphia, PA – March 30, 2005.

89. “Plato’s Parable of Misology and Misanthropy in the Phaedo” – for the panel “Storytelling across the Disciplines” at the NYU Roundtable “Perspectives on Storytelling,” New York University, October 1, 2004.

88. “The Gospel of Life: Reflections on Evangelium Vitae” – invited lectures for the Diocese of Charlotte NC in St. Peter’s Church in Charlotte NC, in St. Michael’s Church in Gastonia NC, and St. Eugene’s Church in Ashville NC – March 12-13, 2004.

87. “Catholic Social Teaching in the Papal Encyclicals: The Philosophical Principles” – invited lecture for the Catholic Studies Program at the University of Scranton, Nov. 6, 2003; similar lecture at St. John’s University, October 5, 2004; similar lecture for “Theology on Tap of Bronxville” at St. Joseph’s Church of Bronxville NY, November 1, 2005.

86. “Model Syllabi for Teaching Natural Law Ethics” – lecture for the Committee on Priestly Formation at the American Catholic Philosophical Association conference in Houston TX, November 1, 2003.

85. “Medical and Ethical Issues on Stem Cells and Cloning” – lecture at the Respect Life Conference of the Archdiocese of New York at Dunwoodie Seminary, Yonkers, NY – Oct. 18, 2003.

84. “Dante’s Debt to Aquinas in Purgatorio 16-19" – invited lecture at Christendom College, Front Royal, VA – October 6, 2003.

83. “Response” to Colleen McCluskey, “Aquinas on Malice” at the American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Cleveland OH, April 25, 2003.

82. “Human Cloning” – participant in a panel-discussion at the Makor Center (sponsored by the 92nd Street Y and by The New Republic, Manhattan on March 27, 2003.

81. “Jaspers’s Models for Freedom in Philosophie, Vol. 2" – lecture for the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, meeting in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia PA, December 28, 2002.

80. “Response” to Gwynn Markle, “Conscience and the Critical Potential of Hegel’s Social Theory” and to “David Zinn, “The Incommensurability of Scientific Theories: A Semblance of Subjectivity” for the Fordham Philosophical Society’s symposium on “Truth and Interpretation” at Fordham University, November 13, 2002.

79. “Natural Law Theory and the Charge of the Naturalistic Fallacy” – invited presentation to the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN, April 5, 2002.

78. “The Problem of Formal and Material Cooperation with Evil” – invited lecture for the Agnus Dei Council of the Knights of Columbus, Manhattan, October 30, 2001.

77. “Philosophical Principles in Papal Social Teachings” – invited lecture for the Catholic Studies Program at Loyola College, Baltimore MD, October 16, 2001; same lecture at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN, April 4, 2002.

76. “Papal Social Teachings” – The 2001 Wethersfield Institute Lectures, Manhattan (April 18, 25, May 2, 16, 30, June 13, 27).

75. “The Relation of Faith and Reason in Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio” – invited lecture at Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion IN, March 15, 2001.
74. “A Trio of Problems: the Nature of God, the Nature of Evil, and the Nature of Free Choice in Augustine’s Confessions VII” – invited lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, February 23, 2001.

73. “The Dream of the Siren in Purgatorio XIX: Dramatizing the Thomistic Philosophical Account of Desire, Attraction, and Freedom Choice” – invited lecture at the University of Padova (Italy), November 24, 2000.

72. “Commentary” on the lecture by Prof. Robert P. George, “Natural Law, Judicial Review, and Constitutional Interpretation” at the Natural Law Colloquium at the Fordham University Law School, Manhattan, November 20, 2000.

71. “Ordering the Passions” – paper delivered for the Natural Law Society (meeting at the American Catholic Philosophical Association), Dallas TX, November 3, 2000.

70. “The Social Teaching of Pope John Paul II” – invited lecture for the Wall Street Catholic Young Adult Club, Manhattan, October 18, 2000.

69. “Augustine’s Debt to Neoplatonism” – paper delivered at the Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University, September 23, 2000.

68. “Discussion of Fides et Ratio” at the “Biannual Jesuit Seminar on the Thought of Pope John Paul II,” Xavier University, Cincinnati OH, August 6, 2000.

67. “Providence and History in Medieval Thought” – invited lecture for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program, Philadelphia PA, June 6, 2000.

66. “Dante on the Question of Free Will” – invited lecture at the College of St. Francis, Brooklyn, NY, March 7, 2000.

65. “Harvesting Organs: Is Brain Death Really Death? A Disputed Question for Audience Debate” – presentation at the Society for the Philosophy of Human Life Issues, at the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December 28, 1999.

64. “The Metaphysics of Fides et Ratio” – lecture for the Committee on Priestly Formation, meeting in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association, St. Paul MN, November 5, 1999.

63. “The Challenges of Fides et Ratio” – invited lecture at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio – October 16, 1999.

62. “The Jesuits and Thomism” – address at the Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, October 9, 1999.

61. “Response” to Prof. Gowans’s paper “A Priori Responses to Disagreement Arguments against Moral Objectivity: Why Experience Matters” at the Philosophy Department’s annual “Inaugural Lesson,” Fordham University, September 30, 1999.

60. “Strategies for Discussing Plato’s Apology” – presentation for Fordham University Faculty in the 1999-2000 Freshman Advising Program – McGinley Center, August 25, 1999.

59. “Recent Controversies Concerning the Natural Law” – invited lecture at a symposium of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at New York University: “Degrees of Truth: Current Controversies Concerning Aquinas” – April 30, 1999.
58. “Dante on Being True to Oneself” and “Whether Universal Truths Exist for the 21st Century” – a pair of invited lectures as the 1999 Visiting Scholar at Walsh University, Akron OH.

57. “Response” to the lecture by Ken Woodward at the Fordham University Symposium on Fides et Ratio – Walsh Library, Rose Hill Campus, March 2, 1999.

56. “Response” to “Natural Law and Human Rights: the Person, the Family, and the State” by Prof. Michel Schooyans – The Jacques Maritain Lecture series on the Natural Law, held at the United Nations, May 27, 1998.

55. “Jaspers on the Idea of the University” at the International Karl Jaspers Society meetings in conjunction with the World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 12, 1998.

54. “Augustine’s Confessions” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Chase Bank Building, Manhattan, March-June 1998.

53. “Response” to “Technology and the Poetics of ‘Life: Heidegger, Holderlin, and Kant” by Jennifer Anna Gosetti at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America session in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., December 29, 1997.

52. “The Problem of the Divine Ideas in Aquinas’s de Veritate” – lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1997.

51. “The Christian Appropriation of Neoplatonic Doctrines of the Soul”  – lecture at the Conference on Medieval Studies, Binghamton University, October 26, 1997.

50. “The Arts and Authority” – lecture at the American Maritain Association meeting in Boston MA on October 23, 1997.

49. “An Introduction to John Paul II’s Thinking: The Central Themes” – keynote speaker at the 1997 Wethersfield Institute on “The Thought of Pope John Paul II and the Future of Catholicism” at the Donnell Library, Manhattan, October 10, 1997.

48. “Veritatis Splendor: What’s New and What’s True” – invited lecture at Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, October 2, 1997.

47. “Response” to Prof. Merold Westphal’s “Appropriating Postmodernism” at the Philosophy Department’s Inaugural Lecture, Fordham University, Sept. 17, 1997.

46. “Thomistic Philosophy and Seminary Education” – lecture at the “Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference” at Villanova University, Sept. 13, 1997.

45. “Eriugena on the Soul: One of the Inner Struggles of Christian Neoplatonism” – lecture at the Patristic, Medieval, & Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova Univ., Sept. 12, 1997.

44. “Some Contributions of Bonaventure and Aquinas to Dante” – paper at the conference on “The Virgin Mary in Italian Literature” at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, April 11, 1997.

43. “Catholicism and American Liberalism: A Discussion of Robert H. Bork’s Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline” – participant in the panel-discussion (Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, meeting in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association) Buffalo NY, March 21, 1997.

42. “Unexpected Philosophical Progress: The Origins of the Concept of the Person” – presentation at the Jesuit Philosophical Association" -- Buffalo, New York, March 21, 1997.

41. “Jaspers on Idealism and Realism” – lecture at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Atlanta GA, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, December 27, 1996.

40. “Aquinas’s Use of Damascene’s De Fide Orthodoxa” – lecture at the American Maritain Association, Tempe Arizona, November 2, 1996.

39. “Response” to Robert Spitzer, S.J., at the “Fourth Bi-Annual Jesuit Conference on the Thought of John Paul II” – at Georgetown University, August 3, 1996.

38. “Neoplatonism in Plotinus, Augustine, and John Scotus Eriugena” – invited lecture at C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, New York City, April 12, 1996.

37. “Response” to “Christian Identity in Augustine’s Confessions” by Christopher Thompson at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Los Angeles CA, March 24, 1996.

36. “The Doctrine of Participation in Aquinas’s Commentary on John” – lecture at the meeting of the St. Thomas Aquinas Society, held in conjunction with the American Catholic Philosophical Association) – Los Angeles CA, March 23, 1996.

35. “Can There Be Freedom Without Authority?” – public lecture at the University of St. Thomas, March 9, 1996.

34.  “John Damascene’s Philosophical Defense of Icons” – lecture for the Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston TX, March 7, 1996.

33.  “Natural Law in the Wisdom of Solomon” – Visiting Scholar Lecture to the general faculty at the University of St. Thomas, Houston TX, March 6, 1996.

32. “Response” at the Karl Jaspers Society of North America to papers by Hope Fitz and John Lachs – New York, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1995.

31. “Restoring the Ideal of Development to the Idea of Education” – lecture at the American Maritain Association annual meeting, College of Charleston, Charleston SC, November 30, 1995.

30. “Personhood and the Problem of Abortion” – invited lecture in the New York Catholic Forum series on the Life Issues, New York City, November 14, 1995.

29. “The Doctrine of Participation in Aquinas’s Commentary on St. John” – lecture at the Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Conference (Institute of Global Cultural Studies) at Binghamton University, SUNY, October 22, 1995.

28. “The Aristotelian Heritage of John of Damascus” – lecture at the Conference on Medieval Studies of the University of Virginia, Wise VA, September 29, 1995.

27. “The Problem of the Divine Ideas in Thomas Aquinas’s De Veritate” – invited lecture at St. Thomas More College in Merrimac, N.H., March 31, 1995.

26. “Natural Law in the Thought of C. S. Lewis” – invited address to the C. S. Lewis Society of New York, New York City, February 10, 1995.

25. “The General Theory of Authority and the Protection of Human Rights” – American Maritain Association annual meeting, New York University, Nov. 10, 1994.

24. “Recognizing One of Aquinas’s Debts to Neoplatonism” – lecture at the Global and Multicultural Dimensions of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Conference (Institute of Global Cultural Studies) at Binghamton University, SUNY, October 16, 1994.   Same lecture delivered for the Fordham University Medieval Studies Program, September 19, 1995.

23. “Response” to Arthur Madigan’s Paper on “The Moral Philosophy in Part III of the Catechism” at the conference on “The Moral and Social Thought of John Paul II” at Canisius College, Buffalo, August 1994.

22. “Jaspers on Anselm and Cusa” – address at the North American Jaspers Society, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 1993.

21. “Unreliable Tools: Postmodernism and Religion” – address at the American Maritain Association meeting, Dallas, November 1993.  Also delivered as a Philosophy Department Colloquium at Fordham University, February 1994.

20. “Religion as the Root of Culture” – invited address at the Wethersfield Institute Conference on Christopher Dawson, New York, October 1993.

19. “Reflections on the Structure of Thomas’s Five Ways” – address at the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Conference, Villanova Univ., October 1993.

18. “Boethius on Universals” – paper (read in absentia by Sr. Joan Franks) at the ACPA Round Table, St. John's Univ., Jamaica NY, April 3, 1993.

17. “A Biblical Approach to Natural Law” – lecture at the American Maritain Association meeting in Kansas City, November 1992.

16. “The Book of Wisdom as a Biblical Approach to Natural Law” – presentation and discussion at the Jesuit Philosophical Association, San Diego CA, March 1992.

15. “The Doctrine of Participation in Thomistic Metaphysics” – address at the American Maritain Association Conference on “The Future of Thomisms” – Fordham Univ., Oct. 1990.

14. “Religious Metaphysics in Antiquity” – presentation on Von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord, vol. 4, at the Jesuit Philosophical Association meeting in Toronto, March 1990.

13. “Boethius on Universals” – invited lecture at Georgetown University, January 1990.

12. “The Stoicism of Epictetus” – invited address to the Faculty of Loyola College, February 20, 1987.

11. “St. Thomas’s Theory of the Passions: A Dispassionate Appraisal” – invited address at the Thomas More Institute, Merrimack, N.H., February 13, 1987.

10. “Aquinas on Error” – address at the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Conference, Villanova, September 1985.

9. “Certain Essential Aspects of Human Intelligence – invited paper delivered at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence of ITEST, St. Louis, Mo., March 1984.

8. “Jaspers’s Philosophy of Science” – address at the Catholic Philosophical Association, Pittsburgh, April 1984.

7. “A Comparison of the Philosophies of History of Dawson, Jaspers, and Maritain” – address at the Society for Christian Culture Conference, Houston, February 1984.  Organizer of the Conference.

6. “The Epistemology of Bernard of Clairvaux” – address at the Patristic, Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, September 1983.

5. “Freedom as a Condition for Truth: Jaspers on the Significance of Temporality in Science” – at the World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, August 1983.

4. “On Arguing Questions of Justice” – invited lecture at Xavier Univ., Cincinnati, Ohio, March 24, 1983.

3. “Augustine’s Discovery of the Will" – invited lecture to the St. Edmund Campion Society, St. Louis University, Sept. 1980.

2. “Philosophy and the Faith: The Proofs for the Existence of God” – Conferences on Apologetics at the Catholic Central Union, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 1978 and Oct. 1979.

1. “The Possibility of Impartiality: Comment-Response to Prof. Vernon J. Bourke on ‘The Ethical Role of the Impartial Observer’”– St. Louis University Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Nov. 18, 1977.

General Lectures, Addresses, Conferences

177. “What is the Place of the Right to Life within Catholic Social Teaching?” – lecture at Loyola University of Chicago, February 5, 2015.

176. “The End of Intelligent Discussion” – panel discussant at the John Cardinal O’Connor Conference at Georgetown University, January 24, 2015.

175. “Catholic Social Teaching: Faith, Justice and Charity” – Faith and Reason Seminar at Kellenberg High School, 18 October 2014.       

174. “More, Erasmus, and Fisher: Pillars of Christian Humanism” – series of six lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Church of St. Agnes, Manhattan, September and October 2014.

173. “Jesus and the Feast of Corpus Christi: Reflections on the 750th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Universal Feast” – lecture at St. Sebastian Parish, Woodside Queens on June 19, 2014.

172. “Theological Themes in the Art of the Cloisters Museum” – lecture on June 18, 2014 for the alumni of the North American College – Manhattan NY.

171. “Thinking with the Mind of the Church: Reflections on Pope Francis” – address at Nassau Community College on March 29, 2014.

170. “Conscience: Its Nature and Its Importance” – lecture for the Faculty Day at Cardinal Spellman High School, Bronx NY – March 14, 2014.

169. “Abortion and Social Justice” – panel discussant at the Students of Life of America National Conference in Upper Marlboro MD, January 21, 2014.

168. “St. Ignatius Loyola, the Society of Jesus, and Pope Francis” – seven lectures for the Wethersfield Institute” at the Church of St Jean Baptiste, September-October 2013.

167. “Religious Education: A Parish Based Spirituality” – two talks for the teachers and staff at St. Barnabas Grade School and Sr. Barnabas High School, Bronx, September 5, 2013.

166. “Jesuit Approaches to Undergraduate Teaching: Connecting Mission to the Classroom Experience” – presentation at the Student Affairs and Athletics Divisional Training – Fordham University,  March 22, 2013.

165. “The Creed” – two lectures for the Faith and Reason Institute at Kellenberg High School, March 9, 2013.

164. “Spe Salvi” – lecture at Belmont Abbey College, February 21, 2013.

163. “Thomas More and Conscience Formation” – lecture at St. Margaret of Cortona Parish, Bronx NY – December 17, 2012.

162. “The Letters of St. Paul” – lecture at the Church of St. Agnes, Manhattan – December 2, 2012.

161. “Catholic Artists Society: Grow Spiritually and Connect Professionally” – panelist at a session of the annual conference of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists at Kellenberg H.S. in Uniondale NY – October 27, 2012.

160. “Serving Scholarship, the Church, and Civilization” – panelist representing the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars at a session of the annual conference of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists at Kellenberg H.S. in Uniondale NY – October 26, 2012.

159. “The Use of Imagination in Prayer” – two lectures for the Principals and Teachers of Catholic Grade Schools in the West Bronx – St. Margaret Mary Parish, Bronx NY – October 26, 2012.

158. “The Four Senses of Scripture” – lecture for the Friends of the Spiritual Family of the Work, Manhattan – September 23, 2012.

157. “The Philosophical and Theological Groundwork of Humanae Vitae” – Address to the Natural Family Planning Training Day, Manhattan – August 25, 2012.
156. “The Ethics of Organ Transplantation and the Concept of Brain Death” – Address for the New York State Right to Life Youth Conference, Utica NY – August 18, 2012.  Same lecture on October 6, 2012 for the New York Metropolitan College Pro-Life Conference at Fordham University, Bronx NY.

155. “Christology” – a series of lectures for the Missionaries of Charity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti – July 20–24, 2012.

154. “The Concept of Sacrifice” at the Brandsma Conference in Dublin, Ireland – July 16, 2012.

153. Religious freedom lectures in Charlotte NC on June 18, 2012, in Murphy NC on June 19, 2012, in Arden NC on June 20, in Shelby NC on June 20, and in St. Leo’s on June 21,  and in Lincoln NE on June 29, 2012.

152. “Thinking with the Church: Lessons from the Life of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.” – public lecture at the University of St. Thomas, Houston TX – June 13, 2012.

151. “Natural Law” – lecture for the Catholic Social Teaching Seminar sponsored by the Holy See’s Mission to the United Nations, Jamaica NY – May 25, 2012; similar lecture for the same organization on May 24, 2013.

150. “End of Life Decision Making” – lecture for the Center for Life Educational Trust, Mt. Kisko NY – April 21, 2012.

149. “Ever Ancient, Ever New: The Wisdom of God in the Old Testament” – four lectures at the Parish of St. Mary, Norwalk CT – March 12-15, 2012.

148. “Ethical Principles Regarding Organ Donation” – address for the Nassau Community College Center for Catholic Studies at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington NY – October 23, 2011.

147. “Jesuit Spirituality” – lecture for New York Regional Conference of Students for Life, Fordham University – October 6, 2011.

146. “Benedict XVI’s Deus Caritas Est as a Response to the Masters of Suspicion” – lecture for the “Hearts on Fire” World Youth Day site of the Apostleship of Prayer, Madrid, Spain – August 19, 2011.

145. “The Structure of the Argument in  Pope Benedict XVI’s Deus caritas est” – lecture for the Dominican Studium in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, August 6, 2011.

144. “Natural Law Theory and Personalism” – four lectures for the St. John Fisher Society, Cardinal Stritch House, Chicago IL, July 3-6, 2011.

143. “Tools for Prayer” – presentation at St. Margaret of Scotland Parish, Maggi Valley NC, June 15, 2011; same presentation at St. Eugene Parish, Asheville NC, June 16, 2011.

142. “Understanding Marriage and Commitment through Pope John Paul II’s The Jeweler’s Shop” – two-part presentation at St John Neumann Parish, Charlotte NC – June 13-14, 2011.

141. “The Daily Examen” – lecture at the Pastoral  Center of the Diocese of Charlotte, June 13, 2011; same presentation at St. Gabriel’s Parish, June 14, 2011.

140. “The Gospel of Life” – two lectures on “The Gospel of Life” for the Respect Life Coordinators of the Archdiocese of New York at St. Joseph’s Seminary (Dunwoodie), June 4, 2011.

139. “Introduction to Philosophy” – four lectures a day for a group of the Missionaries of Charity, Ponce, Puerto Rico, May 27-June 2, 2011.

138. “Ignatian Prayer and the Work of the Artist” – lecture for the Catholic Artists Society, held at the Church of Our Savior, Manhattan – May 15, 2011.

137. “Understanding St. Thomas More’s Utopia” – presentation at Dean’s Day, Fordham University, April 17, 2011; similar lecture at Maryknoll Institute, Ossining NY, Sept. 26, 2011.

136. “The Passion in Catholic Art” – two lectures at the Church of the Holy Family, Manhattan, April 6 and April 13, 2011.

135. “Dialogue about the Monologues” – presentation in a panel discussion at Fordham University, Rose Hill – March 22, 2011.

134. “Benedict XVI on the Masters of Suspicion” – for a conference at Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus – March 21, 2011.

133. “Examining Your Conscience: The Ignatian Method” – lecture for Theology on Tap, Woodlawn NY, February 22, 2011.  Same talk at the Church of the Holy Family, Nutley NJ – February 28, 2011.

132. “Catholic Social Teaching and the Pro-Life Movement” – public lecture at San Pablo Parish, Marathon FL – February 20, 2011.

131. “Building a Culture of Life Today: Learning from the Life and Legacy of Cardinal O’Connor” – moderator of the panel discussion featured at the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. – January 23, 2011.

130. “And With Your Spirit: Understanding the New Translation for the Mass” – for the Education for Parish Service program, St John’s Church, Darien CT – January 15, 2011; similar talk for The Spiritual Family The Work, Manhattan – September 18, 2011; similar talk for Holy Trinity Parish, Manhattan, December 7, 2011.

129. “Understanding the Defense of Human Life as Part of Catholic Social Teaching in Caritas in Veritate” – lecture for the Bronx Respect Life organization, St. Margaret of Cortona Parish, Bronx NY – December 20, 2010.

128. “Appreciating Caritas in Veritate within the History of Catholic Social Teaching”  – lecture at the Cathedral of St Paul in St. Paul MN – October 28, 2010.

127. “Understanding the Use of Natural Law Reasoning in Papal Social Encylicals” – lecture at Thornwood NY – October 21, 2010.

126. “The Significance of Caritas in Veritate for the Pro-Life Movement” – lecture at St. Joseph’s Church for the Catholic Medical Guild, Milwaukee WI – October 18, 2010.

125. “Lessons from St Thomas’s More’s Utopia” – address for the Catholic Alumni Club – Manhattan – October 1, 2010.
124. “Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Understanding of the Sacred Heart” – lecture for the Conference on the Sacred Heart, Manhattan – June 12, 2010.

123. “The Significance of Deus Caritas Est and Spe Salvi for Catholic Social Teaching” – two lectures for the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C. – June 2, 2010.

122. “Conscience Formation” – lecture for the Bellarmine Society – Fordham University – March 9, 2010.

121. “Dante’s Divine Comedy” – two lectures for the Faith & Reason Symposium at Kellenberg HS, Uniondale NY – January 16, 2010.

120. “The Evening Blessing” – for the friends of the Spiritual Family of the Work, Manhattan, November 22, 2009.

119. “Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth” – seven lectures for the Wethersfield Institute, Manhattan, September through November 2009.

118. “Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi” – lecture for Theology on Tap, Bronxville NY, October 20, 2009.

117. “Reverence for the Eucharist” – addressed for the parishes of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, St. Catharine, and St. Gabriel, at St. Gabriel the Archangel Church, Saddle River NJ, October 17, 2009.

116. “Telling the Truth by Stories: C.S. Lewis on Love as a Passion and Love as a Virtue,” address for the C.S. Lewis Society at Douglaston NY, August 9, 2009.

115. “Theology of the Body” – Centro Maria, Manhattan, July 25, 2009.

114. “St Paul on Questions of Human Life, Marriage, and Society” – two lectures at the Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Charlotte in Charlotte NC on July 1, 2009; same lectures at the Church of Our Lady of Mercy in Winston Salem NC on July 2, 2009.

113. “Dante’s Divine Comedy and Solving the Problems of Life’s Ups and Downs” – two-part conference at the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Ashville NC – June 30, 2009.

112. “Dignitas Personae” – lecture sponsored by the Celebrate Life Committee at the Church of St. John, Darien CT – June 21, 2009

111. “The Sacred Heart and the Theology of Reparation” – lecture at the Conference on the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Church of Our Savior, Manhattan NY – June 20, 2009.

110. “Ignatian Examination of Conscience” – lecture for the Legatus Group of Boston, Weston MA, May 21, 2009.

109. “St. Thomas More’s Utopia” – lecture at St. Luke’s Parish, Westport CT – March 6, 2009.

108. “Cardinal Newman’s Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent” – lecture for the Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Manhattan, March 6, 2009.

107. “St. Paul and the Right to Life” – lecture for the Bronx Respect Life organization, St. Margaret of Cortona Parish, Bronx NY – December 15, 2008.

106. “Abortion and Election Politics 2008" – lecture at Creighton University, Omaha NE – October 30, 2008; same lecture for the College Democrats at Fordham University, Bronx NY – October 29, 2008.

105. “Ignatius Loyola’s Rules for Discernment” – lecture for the joint meeting of the Board of Trustees and Board of Regents of Gonzaga University, Spokane WA – October 17, 2008.

104. “The Bible’s Answer to the Problem of Human Suffering” – same lecture in various parishes, Diocese of Charlotte, July 31–Aug. 2, 2008.

103. “Conscience Formation according to Thomas More” – lecture for Westchester County Right to Life, New Rochelle NY – September 27, 2007; similar lecture at St. Vincent Ferrer Parish, Manhattan, October 5, 2008; similar lecture at “Faith on Tap” in Wantagh NY, November 24, 2008.

102. “The Problem of Dirty Hands: Catholic Moral Teaching on Complicity and Cooperation with Evil” – same lecture at four parishes in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, September 2007.

101. “Thomas More’s Utopia” – lecture for the Thomas More Society, Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey – June 21, 2007.

100. “An Introduction to the Thought of Immanuel Kant” – lecture sponsored by the Catholic Campus Ministry at Columbia University, New York City – October 8, 2006.

99. “Catholic Social Teaching: A Philosopher’s Point of View” – lecture for series on “The Church and Social Justice” sponsored by the Guild of Catholic Lawyers at the Church of Our Savior, New York City, – October 6, 2006

98. “Pierre Favre, S.J., on Reform, Personal and Ecclesial” at the “Ite, Inflammate Omnia” Conference on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, Loyola, Spain on August 24, 2006.

97. “The Ignatian Method for the Examination of Conscience” – lecture at Redemptoris Mater Regional Seminary in Guam, July 28, 2006.

96. “Thomas More’s Richard III” – lecture at the Church of St. Thomas More, Manhattan, June 26, 2006.

95. “The Social Thought of Pope John Paul II” – the same lecture at St. Therese Parish, Mooresville NC, May 22, 2006; at St. Michael’s Parish in Gastonia NC, May 23, 2006; St. Margaret of Scotland Parish, May 24, 2006, and at St. Pius X Parish in Greensboro NC, May 25, 2006

94. “Thomas More’s Utopia” – keynote address for the John Hopkins University “Odyssey Program” at Fordham University, March 25, 2006

93. “The Question of the Appropriateness of the Vagina Monologues at a Catholic University” – panel discussion at Fordham University, February 27, 2006

92. “End of Life Issues – The Catholic Approach” – lecture at St. Thomas More parish, Manhattan, February 20, 2006.

91. “Catholic Social Teaching: From Leo XIII to John Paul II" – presentation for the Bronxville NY “Theology on Tap,” Nov. 1, 2005.

90. “Understanding the Encyclical Evangelium Vitae" – lecture at St. Matthias Parish, Ridgewood, NY, October 10, 2005.

89. “The Foundation of the Church” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Church of Our Savior, Manhattan – from September to November 2005.

88. “Can We Talk? Discussion, Dialogue and Debate in the Catholic Church” – panelist for the discussion organized by the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus – September 19, 2005.

87. “How to Read a Difficult Text: The Oresteia of Aeschylus” – presentation for Freshman Academic Orientation, Fordham University – August 29, 2005.

86. “Aquinas’s Eucharistic Hymns” – invited lecture at St. Paul’s Bookstore in Manhattan, May 19, 2005.  Same lecture at St. Paul’s Bookstore in Edison NJ – September 17, 2005

85. “The Importance of Conscience Formation for St. Thomas More” – invited lecture for the St. Thomas More Society Annual Dinner, Wilmington DE – May 15, 2005.

84. “How Far May We Go? The Difference between Material and Formal Cooperation with Evil” – lecture for Theology-on-Tap in Greenwich CT – March 31, 2005

83. “Jesuit Spirituality in Jesuit Education” at Loyola College, Baltimore MD – March 21, 2005.

82. “Old Covenant, New Covenant” at the “Jews and the Church” Conference, Manhattan – March 19, 2005.

81. “John Paul II on the Theology of Suffering” at the “Jews and the Church” Conference, Manhattan  – March 19, 2005.

80. “Moral Relativism” – lecture at “Theology-on-Tap” in Manhattan – October 18, 2004.

79. “An Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas” – lecture sponsored by the Catholic Campus Ministry at Columbia University, New York City – October 17, 2004.

78. “Krysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue 3: An Introduction to the Film” – brief lecture on the third film as part of a year-long film series at Fordham University – October 12, 2004.

77. “The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality” – lecture for the Conference on Human Sexuality, Health Care, and the Catholic Church, sponsored by the Wisconsin and Chicago Guilds of the Catholic Medical Association, at Marquette University, Milwaukee WI – June 11, 2004.

76. “The Legacy of Pope John Paul II” – invited lecture at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT – October 23, 2003; same lecture for “Theology on Tap” in Manhattan – October 27, 2003; same lecture at Bergen Community College – December 11, 2003.

75. “The Courageous Witness of St. John Fisher”– invited lecture of the Guild of Catholic Lawyers, Church of Our Savior, Manhattan – October 3, 2003.

74. “John Paul II’s Views on Human Personhood” for the “Spirituality and Medicine Conference” of the Philadelphia Catholic Medical Association, Philadelphia PA – June 28, 2003.

73. “On Forming a Catholic Conscience” – a lecture for “Theology on Tap” in Stamford CT – February 13, 2003 and in Manhattan – March 10, 2003.

72. “Christian Art and the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit” – a lecture delivered at St. Mary’s Parish in Katonah NY – May 11, 2002; similar lecture at St Mary’s Parish in Greenwich CT – October 24, 2004.

71. “Biblical Wisdom-Literature and the Problem of Evil” – a lecture sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities: delivered at the Mid-Island YJCC, Plainview NY – May 8, 2002; same lecture at the Gomez Mill House, Marlboro NY – July 28, 2002; same lecture at the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, Monticello NY – July 31, 2002.

70. “Matteo Ricci and The Art of Memory” – presentation for the Matteo Ricci Society at Fordham University – April 26, 2002.

69. “The Hidden Treasure of Catholic Social Teachings” – presentation for the Induction Ceremony of the Fordham Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu – April 15, 2002.

68. “St. Thomas More: A Model and Patron for Lawyers” – invited lecture at the Todd Lincoln House, Manhattan – December 13, 2001.

67. “John Paul II on Culture” – invited lecture at The Kosciuszko Foundation, Manhattan – November 30, 2001.

66. “St. Thomas More and Conscience” – invited lecture at the Church of St. Thomas More, Manhattan – June 26, 2001 and at the Church of St. Gregory the Great, Manhattan – April 3, 2003.

65. “Marriage and the Theology of the Body” – invited lecture of the Manhattan Chapter of Legatus, Union League Club, New York City – April 5, 2001; same lecture at the Morris County Chapter of Legatus, Morristown NJ – May 31, 2000.

64. “Inspiration from Christian Art” – address for the Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Ceremony, Fordham University – May 11, 2001.

63. “Catholic Social Teachings” – invited lecture at the Archdiocesan Young Adults Congress in Manhattan –  April 28, 2001.

62. “St. Thomas More: Patron of Statesmen” – invited lecture at the Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville OH – February 23, 2001.

61. “Karol Wojtyla’s Love and Responsibility” – invited lecture for the Catholic Campus Ministry at Columbia University in Manhattan – February 15, 2001.

60. “Thomas More’s Utopia” – lecture for the Golden Jubilee of the Church of St. Thomas More in Manhattan – December 6, 2000.

59. “The Spirituality of Dante’s Divine Comedy” – four lectures at Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti MI – November 10-11, 2000.

58. “Examination of Conscience” – lecture for the Legatus Chapter of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids MI – March 23, 2000; same lecture for the Marian Conference held at St. Gertrude’s Parish in  Bayville NY – March 25, 2000; same lecture at the Church of the

Magdalen, Pocantico Hills NY – April 2, 2000; same lecture for the Legatus Chapter of St. Louis MO – April 18, 2000; same lecture at the St. John Neumann Residence, Bronx NY – October 7, 2000. Same lecture at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Ridgewood NJ 07450 – February 27, 2007

57. “Too Embarrassed to Pray? Techniques of Personal Prayer” – lecture for the St. Michael’s Men’s Association, Greenwich CT – March 15, 2000.

56. “The Cosmological Vision of C.S. Lewis in The Discarded Image” – invited lecture for the C.S. Lewis Society of New York – March 10, 2000.

55. “St. Thomas More and Catholic Humanism” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Chase Bank Building, New York City – February-April 2000.

54. “Paolo Segneri, S.J.: The Seventeenth-Century Background” – lecture at SUNY-Stony Brook, Book Presentation at the Center for Italian Studies – February 24, 2000.

53. “Dante’s Divine Comedy: How to Solve a Mid-Life Crisis” – lecture at the “Alumni College Day XIX” at Fordham University, Bronx NY – September 25, 1999.

52. “The Attributes of God” and “The Worship of the Father” – a pair of addresses at the Seventh Annual New York Archdiocesan Rosary Congress – “One God and Father of All” – Spellman High School, Bronx NY – April 23-24, 1999.

51. “Dante’s Inner Journey” – lecture at the Maspeth Public Library, Queen NY (New York Council for the Humanities Lecture Program) – March 27, 1999.

50. “Dante and the Tradition of Christian Culture” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Chase Bank Building, New York City – March-May 1999.

49. “Christian Art” – address for the Fordham University Communion Breakfast – February 28, 1999;  same lecture at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Bronx NY – June 11, 2000.

48. “Praying through Scripture” – lecture at St. Gregory’s Parish, Manhattan – February 24, 1999.

47. “Fides et Ratio: Pope John Paul II’s Latest Encyclical” – lecture to the Fordham Alumni Sodality –  October 18, 1998.

46. “Christian Philosophy Through the Eyes of a Poet: Dante’s Purgatorio Canto 18” – lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia PA – October 16, 1998.

45. “Even Philosophy Can Be a Way to the Father: An Introduction to the Thought of Pope John Paul II” – lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia PA – October 16, 1998.

44. “Augustine’s Confessions VII: Philosophical Discoveries Remove a Roadblock for Faith” – lecture at the “Alumni College Day XVIII” at Fordham University – September 26, 1998.

43. “The Reliability of the Gospels” — lecture at St. Gregory’s Parish, Manhattan – March 4, 1998.

42. “Is Everything in the Bible True?” – lecture for the Narnia Club, New York City – November 4, 1997; same lecture at St. Gregory’s Parish, New York City – November 15, 1997.

41. “Salvation and the Sacraments” – keynote lecture at the Conference on Evangelization at the University of Oklahoma, Norman OK – October 31, 1997.

40. “The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality”  – lecture for the Respect Life Group of St. Catherine of Bologna Parish, Ringwood NJ – October 11, 1997.

39. “Contraception: Why Not” – lecture for the Marquette University Respect Life Club, Milwaukee WI – October 3, 1997.

38. “The Bible’s Wisdom Books” – lecture at the “Alumni College Day XVII” at Fordham University, Bronx NY – September 27, 1997.

37. “Dante’s Inner Journey” – lecture at the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, Monticello NY, in the New York Council for the Humanities "Speakers in the Humanities Program” – July 16, 1997.

36. “Biblical Wisdom Literature” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Helmsley Hotel in New York City – March-May 1997.  A condensed version of this material as a lecture at the Phi Sigma Tau (National Honor Society in Philosophy) Induction Ceremony at Fordham University – May 2, 1997.

35. “Loyalty: Some Insights from Dante” – address at the Alpha Sigma Nu induction ceremony at Fordham University – March 20, 1997.

34. “The Sanctity of Life” – lecture for the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship" at Columbia University in Manhattan – February 14, 1997.

33. “The Four Last Things” – 1st annual “Last Lecture” for the Fordham University Honors Program, Bronx NY –  November 21, 1996; same lecture for Fordham Alumni Sodality – May 18, 1997.

32. “Bringing Original Sin Out of the Repair Shop” – lecture for the Fordham University Kiwanis Club – October 23, 1996.

31. “Holiness of Life” – address to “Americans United for the Pope” at Massapequa NY – September 12, 1996.

30. “The Meaning of the Human Body” – keynote address at the Natural Family Planning Conference, St. Cloud MN – September 7, 1996.

29. “In the Footsteps of Dante and Aquinas” – lecture at the Alumni College Day, Fordham University – April 20, 1996.

28. “The Mystery Hidden for the Ages in God” – eight lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Helmsley Hotel in New York City – March-May 1996.

27. “On Being Men and Women for Others After Graduation” – after-dinner speech at the Senior Awards Banquet, Fordham University – May 1, 1995.

26. “Human Rights and the Natural Law” – lecture at Dean’s Day, Fordham University – April 22, 1995.

25. “The Problem of Evil and the Book of Wisdom” for the College At Sixty Lecture Series, Fordham University at Lincoln Center – March 28, 1995.  Same lecture delivered on April 9th for the “Spring Conference” for high school seniors accepted to Fordham College and their parents – April 9, 1995; and in a modified version for the “Fordham Firsthand” programs – March 31, 1995 and April 21, 1995;  and for the Fordham University Kiwanis Club – May 9, 1995.

24. “Scholarship, Loyalty and Service: The Example of Father Joseph Fitzpatrick, S.J.” – address at the Alpha Sigma Nu induction ceremony at Fordham University – March 27, 1995.

23. “Grace, Sin, and Guilt” – lecture to the Wall Street Catholic Young Adult Club, Manhattan – March 15, 1995.

22. “Examination of Conscience” – lecture at St. Anthony’s Church, Hawthorne NJ – March 12, 1995.  Same lecture at the Midwest Catholic Home Education Conference, Ft. Mitchell KY – September 2, 1995; at the Inter-Varsity Christian Grad Fellowship at Columbia University in Manhattan – February 9, 1996; at St. Mary’s Parish in Katona NY – April 25, 1996; at Queen's Court Residential College of Fordham University – October 24, 1996; at Milwaukee Family Life Council meeting – October 4, 1997; at Thornwood Conference Center in Thornwood NY – November 15, 1997; Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Massapequa Park NY – March 21, 1998; at the Fairfield County Chapter of Legatus in Greenwich CT –  June 8, 1999.

21. “Papal Authority” – lecture to the Christifideles Association, St. Agnes Chapel in Manhattan – November 27, 1994.

20. “Blessed Peter Favre” – lecture to the Fordham Alumni Sodality – November 19, 1994.

19. “The Creed: Part I of the New Catechism of the Catholic Church” – lecture at St. Thomas More Church in Manhattan – November 1, 1994.

18. “So Many Words!  What Did Pope John Paul II Really Say in His Encyclicals?” – address to the conference of “Americans United for the Pope” at Massapequa NY – October 14, 1994.

17. “Authority and Obedience” – New York Catholic Forum – Sept. 14, 1994.

16. “Authentic Worship” – address for the ChristiFideles organization at the Marriott Hotel in Manhattan – April 24, 1994.

15. “Authority” – seven lectures for the Wethersfield Institute at the Helmsley Hotel in Manhattan –  “Why the Idea of Authority Troubles So Many Today,” “...And He Taught with Authority,” “Moral Matters,” “Church and State,” “The Origins and Limits of Legitimate State Authority,” “The Family: Genuine Authority vs. Personal Domination,” and “Personal Development and Authority” – January through March 1994.

14. “Learning from the Book of Wisdom” – address at the Campion Club, Scranton PA – December 1993.

13. “Have You Ever Read Roe v. Wade?  An analysis of Supreme Court Abortion Decisions” – lecture for the Boston College pro-life group in Chestnut Hill MA – March 1992.

12. “Is Jungian Psychology Compatible with Christianity?” – lecture to the St. Thomas More Society of Boston College in Chestnut Hill MA – February 1992.

11. “In Luther’s Backyard: Pierre Favre SJ and the First Generation of Jesuits in Germany” – address to the St. Thomas More Society of Boston College – November 1990.

10. “Chesterton Re-Appraised as a Social Thinker” – address at the 10th annual Fordham Chesterton Conference – November 1990.

9. “Sigrid Undset's World” – Dawson Seminar, Elmbrook Center in Cambridge MA – May 30, 1990.

8. “Religion and Jung’s Idea of the Unconscious” – at Hartford CT – April 1990.

7. “Dawson and the French Revolution” – address, Society for Christian Culture Conference, Steubenville OH – Oct. 1989.

6. “Newman and the Oxford Movement” – address at the Centennial Dawson Seminar, “Christening Culture,”  Elmbrook University Center, Cambridge MA – June 2, 1989.

5. “Jesuit Spirituality and Baroque Art” – paper (read in absentia by John Mulloy) at the Conference on Baroque Culture, University of Steubenville OH – October 8, 1988.

4. “The Historicity of the Scriptures” – Adult education group in the Diocese of Rochester in Rochester NY – February 1988.

3. “Fourteenth Century Messianic Expectations” – address at the Conference on Dante and the Tradition of Christian Culture, Baltimore MD – October 10, 1987.  Co-chair of the Conference.

2. “Temptations to Rationalism” – address at the Society for Christian Culture Conference, Steubenville OH – Oct. 1986.

1. “Kristin Lavransdatter: In-Laws and Out-Laws” – address at the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Chicago IL – March 1984.