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28Conjugal Union, What Marriage Is and Why It MattersCambridge University Press. 2014.This book defends the conjugal view of marriage. Patrick Lee and Robert P. George argue that marriage is a distinctive type of community: the union of a man and a woman who have committed to sharing their lives on every level of their beings (bodily, emotionally, and spiritually) in the kind of union that would be fulfilled by conceiving and rearing children together. The comprehensive nature of this union, and its intrinsic orientation to procreation as its natural fulfillment, distinguishes ma…Read more
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28Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues by Alasdair C. MacIntyreAmerican Journal of Jurisprudence 45 (1): 133-160. 2000.
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27The Definition of Moral Virtue. By Yves R. Simon (review)Modern Schoolman 68 (2): 179-181. 1991.
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21Reovirus protein σ1: From cell attachment to protein oligomerization and folding mechanismsBioessays 16 (3): 199-206. 1994.The reovirus cell attachment protein σ1 is a lollipopshaped structure with the fibrous tail anchored to the virion. Since it interacts with the cell receptor, σ1 is a major determinant of reovirus infectivity and tissue tropism. Studies on its structure‐function relationships have been facilitated by the fact that protein σ1 produced in any expression system is capable of binding to cell receptors. The use of site‐specific and deletion mutants has led to the identification and characterization o…Read more
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20The papal allocution concerning care for PVS patients: A reply to Fr. O'RourkeIn C. Tollefsen (ed.), Artificial Nutrition and Hydration, Springer Press. pp. 179--188. 2008.
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19Jacques Maritain and the French Catholic Intellectuals. By Bernard Doering (review)Modern Schoolman 64 (1): 60-61. 1986.
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18Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life, second edition by William E. MayThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9 (2): 392-394. 2009.
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18George, Robert. Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (4): 891-893. 1997.
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17The Eucharist and the Ministerial Priesthood a Reply to Kenneth Collins and Jerry WallsPerichoresis 18 (5): 3-19. 2020.In chapters 9 and 10 of their book Roman but Not Catholic, Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls criticize the Roman Catholic positions on the Eucharist as a sacrifice and on the ministerial priesthood. I reply to their historical and theological objections, and defend the belief that the Eucharistic sacrifice, the Mass, is a re-presentation, or making present, of Jesus’s redemptive sacrifice on Calvary, and a key component in God’s incarnational strategy for redeeming us.
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16Presentation of the Aquinas MedalProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 11-12. 2004.
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14Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (4): 633-634. 1997.
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12Human Dignity and Reproductive Technology (edited book)Upa. 2003.The March 2002 symposium Human Dignity and Reproductive Technology brought together philosophers, theologians, scientists, lawyers, and scholars from across the United States. The essays of this book are the contributions of the symposium's participants
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11The Role and Responsibility of the Moral PhilosopherProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56 70-78. 1982.
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10Bioethics: A Culture War (edited book)Upa. 2004.The purpose of this valuable book is to consider recent cultural trends in bioethics from a Catholic perspective. Bioethics is intended for a lay audience interested in understanding bioethical issues from a Catholic perspective
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9Back to 'Things in Themselves': A Phenomenological Foundation for Classical Realism (review)Review of Metaphysics 42 (4): 852-852. 1989.Seifert explains here the distinctiveness of the method of phenomenology and, above all, seeks to reclaim the method from the idealists and for classical realism. The main question of the book is: "In our knowledge, do we also discover besides the appearances and constituted aspects of things, 'things themselves,' i.e., essential structures and laws, and existents, which are in no way constituted by human consciousness?".
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7Presentation of the Aquinas MedalProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78 11-12. 2004.
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6The Strict and Broad Views of Intention AgainThe National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 22 (3): 479-494. 2022.I reply to Steven Jensen’s article, “Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: Recent Attempts to Revive New Natural Law Action Theory,” which appeared in this journal in 2020. His arguments helpfully clarify where the disagreements between the strict and broad views of intention lie but, I argue, fail to refute the arguments and explanations he criticizes. I argue he misinterprets the strict view’s reference to necessity in its criterion for what is intended. I also argue against what he labels as the “id…Read more
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