• The Happiness of “Those Who Lack the Use of Reason”
    The Thomist 80 (1): 49-96. 2016.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Happiness of “Those Who Lack the Use of Reason”Miguel J. RomeroHuman beings would have been created uselessly and in vain were they unable to attain happiness, as would be the case with anything that cannot attain its ultimate end.(De Malo, q. 5, a. 1, ad 1)A STUDY OF “those who lack the use of reason” in the thought and spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas has much to offer the patient reader. We better understand what it means to be a …Read more
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    Disability, Catholic Questions, and the Quandries of Biomedicine and Secular Society
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 20 (2): 277-310. 2020.
    This essay aims to show why it is important to ask questions about the way Christians raise the question of disability. The central, animating concern has to do with metaphysically thin and philosophically problematic understandings of disability and the way that concept is inflected within contemporary Catholic moral discourse in the areas of biomedical ethics and social theorizing. The essay has three parts. First, through the lens of Gaudium et spes, the author discusses the source of our con…Read more