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    Catholics United on Brain Death and Organ Donation
    with Joseph M. Eble and John A. Di Camillo
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 24 (1): 141-159. 2024.
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    Let’s Make Rhode Island a State Where the Vulnerable are Loved
    Catholic Social Science Review 27 185-187. 2022.
    Physician Assisted Suicide is illegal in Rhode Island. The Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act would make PAS legal if passed into law and it was reintroduced in 2021 in the General Assembly of Rhode Island. This guest editorial was published in The Rhode Island Catholic in Newport, Rhode Island, on May 20, 2021.
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    Suggestion Is Coercion When It Comes to Death
    Catholic Social Science Review 27 183-184. 2022.
    Physician Assisted Suicide is illegal in Rhode Island. The Lila Manfield Sapinsley Compassionate Care Act would make PAS legal if passed into law and it was reintroduced in 2021 in the General Assembly of Rhode Island. This letter by SCSS Board of Directors member Dr. Peter Colosi of Salve Regina College in Rhode Island was written in response to that and was published in The Newport Daily News in Newport, Rhode Island, on March 18, 2021, and is reprinted in the Review with permission.
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    The Intrinsic Worth of Persons
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 15 (1-2): 3-22. 2003.
    This essay examines various sources of worth intrinsic to persons, and offers an overview of Peter Singer's ethical thought. Critics of Singer's ethical philosophy admit that there is a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to a definitive critique of his views. The "Singer Problem" is the notion that there are no facts intrinsic to persons capable of grounding their dignity and equality. Yet these are not so much critics as thinkers who do not like the conclusions that follow from unquestioned prem…Read more
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    The HHS Mandate
    Catholic Social Science Review 20 53-73. 2015.
    This three-part article will discuss: The approach of the U.S. bishops in order to thank them and praise their efforts against the HHS Mandate, while at the same time respectfully pointing out a certain oversight in their approach; some reasons not often mentioned for which the Obama Administration is enacting the HHS mandate; and some ideas on how most wisely to approach the question of contraception in the midst of the fight for religious freedom. The article, written in 2012, is preceded by a…Read more
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    The uniqueness of persons is explored philosophically in the writings of Max Scheler and Pope John Paul II.
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    This paper has grown out of concerns that I have about the way in which some pro-life arguments have been developing recently, and it is written in a spirit of frank dialogue with those whom I consider allies. I present three basic problems within some prominent contemporary pro-life argumentation, all three of which are rooted in a general tendency towards relying on empirical science in an increasingly exclusive way as the foundation of those arguments. The three problems that I touch on are: …Read more
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    Ratzinger, Habermas, and Pera on Public Reason and Religion
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 19 (3): 148-169. 2016.
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    Kraynak, Robert P. & Glenn Tinder, eds. In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for Our Times (review)
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 16 (1-2): 202-203. 2004.
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    Discussing the Spiritual Soul in the Classroom
    The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 18 (3): 417-426. 2018.
    There is a pedagogical method of bringing undergraduate students to conceive the body–soul question. Similarly, there is a simple philosophical argument in defense of the existence of the soul via contemporary autobiographical stories, recent neuroscientific literature, and Socrates’s distinction between condition and cause in Plato’s Phaedo. This method has proved helpful in enabling students to gain access to the mystery and grandeur of the body–soul question and its foundational importance wi…Read more
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    John Paul II and Max Scheler on the Meaning of Suffering
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 12 (3): 17-32. 2009.
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    Although Christian ethics and contemporary utilitarianism both employ terms such as love and compassion, they are in fact polar opposite ethical views. This fact is not at all easy to discern. One key to perceiving the radical opposition between them lies in clarifying their respective concepts of suffering. In the Christian view, suffering is always understood as the suffering of individual persons, while in utilitarianism suffering is primarily understood as a quantifiable entity detached from…Read more