THEO150 Introduction to Catholic Moral Theology 2007 NOTRE DAME

Case #1: Campus Labor Action Project

Case #2: The Notre Dame Paradox

Case #3: Parietals, Social Life and the End(s) of Sex

Case #4: Marriage, Sex, and Procreation

Case #5: Tradition, Authority, and Freedom at Notre Dame

Case #6: Gay Marriage, Right Reason, and the Public Voice of the Church

Case #7: The Ministries of Women in the Church

Case #8: Inter-religious Marriage

Case #9: Self-Defense

Case #10: Just War and Pacifism

Case #11: Abortion and Embryo Adoption

Case #12: Racisim and Moral Dissonance in the Church

Case #13: Pastoral Responses to HIV/AIDS (Europe and Africa)

Catholic Social Teaching

Freedom, Sin and Conscience

Happiness and the Good Life

Sources of Discernment

1. Campus Labor Action Project, “Living Wage Report,” undated.
2.  “Mission Statement” and the “Notre Dame Victory March”.
3. Letters to The Observer, (Grant [9/25/06], Moran [9/26/06], McCabe [9/26/06]).
4. Sample Case: “The Notre Dame Paradox” (Atwood, Kaminski, Kiley, Packer, Wight and Zenk).
5. Constitutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross.
6. Division of Student Affairs, duLac: A Guide to Student Life (University of Notre Dame, 2005-06), p. 94-5.
7. Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Residential Life, “Final Report,” Spring 2005 [Download at http://osa.nd.edu/about/administrative-documents/]
8. Augustine, “On the Good of Marriage” in Sex, Marriage and Family in the World Religions, Don S. Browning, M. Christian Green and John Witte, Jr., eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), p. 100-105.
9. Thomas Aquinas, “The Reason Why Simple Fornication Is a Sin according to Divine Law, and That Matrimony is Natural” in Sex, Marriage and Family in the World Religions, Don S. Browning, M. Christian Green and John Witte, Jr., eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), p. 115-119.
10. Josef Ratzinger, “Bishops, Theologians and Morality” in Introduction to Christian Ethics: A Reader, Ronald P. Hamel and Kenneth R. Himes, eds. (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989), p. 359-372.
11. Bishop John M. D’Arcy, “Concerning the ‘Vagina Monologues,’” February 2006.
12. Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., “Closing Statement on Academic Freedom and Catholic Character,” April 5, 2006.
13. John C. Cavadini, “Open Letter to the University Community,” April 14, 2006.
14. Bishop John M. D’Arcy, “Pastoral Response to ‘A Closing Statement on Academic Freedom and Catholic Character’ by Father John Jenkins, CSC,” April 30, 2006.
15. Francis A. Sullivan, S.J., “Magisterium” in Magisterium: Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1983), p. 24-34.
16. Rebecca Alpert, “Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Case of Reconstructionist Judaism,” The Reconstructionist, Fall 2003, p. 33-42.
17. Ellen M. Umansky, “Jewish Attitudes Toward Homosexuality: A Review of Contemporary Sources,” The Reconstructionist, Oct.-Nov. 1985, p. 9-15.
18. Lisa Sowle Cahill, “Feminism and Christian Ethics,” in Freeing Theology: The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective, Catherine Mowry LaCugna, ed. (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 211-234.
19. Jack Wertheimer, “What Is a Jewish Family? The Radicalization of Rabbinic Discourse” in Don S. Browning and David A. Clairmont, eds. American Religions and the Family (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), p. 151-167.
20. Lois Lamy ’Ibsen al Faruqi, “Marriage in Islam,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 22.01 (1985), p. 55-68.
21. Augustine of Hippo, “On the Morals of the Catholic Church” in Basic Writings of Saint Augustine, vol. 1, Whitney J. Oates, ed. (New York: Random House, 1948), p. 319-357.
22. Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” and “Summa Contra Gentiles” [selections] in J. Philip Wogaman and Douglas M. Strong, eds. Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical Sourcebook (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), p. 89-105.
23. Richard M. Gula, “Conscience” in Christian Ethics: An Introduction, Bernard Hoose, ed. (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1998), p. 110-122.
24. Bernard Häring, CSsR, “Conscience: The Sanctuary of Creative Fidelity and Liberty” in Introduction to Christian Ethics: A Reader, Ronald P. Hamel and Kenneth R. Himes, eds. (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989), p. 252-280.
25. Josef Fuchs, SJ, “Basic Freedom and Morality” in Introduction to Christian Ethics: A Reader, Ronald P. Hamel and Kenneth R. Himes, eds. (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989), p. 187-198.
26. Thomas Aquinas, “Of Murder” in Summa Theologica [II-II, Q64], trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (New York: Benziger Bros., 1948), p. 1459-1466.
27. Richard McCormick, “Killing the Patient” in John Wilkins, ed. Considering Veritatis Splendor (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994), p. 14-20.
28. Josef Fuchs, “Good Acts and Good Persons” in John Wilkins, ed. Considering Veritatis Splendor (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994), p. 21-26.
29. Lisa Sowle Cahill, “Accent on the Masculine” in John Wilkins, ed. Considering Veritatis Splendor (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994), p. 53-60.
30. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy (Washington, D.C., United States Catholic Conference, 1986), p. 32-49.
31. Marciano Vidal, CSsR, “Structural Sin: A New Category in Moral Theology”, in History and Conscience: Studies in honor of Father Sean O’Riordan, CSsR, Raphael Gallagher, CSsR and Brendan McCovery, CSsR, eds. (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989), p. 161-180.
32. John Howard Yoder, “The Just-War Tradition in Its Medieval Context” and “Criteria of the Just-War Tradition” in When War Is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking, 2nd ed. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996), p. 8-18, 147-161.
33. Thomas Aquinas, “Of War” in Summa Theologica [II-II, Q40], trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (New York: Benziger Bros., 1948), p. 1353-1357.
34. Leonardo Boff, OFM, “Active Nonviolence: The Political and Moral Power of the Poor”, Pax Christi USA, Spring 1991, p. 22-23.
35. Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M., “Intervention, Just War, and U.S. National Security,” Theological Studies 65 (2004), p. 141-157.
36. Daniel Callahan, “The Roman Catholic Position” in Abortion: A Reader, Lloyd Steffen, ed. (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1996), p. 82-93.
37. James Tunstead Burtchaell, C.S.C., “Condemnation of Abortion and Infanticide in the Early Church” in Abortion: A Reader, Lloyd Steffen, ed. (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1996), p. 94-104.
38. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion” in Abortion: A Reader, Lloyd Steffen, ed. (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1996), p. 107-119.
39. “Catholics for a Free Choice” in Abortion: A Reader, Lloyd Steffen, ed. (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1996), p. 120-121.
40. John Van Regenmorter, “Frozen Out: What to Do with Those Extra Embryos” in Christianity Today, July 2004, 32-3.
41. James C. Peterson, “Is a Human Embryo a Human Being?” in Brent Waters and Ronald Cole-Turner, eds. God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003), p. 77-87.
42. Pontifical Academy for Life, “Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells” in Brent Waters and Ronald Cole-Turner, eds. God and the Embryo: Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003), p. 163-171.
43. George M. Anderson, “Theologians and White Supremacy: An Interview with James H. Cone,” America, November 20, 2006, p. 10-15.
44. Bryan N. Massingale, “James Cone and Recent Catholic Episcopal Teaching on Racism,” Theological Studies 61 (2000), p. 700-730.
45. Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Working Paper 189, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1988 .
46. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., “Civil Rights for All” in God, Country, Notre Dame (New York: Doubleday, 1990), p. 189-213.
47. Jon D. Fuller, S.J. and James F. Keenan, S.J., “Introduction: At the End of the First Generation of HIV Prevention” in Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention, James F. Keenan, S.J., ed. (New York and London: Continuum, 2000), p. 21-38.
48. Maurizio P. Faggioni, O.F.M., “An HIV-Infected Woman Seeking to Have Children” in Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention, James F. Keenan, S.J., ed. (New York and London: Continuum, 2000), p. 246-254.
49. South African Bishops Conference, “A Message of Hope: From the Catholic Bishops to the People of God in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland,” promulgated July 30, 2001.
50. Megan Lindow, “Lives in the Balance,” Time Europe, Vol. 166 No. 15, October 10, 2005.
51. Laurie Goering, “The Two-Front Fight: AIDS, the church,” Chicago Tribune, November 4, 2005.
52. Bishop Kevin Dowling, “An Explanation of What Has Been Reported about Bishop Dowling and AIDS/Condoms,” July 9, 2001
53. Bishop Kevin Dowling, “Making Connections: The Challenges of HIV to Faith Communities,” November 1, 2002.
54. Lawrence S. Cunningham, “A Reflection on ‘Mature and Exemplary Christians’”, Pax Christi USA, Spring 1989, p. 4-5.