Academic History
B.A., 1984, Government/Political Theory, University of Notre Dame
M.A.R., 1987, Religious Studies, Yale University Divinity School
Ph.D., 1993, Moral Theology, University of Notre Dame

Expertise
Moral Theology
Biomedical Ethics
Political Theology

Selected Publications
“Dying for One’s Friends:  The Martyrological Shape of Christian Love”,  Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 17 (1997), 121-142.

"Embryos, Clones, and Catholic Wisdom,"  Logos 4:3 (Summer 2001), 173-191.

“A Gift Abundantly Given: the Conciliar Roots of a Consistent Ethic of Life,” in Lucker and McDonough, eds. Revelation and the Church: Vatican II in the Twenty-First Century (Maryknoll: Orbis Press, 2003), 175-190.

Selected Presentations
"Textured in the Depths of the Earth:’ Faith, Science, and Prenatal Life,” delivered at the Annual Spring Meeting of the Catholic Medical Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. (May 2004)

“Caring for Those We Cannot Cure: Moral, Theological, and Pastoral Reflections on Tube Feeding,” keynote address to the Archdiocesan (St. Paul/Minneapolis) Spring meeting of “A Community Caring for Life” representatives. (April 2005)

Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Society of Christian Ethics
Catholic Theological Society of America