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    Sex and Virtue: An Introduction to Sexual Ethics

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    A Catechism for Family Life

    A Catechism for Family Life: Insights from Catholic Teaching on Love, Marriage, Sex, and Parenting

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Articles in Books

"Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion and the Ethical and Religious Directives," in Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care, Kevin T. McMahon, ed. (Wynnewood, PA: St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004), 68-92.

“Natural Family Planning and Marital Spirituality,” in Integrating Faith and Science through Natural Family Planning, Richard J. Fehring and Theresa Notare, eds. (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004), 29-45.

“Covenantal Sexuality.”  In Divine Providence and Human Freedom. Kevin A. McMahon ed.  (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books., 2015), Forthcoming.

“Not Just Love: The Anthropological Assumptions of Catholic Teaching on Same-Sex Attraction and Activity” in Justice and Diversity. Michael Sweeney, ed. (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2015), Forthcoming.

Familiaris Consortio: Anniversary Edition. With Commentary by John & Claire Grabowski. (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2015)    

“Foreword,” with Claire Grabowski. In The Infertility Companion for Catholics: Spiritual amd Practical Support for Couples. (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2012), ix-xi.

“Body, Theology of,” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009. (Detroit: Gale, 2009),  96-99.

"Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion and the Ethical and Religious Directives," in Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care, Kevin T. McMahon, ed. (Wynnewood, PA: St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004), 68-92.

"Natural Family Planning and Marital Spirituality," in Integrating Faith and Science through Natural Family Planning, Richard J. Fehring and Theresa Notare, eds. (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004), 29-45.

"Foreword" in Pope John Paul II, Theology of the Body (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1997), 19-24.

Select Online Publications

"The Theology of the Body according to Pope John Paul II" is Published on the U.S.C.C.B.'s "For Your Marriage website at http://www.foryourmarriage.org/the-theology-of-the-body-according-to-pope-john-paul-ii/ (Posted September 2008).

"Marriage as a Unitive and Procreative Partnership" is Published on the U.S.C.C.B. website at http://www.usccb.org/laity/marriage/npim.shtml (Posted November 2005).

Research Articles

“Catechesis and Moral Theology: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Christian Experience.” Nova et Vetera  13:2 (2015): 459-87.

“The Luminous Excess of the Acting Person: Assessing the Impact of Pope John Paul II on American Catholic Moral Theology.” Journal of Moral Theology 1, no. 1 (2012): 116-47.

"Dignitatis personae and the Adoption of Frozen Embryos:  A New Chill Factor?'  With Christopher Gross. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 10, no. 2  (Summer 2010):  307-28.

“Natural Family Planning and Marital Spirituality,” in Integrating Faith and Science through Natural Family Planning, Richard J. Fehring and Theresa Notare, eds. (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004), 29-45.

"Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion and the Ethical and Religious Directives," in Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care, Kevin T. McMahon, ed. (Wynnewood, PA: St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004), 68-92.

"Natural Family Planning and Marital Spirituality," in Integrating Faith and Science through Natural Family Planning, Richard J. Fehring and Theresa Notare, eds. (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004), 29-45.

"Called to Holiness: Spirituality for Families in the Light of Ecclesia in America," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 5, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 75-95.

"Called to Holiness: Spirituality for Families in the Light of Ecclesia in America," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 5, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 75-95.

"The New Reproductive Technologies: An Overview and Theological Assessment." The Linacre Quarterly 69 (2002): 100-19.

"Public Moral Discourse on Abortion: The Contribution of Theology," The Irish Theological Quarterly 64 (1999): 361-377.

"A Theological Analysis of Cloning," Homiletic and Pastoral Review 98, No. 9 (Spring 1998): 16-21; rpt. Ethics and Medicine 18, no. 3 (1998): 69-72.

"Mutual Submission and Trinitarian Self-Giving." Angelicum 74 (1997): 489-512.

"Rival Personalisms in 20th Century Catholic Sexual Ethics." Studia Moralia 35 (1997): 283-312.

"Conceptualism and Consequences: The Legacy of Locke's Essay." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 25 (1996): 273-85.

"Evangelium Vitae and Humanae Vitae: A Tale of Two Encyclicals." Homiletic and Pastoral Review. 97, No. 2 (November, 1996): 7-15.

"Covenantal Sexuality." Église et Théologie 27 (1996): 229-52.

"Chastity: Toward a Renewed Understanding." The Living Light 32, No. 4 (Summer, 1996): 44-51.

"Shooting Abortionists and the Death of the Pro-Life Ideal." New Theology Review 9 (1996): 33-40.

"Clerical Sexual Abuse and Early Traditions regarding the Sixth Commandment." The Jurist 55 (1995): 527-91.

"Newton, Hume and the Ethics of the Closed System." The Irish Theological Quarterly 61 (1995): 138-58.

"Person: Substance and Relation." Communio 22 (Spring 1995): 139-63.

"The Status of the Sexual Good as a Direction for Moral Theology." The Heythrop Journal 35 (1994): 15-34.

"Catholic Social and Sexual Ethics: Inconsistent or Organic?" With Michael Naughton. The Thomist 57 (1993): 555-78.