Department of Theology
- Ph.D., Moral Theology/Ethics with a Minor in Systematics, Catholic University of America
- M.A., Theology, Dominican House of Studies (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception)
- B.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s College equivalent to:
- Double Major: History of Math and Science; Philosophy.
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Minors: Classics; Comparative Literature
- THE 812 (Ph.D. seminar) “Theology and Politics at the Vatican Councils,” Fall 2026.
- THE 616 “Advanced Moral Theology.” Franciscan University of Steubenville, Summer 2026.
- THE 615 “Moral Theology.” Franciscan University of Steubenville, Spring 2026.
- THE 730 “Grace and the Virtues.” Franciscan University of Steubenville, Spring 2026.
- THE 713 “Catholic Social Doctrine.” Franciscan University of Steubenville, Fall 2025.
- THE 115 “Christian Moral Principles.” Franciscan University of Steubenville, Fall 2025, Spring 2026.
- PL-240 “Influence of Philosophy on Theology.” St. Vincent College, Spring 2025
- PL-271: “Catholic Political Thought.” St. Vincent College, Spring 2025.
- PL-215H “Ethics and Moral Philosophy.” St. Vincent College, Fall 2024.
- CORE-3400: “Loving Seminar.” St. Vincent College, Fall 2024.
- PL 271: “Catholic Political Thought.” St. Vincent College, Spring 2023.
- TH 853: “Catholic Social Ethics.” St. Vincent Seminary, Fall 2023.
- PL 272: “Philosophy of Law.” St. Vincent College, Spring 2023.
- THE 115: “Christian Moral Principles.” The Franciscan University of Steubenville, Fall 2022.
- TRS 330: “The Church and Social Issues.” The Catholic University of America, Summer 2021.
Select Publications
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Pure Democracy and the Democratic Regime in Catholic Social Doctrine.” Lux Veritatis: A Journal of Speculative Theology, Vol. 2 no. 1 (2025): 29-61
- “Pierre Manent’s ‘Science of Political Form’ and Catholic Social Teaching on the Nation.” Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 53 no. 4 (2025): 213-222
- “Mendicant Charisms and Civic Virtue in the Thought of Leo XIII: Caritas in Veritate at the Origins of Catholic Social Doctrine.” In Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society, eds. Krijn Pansters and Anton Ten Klooster (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024): 205-224.
- “The Good of Authority in the Theology of Matthias Joseph Scheeben,” Nova et Vetera, Vol. 20 no. 2 (2022): 69-96.
BOOK REVIEWS AND ONLINE ARTICLES
- Forthcoming: Michael J. Sweeney and Timothy Sean Quinn, “A History of Catholic Political Philosophy.” In Perspectives on Political Science.
- Forthcoming: Andrew M. Yuengert, “Catholic Social Teaching in Practice: Exploring Practical Wisdom and the Virtues Tradition.” In Nova et Vetera
- F. Russell Hittinger, “On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law.” InThe Journal of Natural Law, Vol. 2 no. 1 (2026)
- Thomas P. Harmon, “The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine.” In Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 53 no. 3 (2025)
- D.C. Schindler, “Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition.” In Conversatio: A Journal in the Tradition of Catholic, Benedictine, and Liberal Education, Vol. 3 (2023): 156-159.
- Thomas C. Behr, “Social Justice and Subsidiarity: Luigi Taparelli and the Origins of Modern Catholic Social Thought,” Nova et Vetera, Vol. 21 no. 3 (2023): 1101-1106.
- Michael P. Krom, “Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought,” The European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 39 (2021): 84-85.
- “Oikonomia and History: Newman’s Critique of Henry Hart Milman and the Historicism of Ernst Troeltsch” Published in Newman Review, September 29th, 2021: https://www.newmanreview.org/2021/09/29/oikonomia-an
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