University of Portland Pilot Scholars Garaventa Conferences Garaventa Center 2006 Teaching, Faith and Service: the Foundation of Freedom Fr. Bill Hund, C.S.C. University of Portland Margaret Monahan Hogan Follow this and additional works at: http://pilotscholars.up.edu/gar_conf Citation: Pilot Scholars Version (Modified MLA Style) Hund, C.S.C., Fr. Bill and Hogan, Margaret Monahan, "Teaching, Faith and Service: the Foundation of Freedom" (2006). Garaventa Conferences. 10. http://pilotscholars.up.edu/gar_conf/10 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Garaventa Center at Pilot Scholars. It has been accepted for inclusion in Garaventa Conferences by an authorized administrator of Pilot Scholars. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND___________ Teaching, Faith and Service THE FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM 2006 REV. WILIAM HUND, C.S.C. MARGARET MONAHAN HOGAN EDITORS CONTENTS Introduction Rev. William Hund, C.S.C., Ph.D. 7 Margaret Monahan Hogan, Ph.D. Section 1: Keynote Addresses Rev. David Tyson, C.S.C. 17 Living the Mission Lecture Fulfilling the Mission The Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. 23 The Garaventa Lecture Transparency in Theology: The Necessary Condition for Catholic Teaching Section 2: The Catholic University in America Rev. James T. Connelly, C.S.C., Ph.D. 31 Defining a Catholic University in the U.S.A.: The University of Portland as a Case Study Thomas P. Hogan, Ph.D. 41 Reflections on the Place of Research in Ex corde ecclesiae Rev. William Dorwart, C.S.C. 49 Union of Hope Eugene Torisky Jr. 57 Hearts and Bones: Culture, Dialogue, and Ex corde ecclesiae Section 3: At Work in the World Rev. William J. Byron, S.J. 69 Courage and Competence: Overlooked Virtues in the Search for Corporate Integrity Jude A. Huntz 77 Rethinking Retributive Justice: Moving toward Restorative Justice John O’Callaghan, Ph.D. 91 Sacred Monkeys and Seamless Garments: Catholics and Political Engagement 1 THE FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM David C. Cochran, Ph.D. 111 Catholicism, Pluralism, and Democracy in America Steven P. Millies, Ph.D. 117 Beyond “Basket Weaving:” Christian Humanism and the Foundation of Freedom Section 4: Philosophical Topics Laura Garcia, Ph.D. 135 Toward a Personalist Feminism Christopher Kaczor, Ph.D. 151 The Desire to Live and the Right to Life: A Response to David Boonin Christopher Toner, Ph.D. 159 Vitoria’s Integral Realism: Proportionality, Totality, and the Realism/Liberalism Dichotomy Sarah E. Martin 167 Toward a Definition of “Health” as Well-Functioning James Krueger, Ph.D. 179 The Practical Importance of Moral Teleology Section 5: Catholic Thinkers Arthur J. Spring, Ph.D. 189 Freedom, Truth, and Service: The Contribution of Jean Vanier Michael Herron 201 “A Wild Dedication …” Thomas Merton and the Emerging Catholic Paradigm Section 6: Interdisciplinary Work Shannon K. Mayer, Ph.D. 215 Intersections: Exploring Social Justice Issues in the Physical Sciences David H. Carey, Ph.D. 225 Pedagogy for Peace: The Pope’s 2005 World Day of Peace Message as a Teaching Tool Russell A. Butkus, Ph.D. and Steven A. Kolmes, Ph.D. 231 Global Climate Change and the Church in the Modern World: A Sign of the Times 2 CONTENTS Matthew J. Baasten, Ph.D. and Robert W. Duff, Ph.D. 253 Theological Challenges Posed by Cohabitation and Divorce John Brehany, Ph.D. 267 Germ Line Gene Transfer: A Case Study for Engaging American Culture Fred Herron, Ph.D. 281 Consuming Passions: Catholic Education and Consumer Culture Karen Eifler, Ph.D. and Kevin Fuller 289 It’s Time! The Pedagogy of Bridgebuiders as a Model of Social Justice Richard G. Wilkins, J.D. 297 International Law and the Family: Process and Outcomes of the Doha International Conference for the Family Section 7: Reflections Ralph McInerny, Ph.D. 313 Freedom Is Not Enough: Catholics in America Jonathan David Price 321 Relics of the Risen Christ: The Theology of the Body in Service Post Script Rev. Hugh Cleary, C.S.C. 329 To Those Who Love the Congregation of Holy Cross 3 INTRODUCTION 5 INTRODUCTION he papal document Ex corde ecclesiae rightly acknowledges that the Catholic university T is “born from the heart of the Church” to serve the good of humanity (§1) and the good of the church (§31). Moreover the document speaks of a critical kind of service that marks, or ought to mark, a Catholic university—“service as the proclamation of truth without which freedom, justice and human dignity are extinguished.” The Catholic university as Catholic and as university occupies a particular position and operates from a particular perspective in fulfilling its tasks to serve the good of humanity and the good of the church so that truth is ac- complished and proclaimed to serve justice, freedom and human dignity. Acknowledging the particularity of this position and of this perspective is not the articulation of a triumphal claim but rather the acknowledgement of a mission to be accomplished and to be celebrated. The mission of the Catholic university serves multiple ends in the transformation of the lives of those who live within its mission—both students who spend several formative years within its culture and the faculty and staff whose careers and lives are intertwined within the life of the university. Among those ends are: (1) the pursuit of truth as the end of the intellec- tual life; (2) the teaching and practice of service as appropriate to citizens of both the City of God and the City of Man; and (3) the development of the life of prayer and the celebration of liturgy as the appropriate expression and acknowledgment of our relationship to God who creates, sustains, and calls us. The University of Portland— Oregon’s Catholic University—in its work as faithful to its mis- sion as a Catholic university hosted two conferences in the spring of 2005 to address this mul- tifaceted role. The first conference, under the title Teaching, Faith, and Service: the Foundation of Freedom, welcomed academicians to campus to directly pursue the first goal—the pursuit of the intellectual life as service to humanity and to the Church. The second conference, under the title Living the Mission, welcomed student affairs and campus ministry leaders to the campus in the direct pursuit of the second and third goals—the teaching of service and liturgy as formative. This collection of some of the presentations from both conferences represents an attempt to share with the community of American Catholic universities the work of the conferences. The presentations are rich and varied in style, in authorship, and in topic. Some are deeply scholarly works and others have the appearance of sermons. Some are interdisciplinary and others are narrowly focused. Some are presentations by well-established and well-known ex- perts and others are the first presentations of young scholars. All are responses to the call for papers directed to scholars as well as to graduate and undergraduate students to contribute to the growth of the work of the Catholic university. The text begins and ends with papers from the Living the Mission Conference. The first paper, Fulfilling the Mission, is the work of Rev. David T. Tyson, C.S.C. Fr. Tyson, former presi- dent of the University of Portland and now provincial of the Indiana Province of Holy Cross, 7 THE FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM describes the work of the university within the context of the Church, the charism of Holy Cross, and the words of the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Fr. Basil Moreau. Fr. Tyson examines the challenges that are present to the Catholic university now and in the future. He calls the Holy Cross colleges and universities to be bold in their interface with the contemporary culture as they teach their students the truth and form them in justice. The final paper, the Post Script, is the closing sermon of Rev. Hugh Cleary, C.S.C., superior general for the Congregation of Holy Cross. It is entitled To Those Who Love the Congregation of Holy Cross. Fr. Cleary’s work is a reflection on the call to consecrated religious life — the call of Jesus, “Come and follow me.” He reiterates that call as an invitation to serve with love and zeal the mission of Holy Cross and the mission of the Church. The remaining papers have been selected from the conference Teaching, Faith, and Service: the Foundation of Freedom. The Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit delivered the inaugural Garaventa Lecture as the keynote ad- dress on the opening evening of the conference. In his lecture, Transparency in Theology, Judge Noonan recounts the development of doctrine in the history of the Catholic Church as it responded to new challenges. He claims that the Catholic Church should not deny the truth of corrections when they are made or the advances in the understanding of doctrine when they occur. Acknowledging the mystery of the church as divine and as human should provide confidence in the pursuit of truth and humility in the face of error. He maintains that the peo- ple of God committed to the culture of life depend on the culture of truth and the culture of truth requires transparency in theology. The papers in the second section focus on the task of the Catholic university in response to the papal exhortation Ex corde ecclesiae. This work of John Paul II called the Catholic universi- ties to a period of reflection on their mission and task. Whatever argument one may have with the content of Ex corde ecclesiae, there can be no gainsaying its influence. The first paper in this set is Defining a Catholic University in the U.S.A.: The University of Portland as a Case Study by Rev.