About Our Contributors

Jeffrey R. Adams holds an M.Div. from Theological Seminary and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He and his wife Karen Adams, who presented their jointly-authored paper at the 2007 UFL Conference, have worked until recently at Uganda Christian University in Mukono, Uganda. They presently reside in Scottsville, Virginia with their five children.

Helen Alvaré received her J.D. from Cornell University (1984) and her M.A. in from the Catholic University of America (1989). She has taught in the Catholic University of America School of Law and will join the law faculty at in 2008. She has previously worked at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, first in the Office of General Counsel and later as the Director of Information and Planning for the bishops’ pro-life office. She has often spoken for the bishops to the media and has testified on behalf of the bishops before federal congressional committees and lobbied members of Congress on federal legislation concerning abortion, health care and welfare reform.

Christopher Anadale is Assistant Professor of at Conception Seminary College in rural northwestern Missouri. Prior to his appointment at Conception, he taught full time at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in 2005.

Roberta Bayer is currently teaching as an adjunct at George Mason University. She received her doctorate from the and has done graduate work in both Medieval Studies and Political Philosophy. She is educating her children at home.

Francis J. Beckwith is a tenured Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University. Although his appointment is in the department of philosophy, he also teaches courses in political as well as in the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, where he served as its Associate Director from July 2003 until January 2007. A graduate of Fordham University (Ph.D., philosophy) and the Washington University School of Law (M.J.S.), he has published many books and articles. The most recent include Law, Darwin- ism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design (Rowman & Littlefield) and Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press).

Grattan T. Brown, S.T.D. studied at the Accademia Alfonsiana (Alfonsianum)

687 688 Life and Learning XVII in , Italy, writing a dissertation on the concept “institutional conscience” in Catholic health care. He has taught moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and will begin an appointment at in 2008.

Fr. Albert Bruecken, O.S.B., entered Conception Abbey in 1970 and was ordained in 1977 after doing undergraduate work at Conception Seminary College and studying theology at Collegio di Sant’Anselmo, the Benedictine House of Studies in Rome. He received a M.S. in Physical from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1980) and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (1987) from the same institution. He currently teaches Mathematics and Natural Sciences on the Faculty at Conception Seminary College.

E. Christian Brugger is an Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy and the Director of Integrative Research at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Arlington VA. He has previously taught at Loyola University (New Orleans) and will join the staff of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver in 2008. He received a B.A. in biology from Rutgers University (1987), an M.A. in moral theology from Seton Hall School of Theology (1994), a Th.M. in moral philosophy from Harvard University (1996), an M.St. in from Oriel College, Oxford University (1997), and a D.Phil. in the same from St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (2000). He is the author of Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition (2003) and has published in such venues as Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, The Heythrop Journal, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Thomist, Communio, The Josephinum Journal of Theology, National Review On-Line, First Things, and New Oxford Review.

Marcella Colbert graduated in 2005 from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Political Science. As a student she was involved with various pro-life activities, political campaigns and elections. She has served as the Associate Director of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis for the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin and has organized young adult programming for the diocese.

Peter J. Colosi earned his doctorate at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Austrian Program of Franciscan University of Steubenville. He may be reached at: [email protected]

Rev. John J. Conley, S.J. holds the Francis X. Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola College in Maryland. Recent books include The Suspicion About Our Contributors 689 of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France (Cornell University Press, 2002), Jacqueline Pascal: A Rule for Children and Other Writings (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Madame de Maintenon (University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Gregory J. Coulter is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. As his areas of specialization he lists the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of .

Damian P. Fedoryka obtained his graduate degrees from Fordham University and the University of Salzburg after receiving an at the University of Louvain. He has served as President of Christendom College and has taught at several universities, including Franciscan University of Steuben- ville and Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He has also done extensive lecturing and teaching in post-Communist Ukraine. His professional interests include the personalism of Karol Wojty»a/John Paul II and the philosophical analysis of the cultures of life and death. He has been involved in pro-life activities since 1970.

Maria Fedoryka, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She taught at Ave Maria College, at both its Michigan and Austria campuses, for two years before joining . Dr. Fedoryka specializes in the area of ethics, particularly on the nature of moral evil. She is an accomplished violinist. Dr. Fedoryka holds the degrees of B.A. from Christendom College, and both M.A. and Ph.D. from the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein.

Richard J. Fehring, Ph.D., R.N., is a Professor of Nursing and Director of the Marquette University Institute for Natural Family Planning. He received his masters and doctorate in nursing from Catholic University of America and baccalaureate degrees in biology and nursing from Marquette University. He has published over 90 book chapters and articles in such journals as Fertility and Sterility, Contraception, Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, and the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatal Nursing. Professor Fehring is the writer and editor of Current Medical Research (CMR) in natural family planning a publication of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning (a program of the USCCB). He is a board member of University Faculty for Life, the President of the Marquette University Chapter, and past president of the American Academy of Natural Family Planning. 690 Life and Learning XVII

J. L. A. Garcia is Professor in the Philosophy Department of Boston College. While revising this article, he spent the spring 2007 term as Visiting Professor in MIT’s Department of Linguistics & Philosophy. In addition to his academic articles, chapters, and reviews on the virtues, consequentialism, moral absolutes, relativism, value, desert, collective identity, racism, and other topics in moral and social theory, Garcia has written on a variety of topics in bioethics, including human cloning, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, artificial nutrition & hydration, and double-effect reasoning, and contributed to a 1992 collection, African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics, and its 2007 successor volume, African American Bioethics, both of them co-edited by Dr. Edmund Pellegrino and published by Georgetown University Press.

Laura L. Garcia is a member of the Philosophy Department at Boston College, specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Her recent work focuses on the nature of the human person and the significance of this for morality.

Anne Barbeau Gardiner is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at John Jay College, City University of New York. She has published two books on the Catholic poet and dramatist John Dryden: The Intellectual Design of John Dryden’s Heroic Plays ( Press, 1970) and Ancient Faith and Modern Freedom in John Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther (Catholic University of America Press, 1998). She has also published a number of essays on Milton, Pope, Swift, and Catholics of the late seventeenth century.

James G. Hanink, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola , has been active in pro-life work since 1972. His special interests include Thomism, personalism, and social philosophy. He has contributed essays, editorials, and reviews to several publications, both academic and general; he formerly served as Associate Editor of the New Oxford Review and a senior writer for the National Catholic Register.

Marie T. Hilliard holds graduate degrees in Maternal-Child Health Nursing, Religious Studies, Canon Law and Professional Higher Education Administra- tion; and she has an extensive professional background in medical ethics and public policy and advocacy. She is a practicing registered nurse who has been substantially involved in health-care regulation at the state and national levels. In addition, she is a canon lawyer and bioethicist and serves as a resource for the implementation of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services and Church-State Relations. She recently completed two terms as the elected president of the Connecticut League for Nursing and served on the Connecticut Statewide Steering Committee of the Coalition to Improve End-of- Life Care. She is chair of the National Advisory Council of the executive About Our Contributors 691 committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Dr. Hilliard continues to serve as a Colonel in the Army Reserve. She has been the acting Deputy Brigade Commander of the 5th Brigade, 98th Training Division, responsible for all U.S. Army Reserve medical training for the northeastern United States. Dr. Hilliard has been recognized for her contributions with the Meritorious Service Medal.

Brian V. Johnstone, C.Ss.R., is a Catholic priest and a member of the Redempto- rist Congregation. He received a S.T.D/Ph.D. in moral theology from the University of Leuven, 1976. In Australia he has taught at the Yarra Theological Union, in the Philippines at the Loyola School of Theology, in Rome at the Alfonsian Academy, the Gregorian University, and the Angelicum. He is now the Warren Blandings Professor of Religion and Culture at the Catholic University of America. He was written numerous articles on fundamental moral theology, on bioethics, and on peace and war. He has contributed to the work of ARCIC and to the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome.

David Jones is Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University College, London, where he is Academic Director in the School of Theology, Philosophy and and Program Director of the MA. in Bioethics. His books include The Soul of the Embryo (Continuum, 2004) and Approaching the End (Oxford University Press, 2007)

John Keown holds the Rose F. Kennedy Chair in Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Having graduated in law from Cambridge, he took a doctorate at Oxford. After being called to the Bar, he taught the law and ethics of medicine at Cambridge, where he held Fellowships at Queens’ College and Churchill College. His books Abortion, Doctors and the Law (1988), Euthanasia Examined (1995), and Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy (2002) have all been published by Cambridge University Press. His latest volume is Considering Physician-Assisted Suicide (Carenotkilling.org, 2006)

Jeff Koloze, Ph.D., is Campus College Chair for the College of Arts and Sciences at the Columbus (Ohio) campus of the University of Phoenix. He has taught communications, undergraduate and graduate English, and humanities courses since 1989 at several colleges and universities in the Cleveland, Columbus, and Springfield metropolitan areas. Dr. Koloze’s primary research interest is the presentation of the right-to-life issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia in American fiction. Most of his publications on these matters are available in previous UFL conference proceedings and on the web. His most recent book is An Ethical Analysis of the Portrayal of Abortion in American Fiction: Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Brauligan, and Irving. He 692 Life and Learning XVII can be reached at [email protected].

Rev. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, where he has taught since his priestly ordination in 1992. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Philosophical Quarterly and as Master of Queen’s Court Residential College for Freshmen. He regularly teaches courses on natural law ethics and on medieval philosophy. He has produced videotaped lecture-courses on “Aristotle’s Ethics” and on “Natural Law and Human Nature” for The Teaching Company. Among his recent publications is An Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: Basic Concepts (Malden MA: Blackwell, 2008). A course for The Teaching Company on “Biblical Wisdom Literature” in now in production.

Thaddeus Kozinski holds a B.A. from Villanova University, an M.A. from St. John’s College (Annapolis, Maryland), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America. He has previously taught at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy in Barry’s Bay, Ontario and will undertake a new post at in 2008.

Carolyn Laabs is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at Marquette University. She has been a family nurse practitioner in primary care since 1988, and currently practices in a clinic for homeless adults in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dolores Meehan is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she is currently working on a graduate degree in philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. She is the co- founder of the Walk for Life West Coast, and as one of eight children she is happy to debate almost any topic. She is an avid pro-life/pro-poor activist and has enjoyed over 12 years of serving the under-served communities both domestically and internationally–her many volunteer opportunities have included AIDS Hospice care with the Missionaries of Charity, volunteering in San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Room and bringing medical care to the Mayan people of Guatemala served by the Missionary of Charity Fathers.

John F. Morris, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Depart- ment of Philosophy at Rockhurst University. His specialty is contemporary ethics and medical ethics, and he currently serves as the Special Advisor to Bishop Finn for the Diocese of Kansas City/St. Joseph on the issues of Stem Cell Research, Cloning, and Human Embryos. He has presented and published numerous papers these and other philosophical topics. Most recently, Dr. Morris published an anthology on medical ethics from the Catholic perspective titled, Medicine, Health Care & Ethics: Catholic Voices (The Catholic University About Our Contributors 693

Press of America, 2007), which he edited and in which he authored a chapter on stem cell research.

Richard S. Myers is Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Kenyon College. He earned his law degree at Notre Dame, where he won the law school’s highest academic prize. He began his legal career by clerking for Judge John F. Kilkenny of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Myers also worked for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. His law practice focused on antitrust law and appellate litigation, including work on several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He taught at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law before joining the Ave Maria faculty. He has published extensively on constitutional law, including articles in the law reviews of Ave Maria School of Law, Catholic University, Case Western Reserve, Notre Dame, and Washington and Lee. He is a co-editor of St. Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law: Contemporary Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (Catholic University of America Press, 2004) and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (Scarecrow Press, 2007). Professor Myers is the President of University Faculty for Life and the Executive Secretary of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Professor Myers is married to Mollie Murphy who is an Associate Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law. They are the proud parents of six children.

Caroline B. Newcombe is an attorney and an adjunct faculty member at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, CA, where she teaches administrative law, transactions, and community property. She received her B.A. from the University of Colorado (Boulder), her J.D. from the , and her LL.M. from American University. She is a member of the California State Bar.

Jennifer Ohlendorf is a clinical instructor at Marquette University's College of Nursing. She earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing at Marquette University and a Master's degree with a focus on Women’s Health Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her professional interests all center on Women’s Health, with a focus on childbearing, breastfeeding, natural family planning, and fetal/neonatal loss.

Mattei Radu, J.D., holds an M.A. from the London School of . He is an adjunct professor in the Villanova University Center for Liberal Education in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His articles have appeared in New Oxford Review and in NextWaveFaithful.Com. 694 Life and Learning XVII

William L. Saunders, Jr., Esq. is the Senior Fellow and Director of the Family Research Council's Center for Human Life and Bioethics. Mr. Saunders earned degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Harvard Law School. He is a columnist for National Public Radio’s “Talking Justice,” for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and for Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. He has appeared often in the media, including BBC World News, CNN, Fox News, Vatican Radio, and National Public Radio. His articles on issues such as bioethics, the family, and Christian social responsibility have appeared in a variety of journals, such as First Things, Human Events, Human Life Review, The Legal Times, Communio, and Touchstone. Mr. Saunders is a member of the boards of the International Right to Life Federation, the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists, and the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. He is a founding member of Do No Harm: the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics. He is member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Law, Philosophy, and Culture at the Catholic University of America.

David L. Schindler has been the editor-in-chief of the North American edition of Communio: International Catholic Review since 1982. Formerly a Weaver Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar (Austria), Professor Schindler taught for thirteen years in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he received tenure in 1985 and, before that, for four years at Mount St. Mary’s College, where he received tenure in 1978. He has published over seventy articles in the areas of metaphysics, fundamental theology, and the relation of theology and culture. Professor Schindler is the author of Heart of the World, Center of the Church and of the forthcoming Ordering Love: Creation and Creativity in a Technological Age. Professor Schindler was appointed a Consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Laity in 2002. Since 2000 he has served as Provost/Dean at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America and is also the Edouard Cardinal Gagnon Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Institute.

Mark Shiffman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, specializing in philosophy, political theory and classical studies. He received his B.A. from St. John’s College (Annapolis) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and has taught at the University of Chicago, Brooklyn College, and the University of Notre Dame. He helped found the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago and serves on the advisory boards of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University and the Program in Faith and Politics at Christopher Newport University. Dr. Shiffman lives in Philadelphia with his wife Cristina and sons Bruno and Elio. About Our Contributors 695

Mary Shivanandan, M.A., S.T.L., S.T.D., is a professor of theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C., where she has taught since 1989. Her area of expertise is theological anthropology with an emphasis on the . Professor Shivanandan graduated from Cambridge University in England with a degree in Classics and received her licentiate and doctorate in Sacred Theology from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in 1991 and 1995 respectively. She is the author of numerous articles both academic and general, has contributed chapters to several books and is the author of Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II’s Anthropology (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1999), the fruit of her doctoral work. Professor Shivanandan’s recent academic articles include: “Body Narratives: Language of Truth?” in Logos 3/3 (2000); “Subjectivity and the Order of Love, “Fides Quaerens Intellectum 1/2 (2001), “The Anthropological Background of Fides et Ratio,” Anthropotes 17/1 (2001), and “Natural Family Planning and the Theology of the Body, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3/1 (2003). “The New Evangelization of John Paul II” was published in Hear O Islands: Theology and Catechesis in the New Millenium (London UK: Veritas, 2002) and “The Pope, Man and Woman” in The Achievements of John Paul II, Occasional Papers, vol. 3 (Oxford University Chaplaincy). Other articles include: “Person as Substantive Relation and Reproductive Technologies” (with J.A. Atkinson) in Logos 7/3 (2004) and “The Immaculate Conception and Theological Anthropology” in The Immaculate Conception in the Life of the Church (Stockbridge MA: Marian Press, 2004)

Richard Stith is Professor of Law at Valparaiso University School of Law. He received both his law degree and a doctorate in religious ethics from Yale University. From Harvard and from the University of California, Berkeley, he holds degrees in political theory. He has taught and published on comparative law and legal philosophy in the U.S., , India, China, Ukraine, Chile, and Mexico. Professor Stith has also directed the Program in Biomedical Ethics at St. Louis University School of Medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law and on the Academic Council of the doctoral program in law at the Universidad de Los Andes in Chile. Within the American pro-life community he is a member of the Advisory Council of the National Lawyers Association and the national boards of Consistent Life and University Faculty for Life.

Bernadette Waterman Ward took her A.B. from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Stanford. After having taught at the State University of New York, she currently is tenured at the . She has written World as Word: Philosophical Theology in Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Catholic University of 696 Life and Learning XVII

America Press, 2002) as well as numerous scholarly articles, mostly on nineteenth-century English literature. She serves on the editorial boards of The Hopkins Quarterly and the Newman Studies Journal. She is also a playwright, an activist for prolife causes, and, with her husband Dane Waterman, the homeschooling parent of three daughters.

Kimberly Zenarolla is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of America and the former Executive Vice President of the National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC). She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia, studied bioethics in Rome at the Regina Apostolorum, and earned a Master's in Theology from the John Paul II Institute at Catholic University. She is currently a Fellow for the Cephas Institute. A passionate speaker, writer, and debater on behalf of the sanctity of all human life, Kimberly has been a guest lecturer at universities, spoken internationally and appeared on many radio and television programs, including the Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, CNN and RNN TV and has been interviewed by The New York Times Magazine. She organized and spoke at a lecture series concerning ethical forms of stem cell research held at the U.S. Capitol for members of the House of Representatives and Senate and also testified before the Maryland State Legislature.