Fr. Romanus Cessario, S.T.D.

Fr. Romanus Cessario, S.T.D.

Education

B.A. (1967) and M.A. (1968), Philosophy, St. Stephen’s College, Dover MA

S.T.B. (1970) and S.T.L. (1972), Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC

S.T.D. (1980), Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)

L.H.D. (2010),The Institute for the Psychological Sciences, Alexandria, VA

S.T.M. (2013), The Order of Preachers, Santa Sabina, Rome.

Research and Publications

Books

• Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982. [Reviews: New Blackfriars 64 (1983); Ciencia Tomista 111 (1984); Divus Thomas n.1–2 (1984); Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie 104 (1982); Scripta Theologica 18 (1986); Rassegna di Letteratura Tomistica 18 (1982); The Thomist 51 (1987)].‍
• The Godly Image: Christ and Salvation in Catholic Thought from Anselm to Aquinas. Studies in Historical Theology VI. Petersham, MA: St. Bede's Publications, 1990. [Reviews: Nova et Vetera 65 (1990); Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 67 (1991); Theological Studies 53 (1992); Nouvelle Revue Théologique 8 (1992); Tijdschrift voor Theologie 32 (1992); Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 40 (1993); Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 77 (1993); The Thomist 58 (1994)].‍
• Meeting Christ in the Sacraments by Colman E. O’Neill, O.P., and revised by Romanus Cessario, O.P. New York: Alba House, 1991.‍
• The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. Notre Dame/London:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. [Reviews: Studium 31 (1991); The Priest October 1991; America 18 April 1992; New Blackfriars 73 (1992); The Thomist 56 (1992); Revue Thomiste 92 (1992); Theological Studies 53 (1992); Homiletic & Pastoral Review February 1992; Salesianum 54 (1992); Horizons 19 (1993); Theology Digest 39 (1992); The Journal of Religion 73 (1993); Crisis February 1993; Modern Theology 9 (1993); Tijdschrift voor Theologie 33 (1993); New Oxford Review December 1993].‍
• Le Virtù. Volume 19 of Manuali di Teologia Cattolica (AMATECA), Sezione sesta: La persona umana. Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book, 1994. Spanish edition: Las virtudes. Valencia: Edicep, 1998. English edition: Virtues, or the Examined Life. New York: Continuum, 2002. [Reviews: Catholic Library World December 2002; The Thomist 67 (2003); Theology Digest 50 (2003); First Things November 2003; Theological Book Review 15 (2003); Josephinum Journal of Theology 11 (2004); Theological Studies 65 (2004); Nova et Vetera (Eng. ed.) 2 (2004)]. Croatian edition:  Kreposti. Zagreb: Kršćanska sadašnjost, 2007.‍
• Perpetual Angelus. As the Saints Pray the Rosary.  New York: Alba House, 1995.  [Reviews: The National Catholic Register 71 (1995); The Priest 51 (1995); The Homiletic & Pastoral Review 1995; The Catholic Faith 2 (1996); Miles Immaculatae 32 (1996)].‍
• Christian Faith and the Theological Life. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996. [Reviews: Crisis April 1997; National Catholic Register 73 (1997); The Dunwoodie Review 20 (1997); Homiletic & Pastoral Review July 1997; First Things August/September 1997; FCS Quarterly Summer 1997; Revue Thomiste 97 (1997); L’Osservatore Romano (No. 39 English Weekly Edition) 24 September 1997; New Oxford Review November 1997; The Thomist 62 (1998); Studia Moralia 35 (1997); Theological Studies 59 (1998); Nouvelle Revue Théologique 14 (1998); Pro Ecclesia 8 (1999); Scripta Theologica 57 (1999)].‍
• A Love That Never Ends. A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. With J.A. DiNoia, B.G. O’Donnell, P.J. Cameron. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1996.
• Jean Capreolus en son temps (1380-1444). (Mémoire Dominicaine, numéro spécial, 1). Edited with Guy Bedouelle and Kevin White. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1997. [Reviews:  Speculum 73 (1998); Medievalia et Humanistica New Series, No. 25 (1998); The Thomist 68 (2004)].
• Veritatis Splendor and the Renewal of Moral Theology. Studies by Ten Outstanding Scholars. Edited with J. A. DiNoia, O.P.  Chicago: Midwest Theological Forum, 1999. [Review: The Thomist 65 (2001)].
• Le thomisme et les thomistes. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1999. [Reviews: New Blackfriars 80 (1999); Angelicum 77 (2000); International Philosophical Quarterly 41 (2001); Revue Thomiste 100 (2000); Bulletin, Association Internationale Cardinal Henri de Lubac 3 (2000); The Thomist 65 (2001); Revue Philosophique de Louvain 99 (2001); Studia Monastica 43 (2001); Doctor Angelicus 1 (2001); Nouvelle Revue Théologique 124 (2002)].  English edition: A Short History of Thomism (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005) [Reviews:  Theology Digest 52 (2005); Commonweal 13 January 2006; Christian Scholar’s Review 35 (2006); The Modern Schoolman 83 (2005); Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006); First Things June/July 2006; Christian Scholar’s Review Winter 2006; Nova et Vetera (Eng. ed.) 4 (2006); Logos 9.4 (2006); The Catholic Historical Review 93 (2007); The Thomist 72 (2008)].
• John Capreolus (1380–1444): Treatise on the Virtues. Edited and Introduction with Kevin White. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001. [Theology Digest 48 (2001); Choice March 2002; First Things April 2002; Religious Studies Review July 2002; International Philosophical Quarterly 42 (2002); Theological Studies 64 (2003); Bijdragen 64 (2003); Pro Ecclesia 12 (2003); Revue Thomiste 104 (2004); The Thomist 68 (2004); The Heythrop Journal 46 (2005)].
• Introduction to Moral Theology. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001. [First Things August/September 2002; Choice September 2002; Homiletic & Pastoral Review October 2002; The Thomist 66 (2002); Theology Digest Fall 2002; Catholic Library World 73 (2002); Crisis January 2003; Nova et Vetera (Eng. ed.) 1 (2003); Indian Journal of Family Studies 1 (2003); Pro Ecclesia 12 (2003); Book symposium in Nova et Vetera (Eng. ed.) 2 (2004); Theological Book Review 16 (2004); Australian Catholic Record 83 (2006); Studies in Christian Ethics 33 (2020)].
• Boston’s Cardinal. Bernard Law, the Man and His Witness. Edited with a Biographical Essay by Mary Ann Glendon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. [The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) 18 May 2002; First Things June/July 2002].
• The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. Second Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. [The Heythrop Journal 51 (2010)]. Reprint of Chapter Four, “Prudence,” in Virtue, Readings in Moral Theology, no. 16, ed. Charles E. Curran and Lisa A. Fullham (New York: Paulist Press, 2011), 211–26.
• The Seven Last Words of Jesus. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2009. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taiwan: Catholic Window Press, 2010.
• The Seven Joys of Mary. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2011. French edition, trans. Guy Bedouelle, O.P., 2013. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuangchi Cultural Group, 2015.
• Philosophical Virtues and Psychological Strengths. Edited with Craig Steven Titus and Paul C. Vitz. Introduction. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2013. [New Oxford Review November (2013); Nova et Vetera (Eng. ed.) 14 (2016)].
• Introduction to Moral Theology. Revised Edition. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
• The Seven Sorrows of Mary. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2014. French edition, trans. Catherine Mas–Mézéran, 2017. Spanish edition, trans. Pablo Cervera Barranco, 2017. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuangchi Cultural Group, 2019.
• Theology and Sanctity, ed. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, 2014. [Studies in Christian Ethics 29 (2016); New Blackfriars 97 (2016)].
• Compassionate Blood: Catherine of Siena on the Passion. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2016.
• Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters, with Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017. [First Things April 2018; Wisconsin Bookwatch September 2017; New Blackfriars 100 (2019); Sedes Sapientiae 146 (2018); Nova et Vetera (Eng. ed) 17 (2019); Espíritu 157 (2019); Revue Thomiste 119 (2019); Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 39 (2019)]. Spanish edition: Tomás Y Los Tomistas: El Logro de Tomás De Aquino y sus intérpretes. Toledo: Ediciones Cor Iesu, 2021.
• The Grace to Be a Priest. Cluny Media, 2017. [The Catholic World Report http://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/04/18/dominican-theologian-the-goal-of-the-priesthood-is-to-get-people-to-heaven/ accessed 18 April 2018].
• The Godly Image. Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 2020.
• Sanctifying Truth: Thomas Aquinas on Christian Holiness. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2021.
• The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023.

Articles

• “Theology at Fribourg,” The Thomist 51 (1987): 325–366.
• “The Meaning of Virtue in Catholic Moral Life: Its Significance for Human Life Issues,” The Thomist 53 (1989): 173–96.
• “Casuistry and Revisionism:  Structural Similarities in Method and Content,” in “Humanae Vitae”: 20 Anni Dopo. Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Theologia Morale, vol. III (Milano: Edizioni Ares, 1990): 385–409.
• “Christian Satisfaction and Sacramental Reconciliation,” Communio 16 (1989): 186–196.  Reprinted in Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments: Studies in Sacramental Theology, ed. M. Levering and M. Dauphinais (Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2009), pp. 65–75.
• “Aquinas on Nature and Grace” in Catholicism and Secularization in America, ed. David L. Schindler (Notre Dame, IN: Communio Books, 1990): 207–10.
• “La tradition thomiste et l’oeuvre de l’Esprit: les dons d’intelligence et de science,” Nova et Vetera 65 (1990): 259–267.
• “Christ and Reconciliation,” Faith & Reason 17 (1991):  15-50.
• “Lacordaire et les États-Unis,” in Lacordaire, son pays, ses amis et la liberté des ordres religieux en France, ed. Guy Bedouelle (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1991):  333–347.
• “A Thomist Interpretation of Faith: The Gifts of Understanding and Knowledge,” in Novitas et Veritas Vitae. Aux Sources du Renouveau de la Morale Chrétienne. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Servais Pinckaers à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, ed. Carlos–Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1991): 67–102.
• “Incarnate Wisdom and the Immediacy of Christ’s Salvific Knowledge,” in Problemi teologici alla luce dell'Aquinate (Atti del IX Congresso Tomistico Internazionale). Studi Tomistici 44 (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1991):  334–340.
• “St. Thomas Aquinas on Satisfaction, Indulgences, and Crusades,” Medieval Philosophy & Theology 2 (1992): 74–96.
• “Virtue Theory and the Present Evolution of Thomism,” in The Future of Thomism, ed. Deal W. Hudson and Dennis Wm. Moran (Notre Dame, IN:  American Maritain Association, 1992): 291–299.
• “An Observation on Robert Lauder’s Review of G.A. McCool, S.J.,” The Thomist 56 (1992): 701–710.
• “Lacordaire and the United States,” The Catholic Historical Review 78 (1992): 197–206.
• “Boethius, Christ, and the New Order,” Carmina Philosophiae 1 (1992):  53-64.  Reprinted in New Directions in Boethian Studies, ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Philips, Studies in Medieval Culture XLV  (Kalamazoo:  Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), 157–168.
• “Is Aquinas’s Summa Only About Grace,” in Ordo Sapientiae et Amoris.  Hommage au Professeur Jean-Pierre Torrell OP à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, ed. Carlos–Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1993): 197–209. Reprinted in Reason and the Rule of Faith, ed. Christopher J. Thompson and Steven A. Long (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011), 43–53.
• “Moral sexual christiana dentro de una estructura más amplia,” AnáMnesis 3 (1993):  5–25.
• “Le Père Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964),” Sources 20 (1994): 206–208.
• “Early Dominican Confessional Practice,” New Blackfriars 75 (1994): 425–428. [French translation: “Les Premiers Dominicains et la confession,” Mémoire Dominicaine 5 (1994): 283–286.]
• “The Church, Higher Education, and Global Concerns,” Josephinum Journal of Theology 2 (1995): 25–33.
• “Moral Absolutes in the Civilization of Love” in The Splendor of Truth and Health Care, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Russell E. Smith, (Braintree, MA: The Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, 1995): 43–57. Reprinted in Crisis 13 (May, 1995): 18–23.
• “Boèce, le Christ et la civilisation européenne,” Pierre d’angle 1 (1995): 51–60.
• “Toward Understanding Aquinas’ Theological Method: The Early Twelfth–Century Experience” in Studies in Thomistic Theology, ed. Paul Lockey (Notre Dame, IN:  Center for Thomistic Studies, 1995): 17–89.
• “Epieikeia and the Accomplishment of the Just” in Aquinas and Empowerment:  Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives, ed. G. Simon Harak (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996): 170–205.
• “The Spirituality of St. Thomas Aquinas,” Crisis 14 (July/August 1996): 14–16.
• “Evangelization and Our Present Circumstances: In Praise of Virtue” in The Church’s Mission of Evangelization, ed. William E. May, (Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 1996): 129–152.
• “Éloge des vertus chrétiennes pour un temps de crise,” Pierre d’angle 2 (1996): 53–71.
• “Saint Thomas, Durand de Saint-Pourçain et Capreolus: Le Débat sur la foi” in Jean Capreolus en son temps (1380-1444), ed. Guy Bedouelle, Romanus Cessario, and Kevin White ( Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1997): 159–164. 
• “Christian Virtue and Public Morality,” Rivista Teologica di Lugano 2 (1997): 27–42.
• “À nos lecteurs: sur le paradoxe de l’existence chrétienne entre foi et modernité. La foi comme Dieu l'a révélée,” Pierre d’angle 3 (1997): 18–26.
• “On Bad Actions, Good Intentions, and Loving God: Three Much-Misunderstood Issues about the Happy Life that St. Thomas Clarifies for Us,” Logos 1.2 (1997): 100–124.
• Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine, ed. Russell Shaw (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1997), s. vv. “Assent and Dissent,” “Atheism,” “Bishop,” “Celibacy, Priestly,” “Deacon,” “Holy Orders,” “Ministry,” “Modernism,” “Priest,” and “Priesthood of Christ.”
• “Theological Literacy and Theological Science” in Boston Theological Institute Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 24 (18 Mar 1998): 1–2.
• “More Good News,” Catholic Dossier 4.2 (March-April 1998): 54–55.
• “The Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, Person of Love,” Catholic International 9 (May 1998): 220–224.
• Dizionario di Mistica, ed. L. Borriello, et al. (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1998), s. vv. “Tommaso D’Aquino (santo)” and “Garrigou-Lagrange, Reginald.”
• “The D.E.S. Motto and the Benedictine Tradition: A Thomistic Connection,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal 43 (1998): 88–90.
• “St. Therese, Seminarians, and the Future,” Catholic Dossier 4.6 (November-December 1998): 14–16.
• “John Poinsot: On The Gift of Counsel” in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education, ed. Daniel McInerny (Mishawaka: American Maritain Association, 1999): 163–178.
• “The Reason for Reason: Fides et Ratio,” Crisis 17 (January 1999): 16–19.
• “Thomas Aquinas: A Doctor for the Ages,” First Things (March 1999): 27–32.  Reprinted in The Second One Thousand Years. Ten People Who Defined the Millennium, ed. Richard John Neuhaus (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001): 28–39.
• “Reply to Professor Gilbert Morris,” First Things (June/July 1999): 7.
• “Fides et Ratio. Un appel à la vérité et à la réconciliation,” Pierre d’angle 5 (1999): 32–38.
• “What the Angels See at Twilight,” Communio 26 (Fall 1999): 583–594. [French translation: “Ce que les anges voient au crépuscule,” Communio 25 (nov.–déc. 2000): 41–51.]
• “Custodia Condicional de la Vida Humana. Un principio moral de Juan Pablo II” in El Dios y Padre de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, ed. José Luis Illanes et al., (Pamplona: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2000): 427–432.
• “Infallible Teaching and the Gift of Divine Truth,” Catholic Dossier 6.3 (May- June 2000): 5–8.
• “Un “salut civil”? Vie et famille dans la doctrine catholique,” Pierre d’angle 6 (2000): 185–97.
• “Sacramental Confession and Addictions” in Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Edward J. Furton (Boston, MA: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2000): 125–139.
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jubilee Volume: The Wojtya Years, s.v. “Schönborn, Christoph.”
• “Towards an Adequate Method for Catholic Bioethics,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (2001): 51–62.
• The Dictionary of Historical Theology, ed. Trevor A. Hart (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001), s.v. “Gilson, Étienne (1884–1978).”
• “En partant d’une chanson de Gershwin...,” Pierre d’angle 7 (2001): 41–47.
• “Duplex ordo cognitionis,” Doctor Communis II, n.s., Atti della II Sessione Plenaria, 22-24 Giugno 2001 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2002): 102–109; 141–142.
• “The Theological Virtue of Hope (IIa IIae qq. 17-22)” in The Ethics of Aquinas, ed. Stephen J. Pope (Washington, DC:  Georgetown University Press, 2002), pp. 232–243.
• “The Sacramental Mediation of Divine Friendship and Communion,” Faith & Reason 27 (2002): 7-41.
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2^nd ed., vol. 4, s.v. “Consequentialism.” 
• New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2^nd ed., vol. 3, s.v. “Casuistry,” with E. Hamel.
• “Mary in the Dominican Tradition,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 1 (2003): 27–42.
• “Entendre les Mystères. Musique liturgique et foi théologale,” with Jonathan Gaspar, Pierre d’angle 9 (2003): 135–50.
• “Cooperation, Veritatis splendor, and the Luminous Mysteries” in Walk as Children of Light: The Challenge of Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society:  Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Edward J. Furton (Boston, MA:  The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2003): 47–67.
• “Life and Family as Themes in Catholic Social Thought” in Indubitanter ad Veritatem.  Studies Offered to Leo J. Elders, S.V.D. in Honor of the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood, ed. Jörgen Vijgen (Budel: Damon, 2003), pp. 69–79.
• “Aquinas on Christian Salvation” in Aquinas on Doctrine. A Critical Introduction, ed. Thomas Weinandy, Daniel Keating, John Yocum (London: T&T Clark International, 2004), pp. 117–37.
• “Response” in Book Symposium, Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 2 (2004): 208–10.
• “Mel Gibson and Thomas Aquinas: How the Passion Works,” ZENIT, 9 April 2004.  Available from englishzenit@zenit.org, INTERNET. [German translation: “Wie die Passion Christi die Erlösung bewirkt–Mel Gibson und Thomas von Aquin,” Una Voce–Korrespondenz 34 (2004): 131–38.]
• “Conditional Stewardship of Life: A Moral Principle of John Paul II” in Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care, ed. Kevin T. McMahon (Overbook, PA: Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004), pp. 120–38.
• “Sex, Lies, and Freud,” Logos 7.3 (2004): 47–59.
• “Mel Gibson et saint Thomas d’Aquin: Un regard théologique sur La Passion du Christ,” Pierre d’angle 10 (2004): 185–94.
• “Why Aquinas Locates Natural Law within the Sacra Doctrina,” in St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition. Contemporary Perspectives, ed. John Goyette, Mark S. Latkovic, and Richard S. Myers (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. 79–93.
• “The Light of Tabor: Christian Personalism and Adoptive Friendship,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 2 (2004): 237–47. Reprinted in L’Antropologia della Teologia Morale Secondo L’Enciclica “Veritatis Splendor.” Atti del Simposio promosso dalla Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, Roma, settembre 2003 (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2006), pp. 92–101.
• “Mel Gibson’s Movie & Thomas Aquinas’s Modes: How the Passion of the Christ Works,” Saint Austin Review 4 (2004): 27–32.  [Dutch translation:  “Mel Gibson en Thomas van Aquino over de Passie van Christus” in Doctor Humanitatis, vol. 1, De actualiteit van Sint-Thomas van Aquino, ed. Jörgen Vijgen (Hoofddorp: Uitgeverij Boekenplan, 2005).]  “Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion’ & Aquinas’s Five Modes: How the Passion of Christ Works,” The Premier International Fan Website, Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.”  Available here, INTERNET.]
• “Walk According to the Light. An Illustration from North America” in Camminare nella Luce. Prospettive della teologia morale a partire da ‘Veritatis splendor,’” ed. Livio Melina and José Noriega (Rome: Lateran University Press, 2004), pp. 401–07.
• “Capreolus on Faith and the ‘Theologal’ Life” in: Essays in Medieval Philosophy and Theology in Memory of Walter H. Principe, CSB:  Fortresses and Launching Pads, ed. James R. Ginther and Carl N. Still (Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005), pp. 135–141.
• “Duplex Ordo Cognitionis” in Reason and the Reasons of Faith, ed. Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), pp. 327–338.
• “‘Worthy of the Temple’:  Liturgical Music and Theologal Faith,” with Jonathan Gaspar, Nova et Vetera, English Edition 3 (2005): 673–688.
• “Catholic Hospitals in the New Evangelization,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 675–686.
• “Person & Being: Theological and Psychological Considerations,” Doctor Communis, Atti della IV Sessione Plenaria, 25–27 Giugno 2004 (Vatican City:  Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2006): 75–84.
• “‘Circa res ...aliquid fit’ (Summa theologiae II-II, q. 85, a. 3, ad 3): Aquinas on New Law Sacrifice,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition 4 (2006):  295–312.
• “The Sacred, Religion, and Morality,” Doctor Communis VII, n.s., Atti della V Sessione Plenaria, 24-26 Giugno 2005 (Vatican City:  Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2006): 173–186.
• “Johannes Capreolus” in Thomistenlexikon, ed. David Berger & Jörgen Vijgen (Bonn: Nova & Vetera Verlag, 2006), pp. 302–311.
• “The Sacred, Religion, and Morality,” Logos 9.4 (2006): 16–32.
• “Catholic Considerations on Palliative Care,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 6 (2006): 639–650.
• “Moral Theology on Earth: Learning from Two Thomases,” Studies in Christian Ethics 19 (2006): 305–322.
• “Hommage au Père Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, OP. The Significance of His Work,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5 (2007): 1–16.
• “The Theological Heritage of Pope Benedict XVI,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5 (2007): 267–270.
• “Moral Realism and Christian Values” in The Person and the Polis. Faith and Values within the Secular State, ed. Craig Steven Titus (Arlington, VA:  The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 2007), pp. 153–73.
• “Tanquam spiritualis pulchritudinis amatores. The Consecrated Vocation of Matthew Lamb” in Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship.  Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb, ed. Michael Dauphinais & Matthew Levering (Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007), pp. 17–45.
• “Saint Thomas and the Enculturation of the Natural Law: Doing Moral Theology on Earth,” Doctor Communis, Atti della VI Sessione Plenaria, 23–25 Giugno 2006 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2007): 41–53.
• “Reply to Edward T. Oakes, S.J.,” First Things (October 2007): 8–9.
• “Thomas d’Aquin, apôtre du sens commun,” Pierre d’angle 13 (2007): 49–56.
• “Sonship, Sacrifice, and Satisfaction: The Divine Friendship in Aquinas and the Renewal of Christian Anthropology,” Letter & Spirit 3 (2007): 71–93.
• “In Honor of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.:  Priest, Scholar, and Living Memory,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008):  245–246.
• “The Sacraments of the Church” in Vatican II. Renewal Within Tradition, ed. Matthew L. Lamb & Matthew Levering (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 129–146.
• “On Moral Theology” in Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition, ed. David L. Schindler, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), pp. 297–302.
• “Scholarship and Sanctity,” Second Spring 10 (2008): 13–20.
• “Love, Friendship, and Beauty: On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of a Magisterial Document about Religious Life and the Apostolate, Logos 11.4 (2008): 147–163.
• “The Quarry Workers,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 669–674.
• “Humanae Vitae, the Maritains, and Maurice Sachs,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 711–730.
• “Freedom and Satisfaction” in The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom, ed. Peter A. Pagan & Terese Auer, O.P., (Washington, DC: American Maritain Association, 2009), pp. 207–225.
• “O que os anjos vêem: natureza e graça,” Lumen Veritatis 2, N○ 5 (2008): 121–25.
• “On the Place of Servais Pinckaers († 7 April 2008) in the Renewal of Catholic Theology,” The Thomist 73 (2009): 1–27.
• New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009. 2 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2009), 1: 191–193, s. v. “Consequentialism.” 
• “Hommage au Père Servais Pinckaers, O.P.:  L’importance de son oeuvre” in Renouveler toutes choses en Christ. Vers un renouveau thomiste de la théologie morale, ed. Michael S. Sherwin, O.P., and Craig Steven Titus, Etudes d’éthique chrétienne, NS 5 (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2009), pp. 6–19.
• “Saint Thomas Aquinas: ‘The Apostle of Common Sense,’” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 7 (2009): 563–68.
• “Realismo Morale E Legge Naturale,” in Come insegnare Teologia Morale?  Prospettive di rinnovamento nelle recenti proposte di esposizione sistematica, ed. Livio Melina & Stephan Kampowski, Studie sulla persona e la famiglia, Atti 3 (Siena: Edizioni Cantagalli, 2009), pp. 91–105.
• “Maurice Sachs et les Maritain,” Pierre d’angle 15 (2009): 127–144.
• “Aquinas on the Priest: Sacramental Realism and the Indispensable and Irreplaceable Vocation of the Priest,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 8 (2010): 1–15.
• “Scholarship and Sanctity: A Lesson Aquinas Teaches the Priest and Seminarian,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 8 (2010): 233–49.
• New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2010. 2 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2010), 1: 205–208, s. v. “Cardinal Virtues.”
• “Remarks on Sin and Indulgence,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 9 (2011): 99–108.
• “Blessed John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Sermon Preached at the Toronto Oratory, October 3, 2010,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 9 (2011): 261–66.
• “Seek Out the Harmonies between Faith and Reason,” The Catholic Social Science Review 16 (2011): 331–37.
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