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Missed Opportunities: Rethinking Catholic Tradition. iUniverse, 2016 (summary)

Uniquely Human: The Basis of Human Rights, XLibris, 2013
(complete text)

Talking about Dying: Memoirs and Essays, , Create Space, 2012
(complete text)

Living Nonviolently: Language for Resisting Violence, Lexington, 2011 (complete text)
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Believing in a Revealing God. Liturgical Press, 2009
(complete text)

Both Sides: The Story of Revelation, Paulist 2002
(Complete Text)

Speaking of Teaching: Lessons from History, Lexington, 2008
(complete text)

​Fashioning a People Today, 23rd Publications, 2007

Reshaping Relgious Education, Westminster Knox, 1998

Showing How: The Act of Teaching, 1997

A Grammar of Responsibility, Crossroad, 1996

Uniqueness: Problem or Paradox, Orbis Books, 1992


​Selections from The Alternative

Papal Style (May 2016)
Toward the Future for Christians and Jews (Feb 2016
How Catholic Church doctrine changes (Dec 2015)
Family Marriage and Partnership Marriage (Sept 2015)
Is Nature or God Real? (May 2015)
Old Men Living Alone (Feb 2015)
On Being Religious (Sept 2014)
Slavery: Country and Church (May 2014)
Forgiveness: An Attitude to the Past and the Future (Feb 2014)




Essays
the moment when hilary lost the election
Natural Law and Catholic Moral Teaching
Is the Catholic Church always fallible?
humAN UNIQUENESS AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF
​A Call for Truth and Reconciliation: U.S. Race Relations
Can We Talk? A Conversation on Abortion
The Catholic Church and Abortion
​The Church's Foundational Crisis
The Catholic Church's Misplaced Defense of Natural Law
responsibility, obligation, rights
​Post-post Modernity
Religion and the Nation-State
Teaching Catholic Religion
Is Religious Education Moral?
The Basis of Ethics
aid in dying
The American Creed and Religious Liberty
islamism and Christianism
The Catholic Church's Official and Non-Official Teaching on Contraception
Gays, lesbians and homosexual orientation​ 
The Virtues of War
a Misplaced Metaphor: Church and State
​Two Crises of Faith: Church and Country
Logic of Fiction, Logic of Religion​
Would Women Deacons Be Progress in the Catholic Church?
Liberty and Freedom
​On Being Deeply Conservative
European Union and the United States
The Twitter Campaigns of Donald Trump and Pope Francis
Relativism and the Relative