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May 2018: community
                                     july 2018: Love                                                                                               Sept. 2018:  LoyALTY                               nov.2018:       sEX      
  jaN 2019:  nationalism


bACK ISSUES: 1999-2018   



books


America in the United states and the united states in america
​iUniverse, 2018 (Summary)

missed opportunities: rethinking Catholic tradition,
republished, 2018 (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 Religious 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
NATIONALISM (jan. 2019)
​sex and the human male (Nov 2018)
the virtue of loyalty (sept 2018)
four loves (July 2018)
objectivity and the news (Feb 2018)
American religion, american priesthood (dec 2017)
speech is not free (Sept 2017)
do facts exist? (feb 2017)
sex, language and the Catholic church (sept 2016)
                                                     Papal Style (May 2016)                                           Toward The Future for Christians and Jews (Feb 2016​)                         
​ how the catholic church changes its doctrine  (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
Revelation
Natural Law
the moment when hilary lost the election
​A CALL FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION: U.S. RACE RELATIONS
THE BASIS OF ETHICS
a fallible Catholic Church 
what aid in dying means
humAN UNIQUENESS AND CHRISTIAN BELIEF
​can We Talk? A Conversation on Abortion
The Catholic Church and Abortion
​The Church's Foundational Crisis
responsibility, obligation, rights
post​-post modernity
Religion and the Nation-State
Teaching Catholic Religion
Is Religious Education Moral?
The American Creed and Religious Liberty
islamism and Christianism
the Catholic Church's 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 for 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
when did the catholic bishops stop believing in the soul?

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