EDUCATION
S.T.L. Systematic Theology Dominican House of Studies
S.T.D. Systematic Marian Studies International Marian Research Institute
M.A. Religious Studies Providence College
M.A. Christian Philosophy Marquette University
B.A. Philosophy Saint Vincent College
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Liturgical Theology, Marian Theology, Philosophical and Theological Anthropology
RECENT COURSES
THE 1310 Understanding the Bible
THE 5356 Mariology
TMIN 5380 Introduction to Pastoral Care
TMIN 6370 Ministry in the Church
TMIN 6371 Pastoral Administration
TMIN 7360 Sacramental Ministry of the Priest and Deacon
HUM 6360 Augustine the Teacher
BOOKS
Elohim Created: A New Look at the First Creation Narrative, (Nashville, TN: The Aggiornamento Project, 2012).
Judged by the Law of Freedom: A History of the Faith-Works Controversy, and a Resolution in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006).
RECENT PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Irreducibility and the Personalistic Norm as a Departure from Thomism: A Critique
from the Thought of Karol Wojtyła / John Paul II,” Wojtyła Studies (Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2025: 80–117)
“The Church: Institution or Organism?” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture
(Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 2025: 131–145)
“Participation and Responsibility to the Truth in the Personalist Mariology of Karol
Wojtyła/Pope St. John Paul II,” The Saint Anselm Journal (Vol. 20., No. 2, Spring 2025: 19–32)
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Newman and Obedience in Light of Pastor Aeternus”, The St. John Henry Newman Association Conference, Newman the Priest, Christ the
King Retreat Center, Buffalo, MN (July 2025)
“Why God Really Became a Human Being According to Saint Anselm and the Fathers of Nicaea,” 2025 Saint Anselm Conference, Saint Anselm and the Teaching of Nicaea, Manchester, NH (April 2025)
“Participation and Responsibility to the Truth in the Personalist Mariology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope St. John Paul II,” 2024 Annual ACPA Meeting, Male and Female He Created Them, Loyola University, Chicago, IL (November 2024).
“The Church: Institution or Organism?” Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture 2024,
Renewing and Reimagining Institutions for the Common Good, Baylor University, Waco,
TX (October 2024).
“Toward a Renewal of Catholic Theological Methodology Under the Guidance of St. John
Henry Newman,” The St. John Henry Newman Association Conference, John Henry Newman,
Man of Letters: His Literary Power, University of Dallas, Irving, TX (July 2024).
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURES
“What Does the Virgin Mary Have To Do with the Atomic Bomb?” University of Dallas,
Irving, TX (November 2025)
“On the Suffering of the Virgin Mary,” University of Dallas, Irving, TX (April 2025)