Test Copy of Faculty Publications

Columnist for "Chapter House," an online feature of The Catholic Herald.

The American Myth of Religious Freedom. Dallas, TX: Spence, 1999.

“Bork, Robert. H. (1927-).” In American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson, 80. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006.

“Catholic Social Doctrine and Family Policy: Thinking Outside the Two-Chambered Box.” Church Life Journal, February 16, 2024.

"Centesimus Annus After 30 Years." Catholic Herald, May 4, 2021.

 

“Christ’s Counter-Kingdom: Why ‘Public Theology’ Is a Bad Idea.” Regeneration Quarterly (Winter 1995): 19–21.

 

Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2024.

 

“Civic Life Is Not Political Life.” Catholic World Report, September 28, 2020.

 

“Fact and Fiction: What Americans Really Think About Abortion.” Crisis Magazine 9, no. 5 (May 1991): 21–23.

“Gender-Specific Abortion.” The Human Life Review 15, no. 2 (1989): 36–41.

“‘Having’ and ‘Being’: John Paul II as Pastor.” In A New Worldly Order: John Paul II and Human Freedom, edited by George Weigel. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992.

“Is God Not Just? An Exegetical and Theological Study.” The Seminary Review 32, no. 4 (December 1986): 145–169.

 

“‘It Neither Picks My Pocket Nor Breaks My Leg’: Rationalist Faith, Private Conscience.” Communio: International Catholic Review 43, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 487-517.

"It Will Mean What the Words Say!" The University Bookman, May 17, 2020.

 

“Joe Biden is No Moderate.” First Things, September 16, 2020.

 

"Judging in Not Social Policy-Making." Catholic World Report, October 2, 2020.

 

“Kamala Harris’s Threat to Religious Believers.” First Things, September 7, 2020.

 

“Nearer My God, to Me.” The World & I 7, no. 9 (September 1992): 384–395.

"An Open Letter on Workplace COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates." Our Sunday Visitor, October 28, 2021.

“Our Kind of Ecumenism: Why Catholics Need to Be More Evangelical and Vice Versa.” Crisis Magazine 9, no. 9 (October 1991): 30–33.

“Religion as Moral Duty and Civic Right: Dignitatis Humanae on Religious Liberty.” In Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy, edited by Kenneth L. Grasso, Gerard V. Bradley, and Robert P. Hunt, 59–80. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.

“Say My Name: Self-Deception, Transparency, and Redemption in the Breaking Bad Universe.” Church Life Journal, July 5, 2023.

“Should Catholics Be Democrats, Republicans or Not Affiliated with a Party at All?” Our Sunday Visitor, November 13, 2020.

“Sign and Word: Martin Luther’s Theology of the Sacraments.” Restoration Quarterly 32, no. 3 (1990).

"Standing Firm and Holding Fast." Catholic Herald, August 26, 2021.

"Single-Issue Voting?" Catholic Herald, September 16, 2020.

“‘Tolerating’ Christianity Into Irrelevance: The Myth of Religious Freedom.” New Oxford Review 66 (April 1999).

"The Unparalleled Role of Family in Catholic Social Doctrine." Our Sunday Visitor, March 8, 2024.

“Virtue among the Ruins?” The Intercollegiate Review (Fall 1991): 33–37.

“Was Aquinas a Whig? St. Thomas on Regime.” Faith & Reason 20, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 249–263.

 

“We are all liberal Protestants.” National Catholic Register, September 11, 2024.

 

“What Christians Can Expect From Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” First Things, November 24, 2020.
 

“What to Expect From a Harris-Walz Presidency.” First Things, August 21, 2024.

 

“Why Marx Hated Christianity: A Reply to Leonardo Boff.” Crisis Magazine 7, no. 3 (March 1989): 32–38.

“Why Trust the Bible?” Homiletic & Pastoral Review 93, no. 1 (October 1992): 12–21.