7:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
7:40 p.m. Keynote Address
George Weigel
“John Paul II: A Life for Life”
9:00-10:30 a.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: Literary and Symbolic Reflections on a Culture of Life
Jason Bell and Lenn E. Goodman
“Ritual and Respect for Life”
Brian Braman
“Look at Me: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and the Ethics of Recognition”
David Deavel and Catherine Jack
“Character, Choice, and Harry Potter”
Session 2: Social Justice
E. Jane Doering
“Simone Weil: Human Rights and Human Obligations”
Eugene McCarraher
“Mammon’s Deadly Grin: The New Gospel of Wealth and the Old Gospel of Life”
Daniel Philpott
“Beyond Politics As Usual: Is Reconciliation Compatible With Liberal Democracy?”
Session 3: The Nature of the Culture
Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb
“The Architecture of Life”
Hans Allhoff
“What is a Culture of Life”
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
“Christ, the Culture of Life: Towards a Theandric Culture”
Session 4: Medical Research and a Culture of Life
Patricia Powers
“The Human Genome Project and the Catholic Theological Tradition”
Clint Ashley
“Challenge and Response: A Christian Perspective on Genetics”
Session 5: Intentions, Ends, and Effects
Damian Fedoryka
“The Culture of Life and Foundations”
Robert Joseph Matava
“The Acceptability of Side Effects: Determining Proportionate Goods without Proportionalism”
Robert Miner
“Intention and the Debate over Stem Cell Research”
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: “Between the Beasts and God”
Gilbert Meilaender
Session 2: Christianity and Punishment
Stanley Hauerwas
“Punishing Christians”
Ralph McInerny
“The Devil’s Dignity: Concentrated Thoughts on Capital Punishment”
Session 3: Religious Orders: A Panel Discussion
Wilson Miscamble
Sister Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz
12 p.m. Lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: “A Culture of Life in a Post-Christian Age”
H. Tristram Engelhardt
Session 2: The Culture of Life After September 11: A Panel Discussion
Michael Baxter
Thomas Hibbs
John Haldane
Session 3: “Joy and the Culture of Life”
Sidney Callahan
3:15-4:45 p.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: Reviving Christian Concepts
J. Daryl Charles
“John Paul II and the Meaning of Suffering: Reflections on Salvifici Doloris”
Arthur Sutherland
“Responsibility and the Ethics of Hospitality”
Kalynne Hackney Pudner
“Fear and Loving in Ethics: Toward a Philosophical Conception of Self-Donative Human Flourishing”
Session 2: Ethical Theory and a Culture of Life
Edwin Bagley
“If Biodiversity is Good, Should We Affirm Ethicodiversity?”
Fulvio Di Blasi
“Why Practical Reason Needs the Virtues”
Eugene Halton
“When Philosophy Stopped Breathing: Beyond the Ghost in the Machine”
Session 3: Marriage, Intimacy and a Culture of Life
Pedro Pallares
“Philosophical Analysis of the Intimacy and its Rights”
Gregory Beabout
“The Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence and the Practice of Parenthood”
Session 4: Freedom, Dignity, and the Common Good
John F. Kavanaugh, S.J.
“The Dignity of Human Persons at the Margins of Biological Life”
Michael Sherwin, O.P.
“Freedom’s Dependence on Truth: John Paul and the Voices from Central Europe”
Arthur Madigan, S.J.
“The Common Good and the Culture of Life”
Session 5: Aquinas and Kant
Geoff Bowden
“Neo-Kantian Perfectionism?: Joseph Raz and the Liberation of Duty”
Patrick Paul Kain
“Finite Rational Beings and Dependent Rational Animals”
Steve Long
“Thomas’s Metaphysics of Morals: Providence, Freedom, and Natural Law”
Session 6: Hospitality and the Culture of Life Chair: Amy Oden
Aurelie Hagstrom
“Biblical Hospitality and the Spirituality of Conversation”
Richard Kyte
“Learning to be Hospitable”
Elizabeth Newman
“Hospitality and Christian Higher Education”
Scott Moore
“Hospitality: Redefining the City and the Soul”
7:30-9:00 p.m. Alasdair MacIntyre
“Pain, Grief and Other Signs of Life”
9:00-10:30 a.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: Relationships and Ethics in a Culture of Life
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
“Aquinas’s Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence: A new Measure of Moral Greatness”
John O’Callaghan
“Metaphysics and the Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence”
Moira Walsh
“Persuading Thrasymachus: Rationality and Relationality”
Session 2: Legal Issues
Michael Moreland
“American Federalism and the Culture of Life”
Sean Raftis, S.J.
“St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Right to Life”
Session 3: Contemporary Healthcare and a Culture of Life
Robert Barnet, MD, MA
“Contemporary Healthcare and the Gospel Message”
John Berkman
“Dying Well and the Culture of Life: The Promise of Palliative Care”
Ana Smith Iltis
“Institutional Integrity and the Culture of Life”
Session 4: Politics and a Culture of Life
John Pisciotta
“The Median Voter Principle and Advancing the Culture of Life”
David Thunder
“The Challenge of Moral Integration: Reconciling the Demands of Reasonableness’ and Religion in a Constitutional Democracy”
Session 5: The University and the Culture of Life
Juan Amezquita
“The University and Christian Humanism: The Basis of a Culture of Life”
Kevin McDonnell
“The Intellectual Life and the Lives of Intellectuals”
Christopher H. Toner
“The Life of Culture: Communion and the Connection of the Intellectual Virtues”
Session 6: Youth, Vocation and a Culture of Life
Mariangela Sullivan
“Teenagers and the Need for Transcendence”
Nathaniel L. Hannan
“The Vocation of a Christian”
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: Africa and the Culture of Life
Paul Kollman, C.S.C.
“Africa’s Missionary Past and the Culture of Life”
Paulinus Odozor, C.S.Sp.
“Preaching the Gospel of Life in a Milieu of Death”
Most Reverend John Onaiyekan
“The African Churches and the Culture of Life”
Session 2: Integrating Faith, Scholarship, and Teaching
Michael Beaty
Don Briel
Paul Griffiths
Session 3: Christianity and Marriage: A Panel Discussion
Helen Alvare
Laura Garcia
Margaret Monahan Hogan
1:30-2:45 p.m. Invited Papers
Session 1: Jorge Garcia
“Wojtyla Among the Moral Philosophers”
Session 2: Russell Hittinger
“Centesimus Annus Ten Years Later: John Paul II on the Munus Regale”
Session 3: MarriageBLegal and Moral Considerations
Gerard Bradley
“Contemporary Marriage and the Law”
Scott FitzGibbon
“Marriage as Domestic Friendship”
3:15-4:45 p.m. Colloquium Sessions
Session 1: Issues in Contemporary Bioethics
Catherine Myser and Douglas Taylor
“Community Based Participatory Research as an Instrument of Public Education/Engagement and Social/Racial Justice in Bioethics”
John Young, CSC, MD
“Using Experience with the Violently Mentally Ill to Ethically Integrate Molecular Medical Advances”
Session 2: Law and a Culture of Life
Richard Stith
“Respect for Life: The Foundation of Law”
Karen Stohr
“Responsibility and Punishment through the Lens of Virtue Ethics”
Christopher Kaczor
“Why the Death Penalty? Capital Punishment and the Catholic Tradition”
Session 3: Reproduction and the Body
Mercedes Arzu Wilson
“Divorce Rate Comparison Between Couples Using Natural Family Planning and Artificial Birth Control”
Heidi Giebel
“Having Babies in a Culture of Life: What Anscombe's Ethics Omits”
T. Scott Daniels
“Sacramental Sexuality: Why Valuing Life Takes Grammar of Faith”
Session 4: Dignity and a Culture of Life
Lisa Bellantoni
“Our Soul Saving Grace? The Practice of Human Dignity”
Carol Quinn
“On Finding an Adequate Conception of Dignity”
Session 5: Personhood and a Culture of Life
Kevin Corcoran
“Material Persons, Immaterial Souls and an Ethic of Life”
Perry T. Hamalis
“Sophrony Sakhrov on the Resurrection of the Human Person through the Remembrance of Death: A Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Proposal”
Thomas Kelly
“A Better Vision: Evangelium Vitae and Contemporary Applied Ethics”
Session 6: Education and a Culture of Life
Terrence Crowe
“Back to the Basics: Probation in Education”
Raquel Frisardi
“The Gifts of the Spirit: An Apologia for Metaphysics in High Schools”
Msgr. Richard Liddy
“The Promise of Catholic Studies”
5:00 p.m. Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
7:00 p.m. Banquet
Speaker: Francis Cardinal George
