Publications
Law Review Articles
Additional Illumination: Catholic Social Teaching Looks at U.S. Family Law and Culture (forthcoming), J. of Law, Philosophy & Culture (Catholic University) (2008). Foreword: Symposium on Youth and the Law, 22 Notre Dame J. of L. Ethics & Pub. Pol’y 1 (2008)
Gonzales v. Carhart: Bringing Abortion Law Back into the Family Law Fold, 69 Montana L. Rev. 409 (2008).
The Moral Reasoning of Family Law: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage, 38 Loyola U. Chi. L. Rev 349 (2006).
An Anthropology for the Family Law of Indis/solubility, 4 Ave Maria L. Rev. 497 (2006).
The Consistent Ethic of Life: A Proposal for Improving its Legislative Grasp, 2 University of St. Thomas L. J. 326 (2005).
The Turn Toward the Self in Marriage: Same-Sex Marriage and its Predecessors in Family Law, 16 Stanford Law and Policy Review 101 (2005).
Saying “Yes” Before Saying “I Do,” Cohabitation and Premarital Sex as a Piece of the Divorce Puzzle, 18 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 7 (2004).
The Case for Regulating Collaborative Reproduction: A Children’s Rights Perspective, 40 Harvard J. on Legis. 1 (2003).
Catholic Teaching and the Law Concerning the New Reproductive Technologies, 30 Fordham Urban L. J. 107 (2002).
Legal Issues in a Post-Webster World, 34 Cath. Lawyer 115 (1991) (with Mark Chopko).
Book Chapters
Christian Feminism and Family Life: a new feminism fit for a new family? in Francis Eigo, ed., Themes in Feminist Theology for the New Millennium II: Proceedings of the Theology Institute of Villanova University (Villanova University Press, 2003)
Evangelium Vitae, Abortion: A Response to Leslie Griffin, in Kevin Wildes and Alan Mitchell, eds., Choosing Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae, 179 (Georgetown University Press, 1997).
John Paul II and the Gospel of Life, in Gregory Beabout, ed., A Celebration of the Thought of John Paul, 43 (St. Louis University Press, 1998).
Encyclopedia Entries
Abortion: Legal and Political Issues, New Catholic Encyclopedia (The Catholic University of America, 1996).
John Paul II and the Family, New Catholic Encyclopedia (The Catholic University of America, 2001).
Selected Additional Articles
Consumerism and the Objectification of Women in U.S. Family Law and Culture (a paper for the Pontifical Council for the Laity (Rome), to be published in the Council’s Proceedings, Spring 2008)
The Rape Crisis and the “Morning-After Pill”, Proceedings of the National Catholic Bioethics Center (Philadelphia, PA) (2007)
Bringing Assisted Reproductive Technologies into the Catholic Social Teaching Fold, Die Neue Ordnung (Germany) (2007).
Loneliness in the Context of Illness and Dying: A Catholic Perspective, The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, (Reprinted by Ignatius Press)
A New Feminism, The Holy Father’s Call to Christian Women, Liguorian, May 1997, pp. 4-11.
A New Feminism and the Family, Liguorian, August 1998, pp. 26-31.
About Last Night: A Reflection on Kristin Lavransdatter, Crisis, February 1999, pp. 30-31.
Catholic Identity in the Public Forum: A Reflection, in Faithful Past, Faith-filled Future, papers commissioned for the centennial of the National Catholic Educational Association (2003).