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Unpublished & Forthcoming Writings
by Dr. Mark S. Latkovic

 
 
pdf download What's So Contra about Contraception? The HHS Mandate, Religious Liberty, & the Catholic Church: Some Observations on the Controversy by a Roman Catholic Moral Theologian
This talk was originally given at TRC [Totally Roman Catholic] on March 18, 2012 at St. Albert the Great parish (Dearborn Hts., Mich.).  This article is a slightly revised version of that talk dated March 30, 2012. Another version of it was posted in my "Notes" on my Facebook profile page.
 
pdf download Are You Out of Your Brain
March 7, 2012 version.
 
My article, "Just-War Theory, Catholic Morality, and the Response to International Terrorism," will be re-published in Common Good, Uncommon Questions: A Primer in Moral Theology, William C. Graham & Timothy Backous (eds.), Second Edition (Paulist Press), forthcoming.
 
pdf download What We Need Men to Become: Disciples of Jesus
This talk was given for the St. Therese of Lisieux Parish Men's Group, Shelby Township, MI (February 17, 2012). This is a slightly revised version dated February 22, 2012.
 
pdf download Response to Dr. Peter Williamson's "Teaching the Doctrine of the Spirit as the New Law While Explaining Galatians 5:13-23"
Paper given at Joint Faculty Orientation Session on Teaching Doctrine from Sacred Scripture (August 24, 2011 at Sacred Heart Major Seminary).
 
pdf download Review Essay: Benedict's Ashley, O.P.,'s The Way toward Wisdom
A version of this "Review Essay" will appear in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (Spring 2012) [April 15, 2012 version].
 
pdf download The Problem of Physician-Assisted Suicide:
From Dominion over Human Procreation to the "Right to Die." This essay was originally given as a talk for the Tuesday Men's Breakfast, Domino's Farm, Ann Arbor, MI (August 1998).
 
pdf download The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Change and/or Development in Moral Teaching, and Living Donor Organ Transplants
An earlier version of this essay appears on my Facebook blog, May 6, 2011. A revised version of this article appears in Ethics & Medics (July 2011): 3-4.
 
pdf download William E. May - Encyclopedia Entry
A version of this article will appear in "Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia," Vol. 3, edited by M. Coulter, S. Krason, R. Myers, and J. Varacalli (Scarecrow Press, 2012, forthcoming).
 
pdf download Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. - Encyclopedia Entry
A version of this article will appear in "Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia," Vol. 3, edited by M. Coulter, S. Krason, R. Myers, and J. Varacalli (Scarecrow Press, 2012, forthcoming).
 
January 4, 2012 version (An earlier version of this article was originally posted on my Facebook blog on November 22, 2010.)
 
November 14, 2010 version.  An earlier version of this article was posted on my Facebook blog on September 20, 2010.
 
A version of this article will appear in the forthcoming "Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: An Encyclopedia," Vol. 3, edited by M. Coulter, S. Krason, R. Myers, and J. Varacalli (Scarecrow Press, 2012, forthcoming).
  
June 11, 2010 [Original post] | September 12, 2010 [Revised post]
I thought of titling this blog entry the "Theology of the Body," then changed my mind. The fact that you're reading this right now probably shows the wisdom of this move. I'm not sure you'd have double-clicked to check it out if I hadn't changed the title!
 
This paper was originally given as a talk at the Archdiocese of Detroit's Saturday Evangelization Series, "Evangelizing Hot-Button Issues," October 17, 2009, at Sacred Heart Major Seminary (August 21, 2011 version).
 
A version of this talk was given at the Conference "Humanae Vitae Today: Co-Creating with God," at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, September, 20, 2008 (August 12, 2010 version).

pdf download Priests and Bioethics - Chapter II: Bioethics and Secular and Christian Views of Health, Human Life, and the Human Person, and Anthropological-Ethical Foundations
This essay is chapter 2 of my book project still in progress, Priests and Bioethics: A Handbook of Moral Principles and Pastoral Practice for the New Evangelization.  May 3, 2009 version.

pdf download A Comparison of the Views of Josef Fuchs, S.J. and Joseph Boyle, Jr. On the Notion of Basic/Fundamental Freedom and the Fundamental Option In Light of the Teaching of Pope John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor A Student's Guide to a Difficult Theological Subject
(April 15, 2009 version).

pdf download Christian Marriage: A Covenant of Lasting Love
This article will be published in a significantly revised booklet form in the "Catholic Faith Explorers" series of Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University in 2008-2009.

pdf download Catholic Men, the Spiritual Life, and Our Growth in Holiness-Perfection: Living Faith as Conversion, Knowledge, and Joy According to the Thought of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI

This paper was originally given as a retreat talk for the men of the Community of God's Mercy (Dearborn, MI) in Clarkston, MI on January 28, 2006.  It was revised slightly both in September 2006 (especially with the addition of a few footnotes), in October 2007, and in May 2010.

 

pdf download Natural Law 
A talk for the Ave Maria University Founders' Club, March, 2005

 

pdf download U2, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2004) Music Review,  December, 2004

 

pdf download Homosexuality: Causes and Cures, April 17, 2004

 

pdf download Ephesians 4-6, Humanae Vitae, and Men:  An Outline for a Talk, March 25, 2004

pdf download The Family: Sign of Communion in the New Evangelization
A Response to Carl A. Anderson

The Call to Holiness and Communion: Vatican II on the Church A Theological Symposium sponsored by Sacred Heart Major Seminary
November 12-15, 2003, Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, DC.

pdf download The Injustice of Proposal B
Co-authored with Professor Richard Myers (U. of D. Law School) and Tim Nelson, M.Div., M.D., op-ed on assisted-suicide submitted to The Detroit News, October, 1998


Colloquiums with Adam Cardinal Maida

pdf download The Eucharist: A Moral Perspective. A Response to Dr. Alain Sauret
Colloquium with Adam Cardinal Maida, March 28, 2000

pdf download The Implications of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
for Education in Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary: A Response to Dr. William Riordan" Colloquium with Cardinal Adam Maida, November 1995

pdf download Thinking About the Human Body-Person
A Response to Fr. Stephen Vileo's "The Embodied Soul"
Colloquium with Adam Cardinal Maida

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