Laura L. Garcia
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Philosophy
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02143
garciald@bc.edu
(617) 251-4483
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Philosophy, 1983, University of Notre Dame
M.A. Philosophy, 1979, University of Notre Dame
B.A. Philosophy, 1977, Westmont College, summa cum laude, honors in philosophy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Boston College
Boston College
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Georgetown University
The Catholic University of America
The University of Notre Dame
University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN)
Calvin College
St. Mary’s College (South Bend, IN)
Scholar in Residence
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Part-Time Lecturer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Visiting Lecturer
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Instructor
Instructor
Instructor
2011-Present
1999-2005
1993-1999
1988-1992
1986-1987
1984-1986
1982-1984
1979-1980
Spring 1979
COURSES TAUGHT
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Being and God
Religion and the Challenge of Science
Metaphysics of God
Does God Exist?
Faith and Reason
Religion and Morality
Miracles and Immortality
History of Metaphysics
Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy of the Person
Critical Thinking and Informal Logic
Symbolic Logic
Introduction to Ethical Theory
Analytic Philosophy
Contemporary Metaphysics
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Editor and Introduction, Truth, Life and Solidarity: The Impact of John Paul II on Philosophy (New York:
Crossroads, 2010).
Articles and Book Chapters
“An Inference Model of Basic God Beliefs,” under consideration at a reviewed journal.
“Equality and Freedom” in Erika Bachiochi, ed. Women, Sex and the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching
(Boston: Pauline Books, 2010).
"Does Maritain Solve the Problem of Evil?" in James Hanink, ed. Maritain Conference Papers (South Bend:
University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming).
“Moral Perfection” in Thomas Flint and Michael Rea, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Theology
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2009): 217-238.
“Ethics on One Wing” in Fulvio Di Blasi, Joshua Hochschild and Jeffrey Langan, eds. Ethics Without God?
The Divine in Contemporary Moral and Political Thought (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2008).
“Human Rights and Natural Kinds” in Joseph Koterski, SJ, ed. Life and Learning XVI: Proceedings of the
Sixteenth University Faculty for Life Conference (Washington: University Faculty for Life, 2008).
“Natural Kinds, Persons, and Abortion” in National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 8 (Summer 2008): 265-273.
“Ontological Arguments for God’s Existence” in Kelly Clark, ed. Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, 2nd
ed. (Buffalo: Broadview Press, 2008).
“Catholic Philosophical Theology” in Paul Copan and Chad Meister, eds., Routledge Companion to the
Philosophy of Religion (New York: Routledge, 2007).
“Design Arguments” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 2006).
“Toward a Personalist Feminism” in William Hund, CSC and Margaret Monahan Hogan, eds. Teaching, Faith
and Service: The Foundation of Freedom (Portland: University of Portland Press, 2005).
“Worth Dying For: Narnian Lessons on Heroism and Altruism” in Jerry Walls and Gregory Bassham, eds.
Philosophy and Narnia (Chicago: Open Court Books, 2005): 67-78.
“The Personalist Feminism of John Paul II,” published for student use by the University of St. Thomas
Bookstore, St. Paul, MN as part of a collection called John Paul II and the Vocation of the
Professional Woman, September 2005.
“A Personalist Understanding of Human Work,” Proceedings of the American Maritain Association, 2005.
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Role of Conscience in John Paul II’s Moral Philosophy” in Joseph Koterski,
SJ, ed., Life and Learning XIV: Proceedings of the Fourteenth University Faculty for Life Conference
(Washington, DC: University Faculty for Life, 2005): 171-181.
“Protecting Persons” in Christopher Tollefsen, ed. John Paul II’s Contribution to Catholic Bioethics
(Heidelberg: Springer (formerly Kluwer), 2004): 93-105.
"Ethics on One Wing" in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Newsletter 26 (Fall 2003): 13-23.
"Christians and the Joy of Sex" in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3 (Summer 2003): 257-264.
"Response to John Stuart Mill: The Importance of Parental Choice" in Logos 6 (2003): 172-174.
“The Role of the Family in Promoting a Culture of Life” in Luke Gormally, ed. Culture of Life, Culture of Death
(London: Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics, 2002): 180-192.
“St. John of the Cross and the Necessity of Divine Hiddenness” in Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul Moser,
eds., Divine Hiddenness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 83-97.
“Can the Marketplace Serve the Family?” in Lee Edwards, ed. The Global Economy: Changing Politics,
Society and Family (St. Paul: Professors World Peace Academy, 2001): 149-167.
“Globalization of Family Planning,” The World and I (December 2000): 259-277.
“Religious Values and Politics,” Religious Values at the Threshold of a New Millennium: Proceedings of the
Theology Institute (Villanova University) 31 (1999).
“Religious Pluralism and Natural Theology” in Thomas Hibbs and John O’Callaghan, eds., Recovering
Nature: Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph Mclnemy
(University of Notre Dame Press, 1999): 179-199.
“The Primacy of Persons: Edith Stein and John Paul II,” Logos 1 (1997): 90- 99.
“Teleological and Design Arguments” in Charles Taliaferro and Philip Quinn, eds. Encyclopedia of the
Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell, 1996): 338-344. (Revised and expanded for the 2nd ed., 2008.)
“Philosophy and Faith” in Thomas Morris, ed. God and the Philosophers (Oxford, 1994): 173-181.
“Timelessness, Omniscience and Tenses,” Journal of Philosophical Research 18 (1993): 65-82.
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“Natural Theology and the Reformed Objection” in Steven Evans and Merold Westphal, eds., Christian
Perspectives on Religious Knowledge (Eerdmans, 1993): 112-133.
“Divine Freedom and Creation,” Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992): 191-213.
“Can There Be a Self-Explanatory Being?” Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (1987): 479-88.
“The Essential Moral Perfection of God,” Religious Studies 23 (1986): 137-44.
“A Response to the Modal Problem of Evil,” Faith and Philosophy 1 (1984): 378-88.
Book Reviews
Nicholas Rescher, Issues in the Philosophy of Religion in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (December 11,
2007), accessible at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=11944.
Ralph Mclnerny, Characters in Search of Their Author in Faith and Philosophy 20 (2003): 247-249.
Richard Swinburne, Is There a God? in First Things, no. 81 (March 1998): 54-57.
Elizabeth Radcliffe and Carol White, eds., Faith in Theory and Practice in Faith and Philosophy 14 (1997):
113-116.
Paul Helm, Eternal God: A Study of God without Time in Review of Metaphysics 43 (1990): 634-36.
PRESENTATIONS
“Why We Need Natural Theology” presented to the American Maritain Association Meeting at the Central
Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Minneapolis, MN, March 2011.
“The New Feminism” presented to a panel on ProLife Feminism at The Yale Club, New York, NY, October
2010.
"Does Maritain Solve the Problem of Evil?" presented to American Maritain Association Conference at St.
Thomas University, Houston, TX, October 2009.
“Theology of the Body” presented to a conference on The Christian Worldview at Witherspoon Institute,
Princeton, NJ, November 2007.
“Human Rights and Natural Kinds” presented to a conference on Human Life: Its Beginning and End at the
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, October 2007.
“The Vicious and the Mean” presented to a workshop on the vices at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
IN, July 2007.
“Abortion and Natural Kinds” presented to University Faculty for Life Conference at Villanova University,
Philadelphia, PA, June 2007.
“Mary: Model for the Working Woman” presented to the Edith Stein Symposium at the University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, IN, February 2006.
“A Personalist Understanding of Work” presented to American Maritain Association at the Eastern Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in New York, NY, December 2005.
“Toward a Personalist Feminism” presented to a conference on Teaching, Faith, and Service: The Foundation
of Freedom at the University of Portland, Portland, OR, June 2005.
“Persons and Relations” presented to a conference on Sexuality, Integrity, and the University at Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, December 2005.
“Love’s Labor: The Poetry of John Paul II” presented to a conference on Epiphanies of Beauty at the
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, November 2004.
“Marcel’s Case for a Personalist Morality” presented to the Gabriel Marcel Society at the annual meeting of
the American Maritain Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2004.
“Women and Work: A Response to Prudence Allen” presented to a meeting of the Fellowship of Catholic
Scholars, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2004.
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Role of Conscience in John Paul II’s Moral Philosophy,” presented to the
University Faculty for Life Conference at University of St. Thomas Law School, Minneapolis, MN,
June 2004.
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“The Personalist Feminism of John Paul II” presented to a conference on John Paul II and the Vocation of the
Professional Woman at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, June 2004.
“Sex and Self-Giving” presented to a conference on Renewal and Formation at the University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, IN, October 2003.
"Reason and Respect for Persons" presented to a conference on Transformation and Renewal, University of
Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2003.
"Ethics on One Wing" presented to a conference on Ethics without God at University of Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, IN, July 2003.
Series of course lectures on "Analytic Philosophy" delivered and videotaped for the International Catholic
University's online graduate curriculum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, June 2003.
"Hope as a Theological Virtue" presented to students at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April
2003.
"The Heart of Faith" presented to undergraduate and graduate students at Elmbrook Residence, Cambridge,
MA, March 2003.
"The Heart of Faith" presented to faculty and students at St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH, January 2003.
"Thomas Aquinas and the Five Ways" presented to students at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, December
2002.
“St. Thomas and the Heart of Faith” presented as the Thomas Aquinas Lecture at St. Mary’s College, South
Bend, IN, October 2002.
"Christians and the Joys of Sex" presented to a conference on The Culture of Life: Agendas for Reform,
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 2002.
“Sex and Conversation” presented to a conference on The Culture of Life, University of Notre Dame,
December 2001.
Comment on Michael Winter’s “An Axiomatic Model of Aristotle’s Ethics” at the American Catholic
Philosophical Association meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, November 2001.
“Marriage and the Church” presented at a conference on Basics in Catholicism at the University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, IN, annually in May or June, 1994-2001.
“Becoming What We Are: Promoting Life in the Family” presented at a conference on The Great Jubilee and
the Culture of Life, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, July 2000.
Series of lectures on the thought of John Paul II presented to a faculty seminar at the University of St.
Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, June 2000.
“Can the Global Marketplace Serve the Family?” presented to a conference on The Globalization of the
Economy: The Effects on Politics, Society and Family in Seoul, Korea, February 2000.
“John Paul II as Philosopher and Teacher” presented to a general audience at University of St. Thomas, St.
Paul, Minnesota, November 1999.
“Why Does God Hide?” presented to a general audience at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts,
October 1999.
“Religious Values and Politics: A Conservative Perspective” presented to a conference on Religious Values at
the Threshold of a New Millennium, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1998.
“Cognitive Advantages of Faith” presented to the Society of Christian Philosophers at the American Catholic
Philosophical Association Meeting in Buffalo, New York, March 1997.
“Edith Stein on Women and Christian Philosophy” presented to the Catholic Studies Program at the University
of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, November 1996.
“The Truth About Choice” presented to the annual conference of University Faculty for Life at Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, June 1996.
“The Probability of Miracles” presented to the Pacific Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian
Philosophers, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, April 1996.
“Reformed and Catholic Responses to Natural Theology” presented at Princeton Theological Seminary,
Princeton, New Jersey, February 1995.
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“Divine Freedom and Creation” presented to the philosophy department at Calvin College, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, November 1994.
“Freedom: Human and Divine” presented to a philosophy of religion conference at Hendrix College, Little
Rock, Arkansas, January 1994.
Comment on Brian Leftow’s “Perfection and Timelessness” presented at the New Jersey Regional Philosophy
Association Conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 1993.
“Perfection and Possibility” presented at the New England Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian
Philosophers at Merrimack College in New Hampshire, April 1993.
“Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom” presented to the Philosophy Club at Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, Massachusetts, March 1993.
“Timelessness and Perfection” presented to the philosophy department at St. Louis University, St. Louis,
Missouri, January 1993.
“John Paul II on the Human Person” presented at a conference on the papal encyclical Centessimus Annus at
George Washington University, March 1992.
Comment on Alan Back’s “Aquinas and Morris on the Incarnation” presented at the American Philosophical
Association Pacific Division Meeting in Portland, Oregon, March 1992.
“Divine Freedom and Creation” presented at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting
in Chicago, Illinois, April 1991.
“Noetic Aspects of Faith” presented at the Washington Philosophical Society, March 1991.
“Functionalism and God” presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting in
Boston, Massachusetts, December 1990.
“Divine Freedom and Creation” presented at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 1990.
“Omniscience and the Ontology of Tense” presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific
Division Meeting in Oakland, California, March 1989.
“Timelessness, Omniscience and Tenses” accepted for presentation at the Society of Christian Philosophers
meeting at the World Congress of Philosophy in Brighton, England, August 1988.
Comment on Robert Adams’ “The Problem of Total Devotion” at a Research Conference in the Philosophy of
Religion in Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1984.
“The Essential Moral Perfection of God” presented to the Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian
Philosophers at University of Notre Dame, March 1984.
Comment on William Hasker’s “Concerning the Intelligibility of ‘God is Timeless” at the American
Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, April 1982.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of American Philosophical Association, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Society of
Christian Philosophers, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, University Faculty for Life.
Manuscript referee, Blackwell Publishers, Catholic University of America Press, The Thomist, Faith and
Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Christian Scholars Review, Theoretical Medicine
and Bioethics.
Advisory Board, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, 1999-present.
Co-Organizer, Conference on Truth, Life and Solidarity: Philosophical Implications of the Thought of John
Paul II at Boston College, February 2006.
Program Coordinator, Murray Hill Institute Session at the American Maritain Association Meeting, 2004.
Program Committee, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars for 2002 conference.
Panelist for reviewing grant applications for summer fellowships, National Endowment for the Humanities.
Executive Committee, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 1999-2002.
Executive Council, American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999- 2002.
Executive Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers, 1990-1993.
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Liaison Committee between the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian
Philosophers, 1997-2000.
Chair of Program Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers meeting at the American Catholic
Philosophical Association Convention, March 1989 and Eastern Division American Philosophical
Association Meeting, December 1991.
Member of the Program Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers meeting at the American Catholic
Philosophical Association Convention, March 1997.
Nominating committee, Society of Christian Philosophers, 1988; Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 1999.
Co-President, University Faculty for Life, 1990-91.
WORKSHOPS
Liberty Fund Colloquium on “The Modern State, Civil Society, and the Future of Freedom in the Thought of
Robert Nisbet” in Savannah, GA, April 2008.
Faculty workshop on “John Paul II and the Vocation of the Professional Woman” sponsored by the Siena
Symposium at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, June 2004.
Liberty Fund Colloquium on “Thomas More on Liberty” in Dallas, TX, February 2001.
Teaching Workshop sponsored by the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore, MD, March 1989.
Summer Institute in the Philosophy of Religion sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities at
Western Washington University, July-August 1986.
Midwest Faculty Forum on “Integrating Women into Scholarship” at University of Chicago, October 1983.
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
“Women’s Role in the New Millennium” in Family: A Revolution for the Third Millennium (Madrid: International
Federation for Family Development, 2001): 32-50.
“Marriage: The Crisis and the Cure,” Catholic Dossier, 1999.
Regular columnist for Catholic Dossier, 1996-97.
“Liberating Motherhood,” Crisis, January 1996.
“Edith Stein—Convert, Nun, Martyr,” Crisis, 15 (June 1997): 32-35.
“Can Marriage Be Saved?” Catholic Dossier, December 1995.
“Common Ground? No, Swamp Water,” a review of Kathy Rudy’s Beyond Pro-Life and Pro- Choice: Moral
Diversity in the Abortion Debate in New Oxford Review, September 1997.
“A ‘Prochoicer’s’ Explicit No to Life,” a review of Barbara Duden’s Disembodying Women: Perspectives on
Pregnancy and the Unborn in New Oxford Review, March 1995.
“Disparaging Christian Motherhood,” a review of Clarissa Atkinson’s The Oldest Vocation: Christian
Motherhood in the Middle Ages in New Oxford Review, June 1993.
“Femininity and the Life of Faith” in The Catholic Woman (lgnatius Press, 1991).
ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS
“What’s a Woman to Do?” presented to a workshop on Women: Trustees of Humanity at Arnold Hall
Conference Center, Pembroke, MA, October 2011.
“Receptivity to God and Others,” presented to the St. Thomas More Society at Boston College, Chestnut Hill,
MA, March 2008.
“Beauty in Motion,” presented to a workshop on Women: Trustees of Humanity at Arnold Hall Conference
Center, Pembroke, MA, December 2006.
“Living the Eucharist” presented to St. Theresa’s Parish in NH, February 2007.
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“Why Women?” presented at a workshop on Women: Trustees of Humanity at Arnold Hall Conference
Center, Pembroke, MA, December 2004.
“The Truth About Sex” presented for Theology on Tap, sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry Office of the
Boston Archdiocese, Cambridge, MA, February 2004.
"Called into Light," presented to a prayer vigil on New Year's Eve for the Archdiocese of Boston, Newton, MA,
December 31, 2003.
"The Church on Homosexuality and Marriage" presented to high school students at Montrose School, Natick,
MA, December 2003.
"What Sex Really Means" presented for Theology on Tap, sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry Office of
the Boston Archdiocese, Brighton, MA, September 2003.
"Teaching a Love-for-Life Ethic" presented to a prolife conference at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Parish,
Santa Clara, CA, January 2003.
"The Incarnational Vision of St. Josemaria," presented to a conference on Among Family and Friends: The
American Legacy of a New Saint, Josemaria Escriva at Bentley College, Waltham, MA, November
2002.
"Modeling Marriage," presented to a workshop at Arnold Hall Conference Center, Pembroke, MA, July 2002.
"The Role of Women in the New Millennium" presented to a Parents' Seminar Program at Montrose School,
Natick, MA, March 2002.
“A Cure for Cultural Blindness” presented to a general audience for the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA,
January 2001.
Series of talks on “Marriage and the Church” presented for several summers at a seminar on the Basics of
Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1995-2001 (approx).
“The Role of Women in Society” presented at the I5th Congress of the International Federation for Family
Development, Rome, Italy, October 2000.
“True Feminism is Pro-Life” presented to a conference at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, April 2000.
“Keeping Hope Alive: Prayer and Prolife Work” presented to a conference on The Feminine Genius and the
Culture of Life in Washington, DC, March 2000.
“The Role of the Family in Building a Culture of Life,” presented to a conference on the family at the Cathedral
of St. Paul, Worcester, MA, October 1999.
“The Role of the Laity in the Church” presented to a workshop for seminarians at Arnold Hall Conference
Center, Pembroke, MA, April 1998.
“Pope John Paul Il on Women” presented to a conference on the Papacy at the Cathedral of St. Paul,
Worcester, MA, April 1997.
“The Meaning of Grace” presented to a general audience at Arnold Hall Conference Center, Boston, MA, April
1997.
“Christian Marriage: Challenges for the New Millennium” presented to students at Princeton University, March
1997.
“Motherhood is Powerful” presented to a conference on the family at Rider University, January 1997.
“The Challenge of Christian Marriage” presented to the New Jersey chapter of Legatus in Union, NJ, January
1997.
“It Takes More Than Two: The Case Against Redefining Marriage” presented at St. Agnes Church, New York,
NY, November 1996.
“Christian Marriage and the Challenges of the 90’s” presented at a Family Life Series in Millington, NJ,
October 1996.
“Mission Possible” presented to the Second PanAmerican Conference on the Family in Toronto, Ontario,
May 1996.
“Women’s Contributions to the Culture of Life in Academia” presented to a conference on the papal encyclical
Evangelium Vitae in Washington, DC, May 1996.
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“Pro-Life Feminism” presented to the New Jersey Right to Life Convention in Somerville, New Jersey, April
1996.
“Women and Work” presented at St. Paul’s Parish, Princeton, NJ, March 1996.
“Christian Marriage” presented to High School Religious Education Students in Manhattan, NY, December
1995.
“Teaching a Love-for-Life Ethic” presented at a Catechetical Congress for the Diocese of Metuchen in
Sayreville, NJ, November 1995.
“Affirming Life: Meeting the Challenges of Today’s Culture” presented at the Rutgers Club, New Brunswick,
NJ, October 1995.
“Prolife Feminism: Yes or No?” presented to students at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, October 1995.
“Motherhood is Powerful: Cherishing Life in a Culture of Death” presented at the Republican Women’s Club,
New York, NY, May 1995.
“Feminism and the Prolife Ethic” presented at a conference at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, March
1995.
“Feminism and the Prolife Ethic: Has the Ideology of Radical Feminism Betrayed Women?” presented to
students at St. Johns University School of Law, Jamaica, NY, March 1995.
“On Becoming Catholic” presented to a ministers’ association at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton,
NJ, September 1994.
‘Women and Greatness” presented at a conference on The Catholic Woman in San Francisco and Santa
Clara, CA, May 1994.
‘Women and the Catholic Church,” presented to the Princeton University Maritain Club in Princeton, NJ, May
1994.
“Does Faith Corrupt Philosophy?” presented to the New York University Maritain Club in New York, NY, April
1994.
“Addition, Multiplication and Division: Marriage and Humanae Vitae” presented at a conference at Molloy
College, Rockville Centre, NY, September 1993.
“Weeping With Those Who Weep” presented at a meeting of Women Affirming Life, Boston, MA, May 1993.
“A Plea for Prolife Feminism” presented to a branch of the American Association of University Women in
Needham, MA, April 1993.
“Abortion and Women’s Rights” presented to the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, March 1993.
“Suffering and Happiness” presented to the UNIV club at Boston University, March 1993.
“Faith and Culture: The Impact of Culture and Religion on Family Values,” presented to an interreligious
women’s group at a Catholic parish in Washington, DC, December 1991.
“The Priesthood of Women,” presented at a conference on The Catholic Woman sponsored by the
Wethersfield Institute in Dallas and Houston, TX, May 1991.
“Can You Be Catholic and Be Pro-Choice?” A debate with Catholics for Free Choice at Georgetown
University, Washington, DC, April 1991.
“The Role of Women in the Church” presented to the Catholic Women’s Institute, George Washington
University, Washington, DC, February 1991.
“Femininity and the Life of Faith” presented to the annual Wethersfield Institute conference, New York City,
September 1990.
“Faith and Reason in Calvin and Aquinas” presented to St. Helena’s Parish, Minneapolis, MN, February 1982.
MEDIA APPEARANCES AND INTERVIEWS
EWTN interview with Colleen Caroll Campbell for the “Faith and Culture” series, June 18, 2011. Will air in late
2011 or early 2012.
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Panel discussion on ProLife Feminism taped for podcast of The Susan B. Anthony Foundation, October
2010.
National Catholic Register interview with Raymond de Souza, October 25-31, 1998.
EWTN Radio interview with Deal Hudson, editor of Crisis magazine, on the role of women in the writings of
Pope John Paul II, June 1996.
WAWZ Radio Program “Proclaim the Good News” with host Fr. Joseph Celano. On prolife feminism and
Feminists for Life, November 19, 1995; on prolife legislation, with Rita Martin, January 21, 1996; on
the Beijing conference on women and the Western agenda, with Mercedes Wilson, March 6, 1996;
Central New Jersey.
WAWZ aired “Affirming Life” from October 24, 1995 Breakfast for Life meeting at Rutgers University Club,
New Brunswick, NJ.
EWTN program on cultural responses to the visit of Pope John Paul II to the U.S., hosted by John Haas and
Msgr. Eugene Clark, with guests Deal Hudson and Mary Ellen Bork, October 6, 1995, New York and
Washington, DC.
CTN (Catholic Television Network) program on prolife issues, with guests Helen Alvare and Robert Destro,
Spring 1992, Washington, DC.
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
Co-founder and past executive officer, University Faculty for Life.
Advisory board, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
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