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Paul Lauritzen interviews Diana Fritz Cates

commonweal — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:10:19 +0000

Paul Lauritzen interviews Diana Fritz Cates on her new book ‘Aquinas on the Emotions: A Religious-Ethical Inquiry.’

Paul Lauritzen interviews Uwem Akpan

commonweal — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:08:47 +0000

A conversation with the Nigerian Jesuit Uwem Akpan, whose collection Say You’re One of Them recently won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region).

Paul Lauritzen interviews Sr. Helen Prejean

commonweal — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:59:05 +0000

The day after Barack Obama was elected president, Sr. Prejean discusses her “memo to the president on the death penalty.”

Paul Lauritzen interviews Brian Stiltner

commonweal — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:34:55 +0000

Brian Stiltner, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, BA, John Carroll University; MA, Ph.D., Yale University. Dr. Stiltner’s research interests focus on Catholic social ethics, the ethics of war and peace, and role of religion in democratic public life. His teaching responsibilities include bioethics, war and peace, historical and contemporary Christian ethics, and Catholic social thought. In 2007, Stiltner published Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War with David L. Clough (Georgetown University Press; more information at www.faithandforce.com). He previously directed the Hersher Institute for Applied Ethics (1998-2003) and the Center for Catholic Thought, Ethics, and Culture (2003-2006), which he helped establish. Dr. Stiltner has been a member of the Religious Studies Program at Sacred Heart University since 1998; he has served as chair of the department since 2006.

Paul Lauritzen interviews Dean Brackley, SJ

commonweal — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:31:03 +0000

Father Dean Brackley is a professor of theology at the Universidad Centroamericana (University of Central America—UCA) in El Salvador. In the 1970s and ’80s, Fr. Brackley worked in social ministry and popular education on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in the South Bronx. He taught briefly at Fordham University (1989-90) before joining the staff of the Universidad Centroamericana in 1990 when he succeeded one of the six Jesuits martyred in the UCA massacre the previous year. He has also administered the university’s School for Religious Education and collaborated in schools for pastoral formation sponsored by the UCA. He does pastoral work in an urban community.Fr. Brackley’s published works include The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times: New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius Loyola (Crossroad, 2004); and Divine Revolution: Salvation and Liberation in Catholic Thought (Orbis Books, 1996). Born in upstate New York in 1946, Fr. Brackley entered the Jesuit order in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1976. He received his doctorate in theological ethics at the University of Chicago in 1980.

Paul Lauritzen interviews William B. Hurlbut

commonweal — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:33:41 +0000

On the latest Commonweal podcast, Paul Lauritzen interviews William B. Hurlbut, physician and consulting professor at Stanford’s Neuroscience Institute. Hurlbut’s main area of interest involves the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies of the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. He has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics since 2002, and is the author of “Altered Nuclear Transfer,” a proposed technological solution to the moral controversy over embryonic stem-cell research.

Paul Lauritzen interviews Howard Gray, SJ

commonweal — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:31:06 +0000

On the latest Commonweal podcast, Paul Lauritzen interviews Howard Gray, SJ. Gray is one of the leading interpreters of Ignation spirituality. For the past decade, Gray has worked on mission and identity issues at Jesuit campuses across the country. He was the first director of the Center for Ignation Spiriuality at Boston College. And he currently serves as special assistant to the president of Georgetown University.

Paul Lauritzen interviews Sidney Callahan

commonweal — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:36:45 +0000

In his third Commonweal podcast, Paul Lauritzen talks to Sidney Callahan about her new book, Created for Joy.

Paul Lauritzen interviews Karen Long

commonweal — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:56:06 +0000

In the second Commonweal podcast, Commonweal contributor Paul Lauritzen interviews Karen Long, book review editor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, about the Commonweal summer reading list and other notable books, especially Be Near Me and The Gravedigger’s Daughter.

Paul Lauritzen Interviews Donald Cozzens

commonweal — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:39:19 +0000

Commonweal contributor and dotCommonweal blogger Paul Lauritzen interviews Donald Cozzens, author of Freeing Celibacy.