Fr. Romanus Cessario, S.T.D.

The Mission of Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas understood his mission as the salvation of souls because he was a Dominican and that's exactly what saint Dominic said to the first Dominicans.

The Vocation To Study

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Education

B.A., Philosophy, St. Stephen’s College
M.A., Philosophy, St. Stephen’s College
S.T.L., Sacred Theology, Dominican House of Studies
S.T.B., Sacred Theology, Dominican House of Studies
S.T.D., Sacred Theology, University de Fribourg
S.T.M., The Order of Preachers, Santa Sabina, Rome

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The Vocation To Study

Today we're more lucky than perhaps people of earlier generations because our media has made it very easy to lay hold of instruction.

The Mission of Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas understood his mission as the salvation of souls because he was a Dominican and that's exactly what saint Dominic said to the first Dominicans.

Books

Cessario, Romanus. Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982.
Cessario, Romanus. The Godly Image: Christ and Salvation in Catholic Thought from Anselm to Aquinas. Studies in Historical Theology VI. Petersham, MA: St. Bede's Publications, 1990.
O’Neill, Colman E., O.P. Meeting Christ in the Sacraments. Revised by Romanus Cessario, O.P. New York: Alba House, 1991.
Cessario, Romanus. The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. Notre Dame/London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
Cessario, Romanus. Le Virtù. Volume 19 of Manuali di Teologia Cattolica (AMATECA), Sezione sesta: La persona umana. Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book, 1994. Spanish edition: Las virtudes. Valencia: Edicep, 1998. English edition: Virtues, or the Examined Life. New York: Continuum, 2002. Croatian edition: Kreposti. Zagreb: Kršćanska sadašnjost, 2007.
Cessario, Romanus. Perpetual Angelus. As the Saints Pray the Rosary. New York: Alba House, 1995.
Cessario, Romanus. Christian Faith and the Theological Life. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996.
Cessario, Romanus, J. A. DiNoia, B. G. O’Donnell, and P. J. Cameron. A Love That Never Ends. A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1996.
Bedouelle, Guy, and Kevin White, eds. Jean Capreolus en son temps (1380-1444). (Mémoire Dominicaine, numéro spécial, 1). Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1997.
Cessario, Romanus, and J. A. DiNoia, O.P., eds. Veritatis Splendor and the Renewal of Moral Theology. Studies by Ten Outstanding Scholars. Chicago: Midwest Theological Forum, 1999.
Cessario, Romanus. Le thomisme et les thomistes. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1999. English edition: Cessario, Romanus. A Short History of Thomism. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Cessario, Romanus, and Kevin White, eds. John Capreolus (1380–1444): Treatise on the Virtues. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001.
Cessario, Romanus. Introduction to Moral Theology. Revised Edition. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
Cessario, Romanus, ed. Boston’s Cardinal. Bernard Law, the Man and His Witness. Biographical Essay by Mary Ann Glendon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.
Cessario, Romanus. The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. Second Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Last Words of Jesus. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2009. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taiwan: Catholic Window Press, 2010.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Joys of Mary. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2011. French edition, trans. Guy Bedouelle, O.P., 2013. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuangchi Cultural Group, 2015.
Cessario, Romanus, Craig Steven Titus, and Paul C. Vitz, eds. Philosophical Virtues and Psychological Strengths. Introduction by Romanus Cessario. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2013.
Cessario, Romanus. Introduction to Moral Theology. Revised Edition. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Sorrows of Mary. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2014. French edition, trans. Catherine Mas–Mézéran, 2017. Spanish edition, trans. Pablo Cervera Barranco, 2017. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuangchi Cultural Group, 2019.
Cessario, Romanus. Theology and Sanctity. Edited by Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. ɫ��ӰƬ, FL: Sapientia Press, 2014.
Cessario, Romanus. Compassionate Blood: Catherine of Siena on the Passion. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2016.
Cessario, Romanus, and Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017. Spanish edition: Cessario, Romanus, and Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. Tomás Y Los Tomistas: El Logro de Tomás De Aquino y sus intérpretes. Toledo: Ediciones Cor Iesu, 2021.
Cessario, Romanus. The Grace to Be a Priest: Cluny Media, 2017.
Cessario, Romanus. The Godly Image. Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 2020.
Cessario, Romanus. Sanctifying Truth: Thomas Aquinas on Christian Holiness. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2021.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023.

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Articles

“Theology at Fribourg,” The Thomist 51 (1987): 325–366.
“The Meaning of Virtue in Catholic Moral Life: Its Significance for Human Life Issues,” The Thomist 53 (1989): 173–96.
“Casuistry and Revisionism: Structural Similarities in Method and Content,” in “Humanae Vitae”: 20 Anni Dopo. Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Theologia Morale, vol. III (Milano: Edizioni Ares, 1990): 385–409.
“Christian Satisfaction and Sacramental Reconciliation,” Communio 16 (1989): 186–196.�� Reprinted in Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments: Studies in Sacramental Theology, ed. M. Levering and M. Dauphinais (Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2009), pp. 65–75.
“Aquinas on Nature and Grace” in Catholicism and Secularization in America, ed. David L. Schindler (Notre Dame, IN: Communio Books, 1990): 207–10.
“La tradition thomiste et l’oeuvre de l’Esprit: les dons d’intelligence et de science,” Nova et Vetera 65 (1990): 259–267.
“Christ and Reconciliation,” Faith & Reason 17 (1991): 15-50.
“Lacordaire et les États-Unis,” in Lacordaire, son pays, ses amis et la liberté des ordres religieux en France, ed. Guy Bedouelle (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1991): 333–347.
“A Thomist Interpretation of Faith: The Gifts of Understanding and Knowledge,” in Novitas et Veritas Vitae. Aux Sources du Renouveau de la Morale Chrétienne. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Servais Pinckaers à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, ed. Carlos–Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1991): 67–102.
“Incarnate Wisdom and the Immediacy of Christ’s Salvific Knowledge,” in Problemi teologici alla luce dell'Aquinate (Atti del IX Congresso Tomistico Internazionale). Studi Tomistici 44 (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1991): 334–340.
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Satisfaction, Indulgences, and Crusades,” Medieval Philosophy & Theology 2 (1992): 74–96.
“Virtue Theory and the Present Evolution of �ճ�ǳ��,” in The Future of Thomism, ed. Deal W. Hudson and Dennis Wm. Moran (Notre Dame, IN: American Maritain Association, 1992): 291–299.
“An Observation on Robert Lauder’s Review of G.A. McCool, S.J.,” The Thomist 56 (1992): 701–710.
“Lacordaire and the United States,” The Catholic Historical Review 78 (1992): 197–206.
“Boethius, Christ, and the New Order,” Carmina Philosophiae 1 (1992): 53-64.�� Reprinted in New Directions in Boethian Studies, ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Philips, Studies in Medieval Culture XLV (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), 157–168.
“Is Aquinas’s Summa Only About Grace,” in Ordo Sapientiae et Amoris.�� Hommage au Professeur Jean-Pierre Torrell OP à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, ed. Carlos–Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1993): 197–209. Reprinted in Reason and the Rule of Faith, ed. Christopher J. Thompson and Steven A. Long (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011), 43–53.
“Moral sexual christiana dentro de una estructura más amplia,” ��á�ѲԱ�� 3 (1993): 5–25.
“Le Père Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964),” Sources 20 (1994): 206–208.
“Early Dominican Confessional Practice,” New Blackfriars 75 (1994): 425–428. [French translation: “Les Premiers Dominicains et la confession,” Mémoire Dominicaine 5 (1994): 283–286.]
“The Church, Higher Education, and Global Concerns,” Josephinum Journal of Theology 2 (1995): 25–33.
“Moral Absolutes in the Civilization of Love” in The Splendor of Truth and Health Care, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Russell E. Smith, (Braintree, MA: The Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, 1995): 43–57. Reprinted in Crisis 13 (May, 1995): 18–23.
“Boèce, le Christ et la civilisation européenne,” Pierre d’angle 1 (1995): 51–60.
“Toward Understanding Aquinas’ Theological Method: The Early Twelfth–Century Experience” in Studies in Thomistic Theology, ed. Paul Lockey (Notre Dame, IN: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1995): 17–89.
“Epieikeia and the Accomplishment of the Just” in Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives, ed. G. Simon Harak (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996): 170–205.
“The Spirituality of St. Thomas Aquinas,” Crisis 14 (July/August 1996): 14–16.
“Evangelization and Our Present Circumstances: In Praise of Virtue” in The Church’s Mission of Evangelization, ed. William E. May, (Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 1996): 129–152.
“Éloge des vertus chrétiennes pour un temps de crise,” Pierre d’angle 2 (1996): 53–71.
“Saint Thomas, Durand de Saint-Pourçain et Capreolus: Le Débat sur la foi” in Jean Capreolus en son temps (1380-1444), ed. Guy Bedouelle, Romanus Cessario, and Kevin White ( Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1997): 159–164.��
“Christian Virtue and Public Morality,” Rivista Teologica di Lugano 2 (1997): 27–42.
“À nos lecteurs: sur le paradoxe de l’existence chrétienne entre foi et modernité. La foi comme Dieu l'a révélée,” Pierre d’angle 3 (1997): 18–26.
“On Bad Actions, Good Intentions, and Loving God: Three Much-Misunderstood Issues about the Happy Life that St. Thomas Clarifies for Us,” Logos 1.2 (1997): 100–124.
Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine, ed. Russell Shaw (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1997), s. vv. “Assent and Dissent,” “Atheism,” “Bishop,” “Celibacy, Priestly,” “Deacon,” “Holy Orders,” “Ministry,” “Modernism,” “Priest,” and “Priesthood of Christ.”
“Theological Literacy and Theological Science” in Boston Theological Institute Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 24 (18 Mar 1998): 1–2.
“More Good News,” Catholic Dossier 4.2 (March-April 1998): 54–55.
“The Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, Person of Love,” Catholic International 9 (May 1998): 220–224.
Dizionario di Mistica, ed. L. Borriello, et al. (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1998), s. vv. “Tommaso D’Aquino (santo)” and “Garrigou-Lagrange, Reginald.”
“The D.E.S. Motto and the Benedictine Tradition: A Thomistic Connection,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal 43 (1998): 88–90.
“St. Therese, Seminarians, and the Future,” Catholic Dossier 4.6 (November-December 1998): 14–16.
“John Poinsot: On The Gift of Counsel” in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education, ed. Daniel McInerny (Mishawaka: American Maritain Association, 1999): 163–178.
“The Reason for Reason: Fides et Ratio,” Crisis 17 (January 1999): 16–19.
“Thomas Aquinas: A Doctor for the Ages,” First Things (March 1999): 27–32.�� Reprinted in The Second One Thousand Years. Ten People Who Defined the Millennium, ed. Richard John Neuhaus (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001): 28–39.
“Reply to Professor Gilbert Morris,” First Things (June/July 1999): 7.
“Fides et Ratio. Un appel à la vérité et à la réconciliation,” Pierre d’angle 5 (1999): 32–38.
“What the Angels See at Twilight,” Communio 26 (Fall 1999): 583–594. [French translation: “Ce que les anges voient au crépuscule,” Communio 25 (nov.–déc. 2000): 41–51.]
“Custodia Condicional de la Vida Humana. Un principio moral de Juan Pablo II” in El Dios y Padre de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, ed. José Luis Illanes et al., (Pamplona: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2000): 427–432.
“Infallible Teaching and the Gift of Divine Truth,” Catholic Dossier 6.3 (May- June 2000): 5–8.
“Un “salut civil”? Vie et famille dans la doctrine catholique,” Pierre d’angle 6 (2000): 185–97.
“Sacramental Confession and Addictions” in Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Edward J. Furton (Boston, MA: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2000): 125–139.
New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jubilee Volume: The Wojtya Years, s.v. “Schönborn, Christoph.”
“Towards an Adequate Method for Catholic Bioethics,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (2001): 51–62.
The Dictionary of Historical Theology, ed. Trevor A. Hart (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001), s.v. “Gilson, Étienne (1884–1978).”
“En partant d’une chanson de Gershwin...,” Pierre d’angle 7 (2001): 41–47.
“Duplex ordo cognitionis,” Doctor Communis II, n.s., Atti della II Sessione Plenaria, 22-24 Giugno 2001 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2002): 102–109; 141–142.
“The Theological Virtue of Hope (IIa IIae qq. 17-22)” in The Ethics of Aquinas, ed. Stephen J. Pope (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002), pp. 232–243.
“The Sacramental Mediation of Divine Friendship and Communion,” Faith & Reason 27 (2002): 7-41.
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2^nd ed., vol. 4, s.v. “Consequentialism.”
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2^nd ed., vol. 3, s.v. “Casuistry,” with E. Hamel.
“Mary in the Dominican Tradition,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 1 (2003): 27–42.
“Entendre les Mystères. Musique liturgique et foi théologale,” with Jonathan Gaspar, Pierre d’angle 9 (2003): 135–50.
“C�ǴǱ��پ��ǲ�, Veritatis splendor, and the Luminous Mysteries” in Walk as Children of Light: The Challenge of Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Edward J. Furton (Boston, MA: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2003): 47–67.
“Life and Family as Themes in Catholic Social Thought” in Indubitanter ad Veritatem.�� Studies Offered to Leo J. Elders, S.V.D. in Honor of the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood, ed. Jörgen Vijgen (Budel: Damon, 2003), pp. 69–79.
“Aquinas on Christian Salvation” in Aquinas on Doctrine. A Critical Introduction, ed. Thomas Weinandy, Daniel Keating, John Yocum (London: T&T Clark International, 2004), pp. 117–37.
“Response” in Book Symposium, Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 2 (2004): 208–10.
“Mel Gibson and Thomas Aquinas: How the Passion Works,” ZENIT, 9 April 2004.�� Available from englishzenit@zenit.org, INTERNET. [German translation: “Wie die Passion Christi die Erlösung bewirkt–Mel Gibson und Thomas von Aquin,” Una Voce–Korrespondenz 34 (2004): 131–38.]
“Conditional Stewardship of Life: A Moral Principle of John Paul II” in Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care, ed. Kevin T. McMahon (Overbook, PA: Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004), pp. 120–38.
“Sex, Lies, and Freud,” Logos 7.3 (2004): 47–59.
“Mel Gibson et saint Thomas d’Aquin: Un regard théologique sur La Passion du Christ,” Pierre d’angle 10 (2004): 185–94.
“Why Aquinas Locates Natural Law within the Sacra Doctrina,” in St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition. Contemporary Perspectives, ed. John Goyette, Mark S. Latkovic, and Richard S. Myers (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. 79–93.
“The Light of Tabor: Christian Personalism and Adoptive Friendship,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 2 (2004): 237–47. Reprinted in L’Antropologia della Teologia Morale Secondo L’Enciclica “Veritatis Splendor.” Atti del Simposio promosso dalla Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, Roma, settembre 2003 (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2006), pp. 92–101.
“Mel Gibson’s Movie & Thomas Aquinas’s Modes: How the Passion of the Christ Works,” Saint Austin Review 4 (2004): 27–32.�� [Dutch translation: “Mel Gibson en Thomas van Aquino over de Passie van Christus” in Doctor Humanitatis, vol. 1, De actualiteit van Sint-Thomas van Aquino, ed. Jörgen Vijgen (Hoofddorp: Uitgeverij Boekenplan, 2005).] “Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion’ & Aquinas’s Five Modes: How the Passion of Christ Works,” The Premier International Fan Website, Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” Available , INTERNET.]
“Walk According to the Light. An Illustration from North America” in Camminare nella Luce. Prospettive della teologia morale a partire da ‘Veritatis splendor,’” ed. Livio Melina and José Noriega (Rome: Lateran University Press, 2004), pp. 401–07.
“Capreolus on Faith and the ‘Theologal’ Life” in: Essays in Medieval Philosophy and Theology in Memory of Walter H. Principe, CSB: Fortresses and Launching Pads, ed. James R. Ginther and Carl N. Still (Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005), pp. 135–141.
“Duplex Ordo Cognitionis” in Reason and the Reasons of Faith, ed. Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), pp. 327–338.
“‘Worthy of the Temple’: Liturgical Music and Theologal Faith,” with Jonathan Gaspar, Nova et Vetera, English Edition 3 (2005): 673–688.
“Catholic Hospitals in the New Evangelization,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 675–686.
“Person & Being: Theological and Psychological Considerations,” Doctor Communis, Atti della IV Sessione Plenaria, 25–27 Giugno 2004 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2006): 75–84.
“‘Circa res ...aliquid fit’ (Summa theologiae II-II, q. 85, a. 3, ad 3): Aquinas on New Law Sacrifice,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition 4 (2006): 295–312.
“The Sacred, Religion, and Morality,” Doctor Communis VII, n.s., Atti della V Sessione Plenaria, 24-26 Giugno 2005 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2006): 173–186.
“Johannes Capreolus” in Thomistenlexikon, ed. David Berger & Jörgen Vijgen (Bonn: Nova & Vetera Verlag, 2006), pp. 302–311.
“The Sacred, Religion, and Morality,” Logos 9.4 (2006): 16–32.
“Catholic Considerations on Palliative Care,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 6 (2006): 639–650.
“Moral Theology on Earth: Learning from Two Thomases,” Studies in Christian Ethics 19 (2006): 305–322.
“Hommage au Père Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, OP. The Significance of His Work,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5 (2007): 1–16.
“The Theological Heritage of Pope Benedict XVI,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5 (2007): 267–270.
“Moral Realism and Christian Values” in The Person and the Polis. Faith and Values within the Secular State, ed. Craig Steven Titus (Arlington, VA: The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 2007), pp. 153–73.
“Tanquam spiritualis pulchritudinis amatores. The Consecrated Vocation of Matthew Lamb” in Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship.�� Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb, ed. Michael Dauphinais & Matthew Levering (Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007), pp. 17–45.
“Saint Thomas and the Enculturation of the Natural Law: Doing Moral Theology on Earth,” Doctor Communis, Atti della VI Sessione Plenaria, 23–25 Giugno 2006 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2007): 41–53.
“Reply to Edward T. Oakes, S.J.,” First Things (October 2007): 8–9.
“Thomas d’Aquin, apôtre du sens commun,” Pierre d’angle 13 (2007): 49–56.
“Sonship, Sacrifice, and Satisfaction: The Divine Friendship in Aquinas and the Renewal of Christian Anthropology,” Letter & Spirit 3 (2007): 71–93.
“In Honor of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.: Priest, Scholar, and Living Memory,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 245–246.
“The Sacraments of the Church” in Vatican II. Renewal Within Tradition, ed. Matthew L. Lamb & Matthew Levering (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 129–146.
“On Moral Theology” in Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition, ed. David L. Schindler, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), pp. 297–302.
“Scholarship and Sanctity,” Second Spring 10 (2008): 13–20.
“Love, Friendship, and Beauty: On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of a Magisterial Document about Religious Life and the Apostolate, Logos 11.4 (2008): 147–163.
“The Quarry Workers,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 669–674.
“Humanae Vitae, the Maritains, and Maurice Sachs,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 711–730.
“Freedom and Satisfaction” in The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom, ed. Peter A. Pagan & Terese Auer, O.P., (Washington, DC: American Maritain Association, 2009), pp. 207–225.
“O que os anjos vêem: natureza e graça,” Lumen Veritatis 2, N○ 5 (2008): 121–25.
“On the Place of Servais Pinckaers († 7 April 2008) in the Renewal of Catholic Theology,” The Thomist 73 (2009): 1–27.
New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009. 2 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2009), 1: 191–193, s. v. “Consequentialism.”
“Hommage au Père Servais Pinckaers, O.P.: L’importance de son oeuvre” in Renouveler toutes choses en Christ. Vers un renouveau thomiste de la théologie morale, ed. Michael S. Sherwin, O.P., and Craig Steven Titus, Etudes d’éthique chrétienne, NS 5 (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2009), pp. 6–19.
“Saint Thomas Aquinas: ‘The Apostle of Common Sense,’” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 7 (2009): 563–68.
“Realismo Morale E Legge Naturale,” in Come insegnare Teologia Morale? Prospettive di rinnovamento nelle recenti proposte di esposizione sistematica, ed. Livio Melina & Stephan Kampowski, Studie sulla persona e la famiglia, Atti 3 (Siena: Edizioni Cantagalli, 2009), pp. 91–105.
“Maurice Sachs et les Maritain,” Pierre d’angle 15 (2009): 127–144.
“Aquinas on the Priest: Sacramental Realism and the Indispensable and Irreplaceable Vocation of the Priest,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 8 (2010): 1–15.
“Scholarship and Sanctity: A Lesson Aquinas Teaches the Priest and Seminarian,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 8 (2010): 233–49.
New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2010. 2 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2010), 1: 205–208, s. v. “Cardinal Virtues.”
“Remarks on Sin and Indulgence,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 9 (2011): 99–108.
“Blessed John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Sermon Preached at the Toronto Oratory, October 3, 2010,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 9 (2011): 261–66.
“Seek Out the Harmonies between Faith and Reason,” The Catholic Social Science Review 16 (2011): 331–37.
“Organ Donation and the Beatific Vision: Thomist Moral Theology Confronts the Tide of Relativism” in The Ethics of Organ Transplantation, ed. Steven J. Jensen (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011), pp. 195–216.
“The Trinitarian Imprint on the Moral Life” in The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity, ed. Gilles Emery, O. P., and Matthew Levering (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 487–92.
“Witness to Faith: George Weigel, Blessed John Paul II, and the Theological Life,” with Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 10 (2012): 1–13.
“The Grace St. Dominic Brings to the World: A Fresh Look at Dominican Spirituality,” Logos 15.2 (2012): 84–100.
“Mary in the Thomist Commentatorial Tradition” in Sapienza e libertá. Studi in Onore del Prof. Lluís Clavell, ed. Miguel Pérez de Laborda (Rome: Edusc Srl, 2012), pp. 81–88.
“Scripture as the Soul of Moral Theology: Reflections on Vatican II and Ressourcement �ճ�ǳ��,” The Thomist 76 (2012): 165–88.
After Virtue, Thirty Years After: Laudatio for Alasdair MacIntyre,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 10 (2012): 895–900.
“Sacramental Causality: Da capo!,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 11 (2013): 307–316.
New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012–13: Ethics and Philosophy. Ed. Robert L. Fastiggi. 4 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2013), 3: 1276–77, s. v. “Prudence [Addendum].”
New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012–13: Ethics and Philosophy. Ed. Robert L. Fastiggi. 4 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2013), 3: 1025–26, s. v. “Moral Skepticism.”
“Morals and Sacraments: Themes in the Catechism that Aquinas Helps Clarify,” Doctor Communis, The Proceedings of the XII Plenary Session, 29 June–1 July 2012 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2013), pp. 143–49.
“Miscere colloquia: On the Authentic Renewal of Catholic Spirituality,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 11 (2013): 627–47.
“Molina and Aquinas” in A Companion to Luis de Molina, ed. A. Aichele & M. Kaufmann (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 291–323.
“Premotion, Holiness, and Pope Benedict XIII (1724-30): Some Historical Retrospects on Veritatis Splendor,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 11 (2013): 1115–35.
“Culture and Contemplation: Catholicism in the Twenty-First Century,” The Thomist 77 (2013): 453–71.
“The Importance of Steven A. Long’s Analogia Entis within Contemporary Catholic Thought,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 12 (2014): 971–974.
“God the Son: Trinitarian Christology. Markers in the Thomist Tradition,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 12 (2014): 1233–1255.
“Thomas Aquinas and Vocational Discernment,” Religious Life Review 54 (2015): 69–86.
“Le goût du monde,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 14 (2016): 1–13.
“Sacrifice, Social and Sacramental: The Witness of Louis Billot, S.J.,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 14 (2016): 127–149.
“Ego Sapientia. The Mariology of Laval Thomism” in Theology Needs Philosophy, ed. Matthew L. Lamb (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2016), 227–239.
“Ricezione e Prospettive negli Stati Uniti e in Australia” in Deus Caritas Est. Porta di Misericordia. Atti del Simposio internazionale nel decimo anniversario dell’Enciclica, ed. M. Graulich & R. Weimann (Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2016): 235–249.
“Religion and Christian Life: Religion and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit,” Doctor Communis, The Proceedings of the XV Plenary Session, 19–21 June 2015 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2016), pp. 119–32.
“Charity, Mortal Sin, and Parish Life,” Logos 19.4 (2016): 86–100.
“ɫ��ӰƬ! The Grace of Predestination” in Thomism & Predestination. Principles and Disputations, ed. S. Long et al. (ɫ��ӰƬ, FL: Sapientia Press, 2016): 226–238.
“Mercy in Aquinas: Help from the Commentatorial Tradition,” with Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., The Thomist 80 (2016): 329–339.
Nuovo Dizionario di Mistica, ed. L. Borriello, et al. (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2016), s.vv. “Tommaso D’Aquino (santo)” and “Garrigou-Lagrange, Reginald.”
“Holy Teaching, Holy Preaching: Thomas, Thomists, and the Province of Saint Joseph,” The Thomist 80 (2016): 601–622).
“Le goût du monde” in Colloque Guy Bedouelle. Une libre intelligence chrétienne, ed. Michel Jacquet (Angers: Frémur editions, 2017): 189–220.
“Religion and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 15 (2017): 983–998.
“In memoriam. Pierre d’Angle ou les racines du présent. Hommage au frére Guy Bedouelle,” with Daniel Bourgeois, Pierre d’angle 18 (2017): 5–20.
“Creation as a Norm for Moral Action,” Logos 21.2 (2018): 109–122. Also in Dio creatore e la creazione come casa commune, ed. S.–T. Bonino & G. Mazzotta (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, 2018), pp. 237–50.
“Sacrifice and Priesthood. Maritain’s Still Untrammeled Approaches” in The Things That Matter. Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed. Heidi M. Giebel (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association, 2018), pp. 197–208.
“Aquinas on Virginity and Celibacy” in San Tomasso. Il Marimonio e la Familiga, ed. S.–T. Bonino & G. Mazzotta (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, 2019), pp. 195–207.
“Anointing of the Sick: The Sanctification of Human Suffering,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 17 (2019): 1–11.
“Human Emotion within the Theologal Life,” in Le Emozioni secondo san Tommaso, ed. S.–T. Bonino & G. Mazzotta (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, 2019), pp. 189–199.
“Katholieke priesters: onontbeerlijk en onvervanbaar,” Communio, Dutch edition, Vol. 44, nr. 2 (2019): 142–154.
“Satisfaction, a Reprise for Catholic Theology,” in San Tommaso e la salvezza, ed. S.–T. Bonino & G. Mazzotta (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, 2020), pp. 243–253.
“Benedict Ashley, O.P., Theologies of the Body 1995,” in Grande opere del Tomismo nel Novecento, ed. S.–T. Bonino (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, 2020), pp. 203–209.
“Sanctified Thought and Affection in Aquinas’s Teaching on Nature and Grace,” The Thomist 84 (2020): 467–80.
“Sixteenth–Century Reception of Aquinas by the Council of Trent and Its Main Authors, in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas, ed. Matthew Levering & Marcus Plested (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 159–172.
“An Exercise in Christian Philosophy: The Intellectual Daring of Giuseppe Abbà,” Salesianum 83 (2021): 706–717.
“Purgatory: A Place of Christian Satisfaction,” in Hope & Death. Christian Responses, ed. M.A. Dauphinais & R.W. Nutt (Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2022), pp. 165–178.
“The Priest and the Friend: Notes on Priestly Formation and on Christian Life in General,” Analecta of the UCU: Theology 9 (2022): 115–128.
“Mary in Catholic Higher Education,” in Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher, ed. M.A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, OP, & R.W. Nutt (ɫ��ӰƬ, FL: Sapientia Press, 2023), pp. 245–257.

Sanctifying Truth: Thomas Aquinas on Christian Holiness

These insightful reflections from Father Cessario explore the riches of thought that have become known as Thomist theology in a way that makes them accessible to anyone interested in growing closer to the Divine Wisdom that permeates all creation.

The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church

This book examines why participation in the sacramental life of the Church is required for the believing Christian and helps readers understand the role the sacraments play in the sanctification of the world.

The Godly Image: Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas

Ecumenical work requires a proper understanding of the place that satisfaction holds in Christian theology. Various factors operative since the sixteenth century have worked to displace satisfaction almost entirely from reformed practice and theology.

THE GRACE TO BE A PRIEST

In this text, Father Cessario explains how the vocation to the priesthood comes to a man as both gift and mystery. God chooses priests to serve as both instruments of his will and spiritual fathers for his people.

Books

Cessario, Romanus. Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982.
Cessario, Romanus. The Godly Image: Christ and Salvation in Catholic Thought from Anselm to Aquinas. Studies in Historical Theology VI. Petersham, MA: St. Bede's Publications, 1990.
O’Neill, Colman E., O.P. Meeting Christ in the Sacraments. Revised by Romanus Cessario, O.P. New York: Alba House, 1991.
Cessario, Romanus. The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. Notre Dame/London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
Cessario, Romanus. Le Virtù. Volume 19 of Manuali di Teologia Cattolica (AMATECA), Sezione sesta: La persona umana. Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book, 1994. Spanish edition: Las virtudes. Valencia: Edicep, 1998. English edition: Virtues, or the Examined Life. New York: Continuum, 2002. Croatian edition: Kreposti. Zagreb: Kršćanska sadašnjost, 2007.
Cessario, Romanus. Perpetual Angelus. As the Saints Pray the Rosary. New York: Alba House, 1995.
Cessario, Romanus. Christian Faith and the Theological Life. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996.
Cessario, Romanus, J. A. DiNoia, B. G. O’Donnell, and P. J. Cameron. A Love That Never Ends. A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1996.
Bedouelle, Guy, and Kevin White, eds. Jean Capreolus en son temps (1380-1444). (Mémoire Dominicaine, numéro spécial, 1). Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1997.
Cessario, Romanus, and J. A. DiNoia, O.P., eds. Veritatis Splendor and the Renewal of Moral Theology. Studies by Ten Outstanding Scholars. Chicago: Midwest Theological Forum, 1999.
Cessario, Romanus. Le thomisme et les thomistes. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1999. English edition: Cessario, Romanus. A Short History of Thomism. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Cessario, Romanus, and Kevin White, eds. John Capreolus (1380–1444): Treatise on the Virtues. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001.
Cessario, Romanus. Introduction to Moral Theology. Revised Edition. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
Cessario, Romanus, ed. Boston’s Cardinal. Bernard Law, the Man and His Witness. Biographical Essay by Mary Ann Glendon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.
Cessario, Romanus. The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics. Second Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Last Words of Jesus. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2009. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taiwan: Catholic Window Press, 2010.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Joys of Mary. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2011. French edition, trans. Guy Bedouelle, O.P., 2013. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuangchi Cultural Group, 2015.
Cessario, Romanus, Craig Steven Titus, and Paul C. Vitz, eds. Philosophical Virtues and Psychological Strengths. Introduction by Romanus Cessario. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press, 2013.
Cessario, Romanus. Introduction to Moral Theology. Revised Edition. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Sorrows of Mary. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2014. French edition, trans. Catherine Mas–Mézéran, 2017. Spanish edition, trans. Pablo Cervera Barranco, 2017. Chinese edition, trans. Phyllis Chang. Taipei, Taiwan: Kuangchi Cultural Group, 2019.
Cessario, Romanus. Theology and Sanctity. Edited by Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. ɫ��ӰƬ, FL: Sapientia Press, 2014.
Cessario, Romanus. Compassionate Blood: Catherine of Siena on the Passion. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2016.
Cessario, Romanus, and Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017. Spanish edition: Cessario, Romanus, and Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. Tomás Y Los Tomistas: El Logro de Tomás De Aquino y sus intérpretes. Toledo: Ediciones Cor Iesu, 2021.
Cessario, Romanus. The Grace to Be a Priest: Cluny Media, 2017.
Cessario, Romanus. The Godly Image. Christian Satisfaction in Aquinas. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 2020.
Cessario, Romanus. Sanctifying Truth: Thomas Aquinas on Christian Holiness. Paris/New York: Magnificat, 2021.
Cessario, Romanus. The Seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023.

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Articles

“Theology at Fribourg,” The Thomist 51 (1987): 325–366.
“The Meaning of Virtue in Catholic Moral Life: Its Significance for Human Life Issues,” The Thomist 53 (1989): 173–96.
“Casuistry and Revisionism: Structural Similarities in Method and Content,” in “Humanae Vitae”: 20 Anni Dopo. Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Theologia Morale, vol. III (Milano: Edizioni Ares, 1990): 385–409.
“Christian Satisfaction and Sacramental Reconciliation,” Communio 16 (1989): 186–196.�� Reprinted in Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments: Studies in Sacramental Theology, ed. M. Levering and M. Dauphinais (Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2009), pp. 65–75.
“Aquinas on Nature and Grace” in Catholicism and Secularization in America, ed. David L. Schindler (Notre Dame, IN: Communio Books, 1990): 207–10.
“La tradition thomiste et l’oeuvre de l’Esprit: les dons d’intelligence et de science,” Nova et Vetera 65 (1990): 259–267.
“Christ and Reconciliation,” Faith & Reason 17 (1991): 15-50.
“Lacordaire et les États-Unis,” in Lacordaire, son pays, ses amis et la liberté des ordres religieux en France, ed. Guy Bedouelle (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1991): 333–347.
“A Thomist Interpretation of Faith: The Gifts of Understanding and Knowledge,” in Novitas et Veritas Vitae. Aux Sources du Renouveau de la Morale Chrétienne. Mélanges offerts au Professeur Servais Pinckaers à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, ed. Carlos–Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1991): 67–102.
“Incarnate Wisdom and the Immediacy of Christ’s Salvific Knowledge,” in Problemi teologici alla luce dell'Aquinate (Atti del IX Congresso Tomistico Internazionale). Studi Tomistici 44 (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1991): 334–340.
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Satisfaction, Indulgences, and Crusades,” Medieval Philosophy & Theology 2 (1992): 74–96.
“Virtue Theory and the Present Evolution of �ճ�ǳ��,” in The Future of Thomism, ed. Deal W. Hudson and Dennis Wm. Moran (Notre Dame, IN: American Maritain Association, 1992): 291–299.
“An Observation on Robert Lauder’s Review of G.A. McCool, S.J.,” The Thomist 56 (1992): 701–710.
“Lacordaire and the United States,” The Catholic Historical Review 78 (1992): 197–206.
“Boethius, Christ, and the New Order,” Carmina Philosophiae 1 (1992): 53-64.�� Reprinted in New Directions in Boethian Studies, ed. Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr. and Philip Edward Philips, Studies in Medieval Culture XLV (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), 157–168.
“Is Aquinas’s Summa Only About Grace,” in Ordo Sapientiae et Amoris.�� Hommage au Professeur Jean-Pierre Torrell OP à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire, ed. Carlos–Josaphat Pinto de Oliveira (Fribourg: Editions Universitaires, 1993): 197–209. Reprinted in Reason and the Rule of Faith, ed. Christopher J. Thompson and Steven A. Long (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2011), 43–53.
“Moral sexual christiana dentro de una estructura más amplia,” ��á�ѲԱ�� 3 (1993): 5–25.
“Le Père Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964),” Sources 20 (1994): 206–208.
“Early Dominican Confessional Practice,” New Blackfriars 75 (1994): 425–428. [French translation: “Les Premiers Dominicains et la confession,” Mémoire Dominicaine 5 (1994): 283–286.]
“The Church, Higher Education, and Global Concerns,” Josephinum Journal of Theology 2 (1995): 25–33.
“Moral Absolutes in the Civilization of Love” in The Splendor of Truth and Health Care, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Russell E. Smith, (Braintree, MA: The Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center, 1995): 43–57. Reprinted in Crisis 13 (May, 1995): 18–23.
“Boèce, le Christ et la civilisation européenne,” Pierre d’angle 1 (1995): 51–60.
“Toward Understanding Aquinas’ Theological Method: The Early Twelfth–Century Experience” in Studies in Thomistic Theology, ed. Paul Lockey (Notre Dame, IN: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1995): 17–89.
“Epieikeia and the Accomplishment of the Just” in Aquinas and Empowerment: Classical Ethics for Ordinary Lives, ed. G. Simon Harak (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996): 170–205.
“The Spirituality of St. Thomas Aquinas,” Crisis 14 (July/August 1996): 14–16.
“Evangelization and Our Present Circumstances: In Praise of Virtue” in The Church’s Mission of Evangelization, ed. William E. May, (Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 1996): 129–152.
“Éloge des vertus chrétiennes pour un temps de crise,” Pierre d’angle 2 (1996): 53–71.
“Saint Thomas, Durand de Saint-Pourçain et Capreolus: Le Débat sur la foi” in Jean Capreolus en son temps (1380-1444), ed. Guy Bedouelle, Romanus Cessario, and Kevin White ( Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1997): 159–164.��
“Christian Virtue and Public Morality,” Rivista Teologica di Lugano 2 (1997): 27–42.
“À nos lecteurs: sur le paradoxe de l’existence chrétienne entre foi et modernité. La foi comme Dieu l'a révélée,” Pierre d’angle 3 (1997): 18–26.
“On Bad Actions, Good Intentions, and Loving God: Three Much-Misunderstood Issues about the Happy Life that St. Thomas Clarifies for Us,” Logos 1.2 (1997): 100–124.
Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine, ed. Russell Shaw (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1997), s. vv. “Assent and Dissent,” “Atheism,” “Bishop,” “Celibacy, Priestly,” “Deacon,” “Holy Orders,” “Ministry,” “Modernism,” “Priest,” and “Priesthood of Christ.”
“Theological Literacy and Theological Science” in Boston Theological Institute Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 24 (18 Mar 1998): 1–2.
“More Good News,” Catholic Dossier 4.2 (March-April 1998): 54–55.
“The Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, Person of Love,” Catholic International 9 (May 1998): 220–224.
Dizionario di Mistica, ed. L. Borriello, et al. (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1998), s. vv. “Tommaso D’Aquino (santo)” and “Garrigou-Lagrange, Reginald.”
“The D.E.S. Motto and the Benedictine Tradition: A Thomistic Connection,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal 43 (1998): 88–90.
“St. Therese, Seminarians, and the Future,” Catholic Dossier 4.6 (November-December 1998): 14–16.
“John Poinsot: On The Gift of Counsel” in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and Education, ed. Daniel McInerny (Mishawaka: American Maritain Association, 1999): 163–178.
“The Reason for Reason: Fides et Ratio,” Crisis 17 (January 1999): 16–19.
“Thomas Aquinas: A Doctor for the Ages,” First Things (March 1999): 27–32.�� Reprinted in The Second One Thousand Years. Ten People Who Defined the Millennium, ed. Richard John Neuhaus (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001): 28–39.
“Reply to Professor Gilbert Morris,” First Things (June/July 1999): 7.
“Fides et Ratio. Un appel à la vérité et à la réconciliation,” Pierre d’angle 5 (1999): 32–38.
“What the Angels See at Twilight,” Communio 26 (Fall 1999): 583–594. [French translation: “Ce que les anges voient au crépuscule,” Communio 25 (nov.–déc. 2000): 41–51.]
“Custodia Condicional de la Vida Humana. Un principio moral de Juan Pablo II” in El Dios y Padre de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, ed. José Luis Illanes et al., (Pamplona: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2000): 427–432.
“Infallible Teaching and the Gift of Divine Truth,” Catholic Dossier 6.3 (May- June 2000): 5–8.
“Un “salut civil”? Vie et famille dans la doctrine catholique,” Pierre d’angle 6 (2000): 185–97.
“Sacramental Confession and Addictions” in Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Edward J. Furton (Boston, MA: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2000): 125–139.
New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jubilee Volume: The Wojtya Years, s.v. “Schönborn, Christoph.”
“Towards an Adequate Method for Catholic Bioethics,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 1 (2001): 51–62.
The Dictionary of Historical Theology, ed. Trevor A. Hart (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001), s.v. “Gilson, Étienne (1884–1978).”
“En partant d’une chanson de Gershwin...,” Pierre d’angle 7 (2001): 41–47.
“Duplex ordo cognitionis,” Doctor Communis II, n.s., Atti della II Sessione Plenaria, 22-24 Giugno 2001 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2002): 102–109; 141–142.
“The Theological Virtue of Hope (IIa IIae qq. 17-22)” in The Ethics of Aquinas, ed. Stephen J. Pope (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002), pp. 232–243.
“The Sacramental Mediation of Divine Friendship and Communion,” Faith & Reason 27 (2002): 7-41.
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2^nd ed., vol. 4, s.v. “Consequentialism.”
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2^nd ed., vol. 3, s.v. “Casuistry,” with E. Hamel.
“Mary in the Dominican Tradition,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 1 (2003): 27–42.
“Entendre les Mystères. Musique liturgique et foi théologale,” with Jonathan Gaspar, Pierre d’angle 9 (2003): 135–50.
“C�ǴǱ��پ��ǲ�, Veritatis splendor, and the Luminous Mysteries” in Walk as Children of Light: The Challenge of Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Workshop for Bishops, Dallas, Texas, ed. Edward J. Furton (Boston, MA: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2003): 47–67.
“Life and Family as Themes in Catholic Social Thought” in Indubitanter ad Veritatem.�� Studies Offered to Leo J. Elders, S.V.D. in Honor of the Golden Jubilee of his Ordination to the Priesthood, ed. Jörgen Vijgen (Budel: Damon, 2003), pp. 69–79.
“Aquinas on Christian Salvation” in Aquinas on Doctrine. A Critical Introduction, ed. Thomas Weinandy, Daniel Keating, John Yocum (London: T&T Clark International, 2004), pp. 117–37.
“Response” in Book Symposium, Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 2 (2004): 208–10.
“Mel Gibson and Thomas Aquinas: How the Passion Works,” ZENIT, 9 April 2004.�� Available from englishzenit@zenit.org, INTERNET. [German translation: “Wie die Passion Christi die Erlösung bewirkt–Mel Gibson und Thomas von Aquin,” Una Voce–Korrespondenz 34 (2004): 131–38.]
“Conditional Stewardship of Life: A Moral Principle of John Paul II” in Moral Issues in Catholic Health Care, ed. Kevin T. McMahon (Overbook, PA: Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, 2004), pp. 120–38.
“Sex, Lies, and Freud,” Logos 7.3 (2004): 47–59.
“Mel Gibson et saint Thomas d’Aquin: Un regard théologique sur La Passion du Christ,” Pierre d’angle 10 (2004): 185–94.
“Why Aquinas Locates Natural Law within the Sacra Doctrina,” in St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition. Contemporary Perspectives, ed. John Goyette, Mark S. Latkovic, and Richard S. Myers (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. 79–93.
“The Light of Tabor: Christian Personalism and Adoptive Friendship,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 2 (2004): 237–47. Reprinted in L’Antropologia della Teologia Morale Secondo L’Enciclica “Veritatis Splendor.” Atti del Simposio promosso dalla Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, Roma, settembre 2003 (Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2006), pp. 92–101.
“Mel Gibson’s Movie & Thomas Aquinas’s Modes: How the Passion of the Christ Works,” Saint Austin Review 4 (2004): 27–32.�� [Dutch translation: “Mel Gibson en Thomas van Aquino over de Passie van Christus” in Doctor Humanitatis, vol. 1, De actualiteit van Sint-Thomas van Aquino, ed. Jörgen Vijgen (Hoofddorp: Uitgeverij Boekenplan, 2005).] “Mel Gibson’s ‘Passion’ & Aquinas’s Five Modes: How the Passion of Christ Works,” The Premier International Fan Website, Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” Available , INTERNET.]
“Walk According to the Light. An Illustration from North America” in Camminare nella Luce. Prospettive della teologia morale a partire da ‘Veritatis splendor,’” ed. Livio Melina and José Noriega (Rome: Lateran University Press, 2004), pp. 401–07.
“Capreolus on Faith and the ‘Theologal’ Life” in: Essays in Medieval Philosophy and Theology in Memory of Walter H. Principe, CSB: Fortresses and Launching Pads, ed. James R. Ginther and Carl N. Still (Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005), pp. 135–141.
“Duplex Ordo Cognitionis” in Reason and the Reasons of Faith, ed. Paul J. Griffiths and Reinhard Hütter (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), pp. 327–338.
“‘Worthy of the Temple’: Liturgical Music and Theologal Faith,” with Jonathan Gaspar, Nova et Vetera, English Edition 3 (2005): 673–688.
“Catholic Hospitals in the New Evangelization,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 675–686.
“Person & Being: Theological and Psychological Considerations,” Doctor Communis, Atti della IV Sessione Plenaria, 25–27 Giugno 2004 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2006): 75–84.
“‘Circa res ...aliquid fit’ (Summa theologiae II-II, q. 85, a. 3, ad 3): Aquinas on New Law Sacrifice,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition 4 (2006): 295–312.
“The Sacred, Religion, and Morality,” Doctor Communis VII, n.s., Atti della V Sessione Plenaria, 24-26 Giugno 2005 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2006): 173–186.
“Johannes Capreolus” in Thomistenlexikon, ed. David Berger & Jörgen Vijgen (Bonn: Nova & Vetera Verlag, 2006), pp. 302–311.
“The Sacred, Religion, and Morality,” Logos 9.4 (2006): 16–32.
“Catholic Considerations on Palliative Care,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 6 (2006): 639–650.
“Moral Theology on Earth: Learning from Two Thomases,” Studies in Christian Ethics 19 (2006): 305–322.
“Hommage au Père Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, OP. The Significance of His Work,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5 (2007): 1–16.
“The Theological Heritage of Pope Benedict XVI,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 5 (2007): 267–270.
“Moral Realism and Christian Values” in The Person and the Polis. Faith and Values within the Secular State, ed. Craig Steven Titus (Arlington, VA: The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press, 2007), pp. 153–73.
“Tanquam spiritualis pulchritudinis amatores. The Consecrated Vocation of Matthew Lamb” in Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship.�� Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb, ed. Michael Dauphinais & Matthew Levering (Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007), pp. 17–45.
“Saint Thomas and the Enculturation of the Natural Law: Doing Moral Theology on Earth,” Doctor Communis, Atti della VI Sessione Plenaria, 23–25 Giugno 2006 (Vatican City: Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, 2007): 41–53.
“Reply to Edward T. Oakes, S.J.,” First Things (October 2007): 8–9.
“Thomas d’Aquin, apôtre du sens commun,” Pierre d’angle 13 (2007): 49–56.
“Sonship, Sacrifice, and Satisfaction: The Divine Friendship in Aquinas and the Renewal of Christian Anthropology,” Letter & Spirit 3 (2007): 71–93.
“In Honor of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.: Priest, Scholar, and Living Memory,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 245–246.
“The Sacraments of the Church” in Vatican II. Renewal Within Tradition, ed. Matthew L. Lamb & Matthew Levering (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 129–146.
“On Moral Theology” in Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition, ed. David L. Schindler, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008), pp. 297–302.
“Scholarship and Sanctity,” Second Spring 10 (2008): 13–20.
“Love, Friendship, and Beauty: On the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of a Magisterial Document about Religious Life and the Apostolate, Logos 11.4 (2008): 147–163.
“The Quarry Workers,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 669–674.
“Humanae Vitae, the Maritains, and Maurice Sachs,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 6 (2008): 711–730.
“Freedom and Satisfaction” in The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom, ed. Peter A. Pagan & Terese Auer, O.P., (Washington, DC: American Maritain Association, 2009), pp. 207–225.
“O que os anjos vêem: natureza e graça,” Lumen Veritatis 2, N○ 5 (2008): 121–25.
“On the Place of Servais Pinckaers († 7 April 2008) in the Renewal of Catholic Theology,” The Thomist 73 (2009): 1–27.
New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009. 2 vols. (Detroit: Gale, 2009), 1: 191–193, s. v. “Consequentialism.”
“Hommage au Père Servais Pinckaers, O.P.: L’importance de son oeuvre” in Renouveler toutes choses en Christ. Vers un renouveau thomiste de la théologie morale, ed. Michael S. Sherwin, O.P., and Craig Steven Titus, Etudes d’éthique chrétienne, NS 5 (Fribourg: Academic Press, 2009), pp. 6–19.
“Saint Thomas Aquinas: ‘The Apostle of Common Sense,’” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 7 (2009): 563–68.
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“Maurice Sachs et les Maritain,” Pierre d’angle 15 (2009): 127–144.
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