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Concurrent Sessions on Applied Ethics

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Sunday, July 9 14.00-15.30 Applied Ethics Session I

 

Room 1: Contemporary Magisterial Teachings

Chair: Roger Burggraeve, BELGIUM

Gerard Mannion, ENGLAND , Unsanctifying Human life - Paradigm Change or Culture of Death?

John Perry, CANADA , Has Vatican II's teaching on the immorality of slavery been "received"?

Stephen Pope , US , "Deus Est Caritas": A Critical Asssessment

 

Room 2: Globalization

Chair: Marilyn Martone , US

Gerhard Kruip , GERMANY , The Concept of "Human Family" in the Social Doctrine of the Church and Philosophical Theories about Global Justice

Christopher Vogt, US, From Strangers to Neighbors: A Local View of the Global Issue of Human Migration

Josef Zalot , US , The Role of Catholic Ethics in the Global Economy: Lingering Questions and Emerging Trends

 

Room 3: L'Etica dell'Ambiente

Chair: Antonio Autiero, GERMANY

Giuseppe De Virgilio , ITALY , Modelli etici nell'ambiente delle Lettere Pastorali: un esempio di dialogo culturale con il mondo ellenistico

Karl Golser, ITALY , Il Compendio della dottrina sociale della Chiesa e l'etica dell'ambiente

Simone Morandini, ITALY , La responsabilità per l'ambiente nel Compendio della Dottrina Sociale Cattolica

 

Room 4: AIDS in AFRICA

Chair: Jon Fuller, US

Paul Chummar, KENYA , HIV/AIDS: a task for an inculturated moral theology in Africa

Victor Mundua, KENYA , A Pro-Life Ethics at the Age of Aids Pandemic in Africa

Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator , NIGERIA , Ethics of HIV/AIDS Prevention: Paradigms of a New Discourse from an African Perspective

 

Room 5: Environment

Chair: Johan Verstraeten , BELGIUM

Mark Graham , US , The Environmental Burden (Disaster?) of Catholic Act Analysis

SP Lourdusamy, INDIA , Environmental Degradation: The Poor as the Most Vulnerable Victims

Prem Xalxo , INDIA , Oraon Indigenous Eco-sensitive Morality: Its Implications and Applications for the Present

 

Room 6: SIDA

Chair: Paul Valadier, FRANCE

Catherine Fino, FRANCE, Pour une approche contextelle de la tradition pratique hospitalière.

Bertrand Lebouche, FRANCE , Religion in the AIDS crisis: Irrelevance, adversary or ally? The case of the Catholic Church (In French)

Vincent LeClercq, FRANCE, La vertu de l'écoute: comment médecins et théologiens peuvent-ils entendre les malade du SIDA ?

 

Room 7, La Experiencia Política, Economíca y Artistica

Chair: Rosana Manzini, BRAZIL :

Javier Galdona, URUGUAY , Compromiso social y político del cristiano en un contexto laicista

Alejandro Llorente, ARGENTINA , Algunos aspectos del pensamiento sobre el don como camino necesario de la economía. Reflexiones a la luz de Gaudium et spes 35

Carlos Novoa , COLOMBIA , Experiencia Artistica Y Teologia Moral

 

Room 8, Human Sexuality

Chair: Julie Claque, UK

Shaji George , INDIA , Conjugal Sexual Pleasure: Contemporary Theological Perspectives

Patricia Jung, US, Theological Reflections on Human Sexual Desire: Its Implications for Church Leadership

Joseph Selling, BELGIUM , The Multidimensionality of Human Sexuality and Sexual Ethics

 

Refettorio San Ignacio: Bioethics

Chair: Andrea Vicini, ITALY

John Slovikovski , US , Enhancement or Endangerment: An Anthropological, Ethical, and Theological Evaluation of Elective Cosmetic Surgeries

Gunther Virt, AUSTRIA , Within European Bioethical Culture: How will we arrive at Consensus?

James Walter, US, Human Gene Transfer: What Are The Contributions Of Theological Anthropology?

 

Teatro Antonianum: Human Rights

Chair: Regina Wolfe , US

John Mahoney, ENGLAND , The International Significance of Human Rights

Eko Armada Riyanto , INDONESIA , "Double Faces" of Human Right Issue in Indonesia

Richard Rwiza , TANZANIA , Ethics of Human Rights Reconsidered

 

 

Sunday, July 9, 16.00-17.30 Applied Ethics Session II

 

Room 1: Environmental Ethics

Chair: Emmanuel Katongole, UGANDA

Paulachan Kochappilly , INDIA , Christian Ethos and Environmental Ethics

Ann Marie Mealey, ENGLAND , Ego- or Ecological Virtues?

Slawomir Nowosad , POLAND , Anthropology as the basis for ecology

 

Room 2: Culture and Religion

Chair: Suzanne Mulligan, IRELAND

Christina Astorga, PHILIPPINES , Culture and Religion: Locus Theologicus for Moral Vision

Paul Cherdchai , THAILAND , Challenges in Ethics in Theravada Buddhist culture

Samuel Savio, INDIA , Toward the Retrieval of the Sense of the Sacred

 

Room 3: War and International Conflict

Chair: Kenneth Himes , US

Marcia Sichol, US, New Perspectives for the Nuclear Age

Brian Stiltner, US, Are Catholic Hopes for International Government Misplaced?

William Werpehowski, US, A Tale of Two Presumptions: The Development of Roman Catholic Just War Theory

 

Room 4: Method in Morals

Chair: Bernard Hoose, UK

Cathleen Kaveny , US , Prophecy and Casuistry in Political Ethics

Terence Kennedy, AUSTRALIA , Rhetoric and the Revival of Practical Reason in Moral Theology

Paulinus Odozor , NIGERIA , Richard A McCormick, SJ: Moral theologian of inculturation

 

Room 5: Embryonic Issues

Chair: Mary Jo Iozzio, US

Charles Camosy, US, New Techniques in Embryonic Stem Cell Procurement and the Moral Status of the Embryo

Darlene Fozzard Weaver, US, Embryo Adoption: Expanding the Terms of the Debate

Werner Wolbert , AUSTRIA , Saviour Siblings as test-case

 

Room 6: Casuistic Questions

Chair: Edward Vacek , US

Edward Sunshine , US , Menstrual Suppression and Pregnancy Avoidance: Redeeming the Pill in Catholic Theology

 

Room 7 Una Bioética Católica

Chair: Marciano Vidal, SPAIN

Jorge Ferrer, PUERTO RICO , Investigación Biomédica en Países en Vías de Desarrollo: Reflexiones desde una Bioética Católica

Roque Junges , BRAZIL , Las interfazes de la bioetica con la teologia

Jose Trasferetti and Ronaldo Zacharias , BRAZIL , Fundamentos teológicos para la prevención del HIV/AIDS en Brasil

 

Room 8: Marriage and Family

Chair: Christine Gudorf , US

Philippe Bordeyne , FRANCE , Marriage and its Fragility

Annemie Dillen , BELGIUM , Domestic violence against children and images of families and children: ethical reflections

Anthony LoPresti, US, Finding a Theological Home for Adoption

 

Refettorio San Ignacio: Hydration and Nutrition

Chair: Gerard Gleeson, AUSTRALIA

Brian Johnstone, AUSTRALIA / ROME , Nutrition and Hydration Questions: the Gift Model

John Paris , US , The Catholic Moral Tradition and the Removal of Hydration and Nutrition

David Smith , IRELAND , Ethical Criteria for Initiating or Withdrawing Peg Feeding (percutanoeous endoscopic gastrostomy)

 

Teatro Antonianum: Gender, Justice, and Bioethics

Chair: Kevin Dowling, SOUTH AFRICA

Maria Cimperman , US , Gender and Justice in an Age of AIDS: Last Call for Moral Theology?

Teresia Hinga , KENYA , Becoming Better Samaritans: Gender, Catholic Social Teaching and the Quest for Alternative Models of Doing Social Justice in Africa

Joseph Pushpa, INDIA , Christian Women and Bioethics: A Case Study From South India

Anozie Onyema , NIGERIA , Bioethics in Traditional African Morality

 

 

Monday, July 10, 14.00-15.30 Applied Ethics Session III

 

Room 1: Creation, the Land, and Stability

Chair: Philomena Mwuara , KENYA

David Clairmont, US, Time of Creation, Order of History: Resources for Environmental Ethics in Bonaventure's Moral Theology

Jason King , US , Community and a Vow of Stability

Uzochukwu Jude Njoku, NIGERIA , Understanding Gen 1, 28 in the Light of Sollicitudo rei socialis

 

Room 2: Access and Bioethics

Chair: David Smith, IRELAND

Kathryn Getek, US, Justice in Bioethics: Broadening the Debate of Distribution and Access to Include an Anthropology of Dependence

Mary Jo Iozzio, US, Disabilities: Thinking not of limits but of possibilities

Aaron Mackler, US, Who Should Receive What Care? A Dialogue of Catholic and Jewish Theological Ethics

 

Room 3: La Bioetica e L'Amore

Chair: Francesco Compagnoni, ITALY

Aristide Fumagalli, ITALY , La qualità cristiana della relazione amorosa

Mariella Lombardi Ricci, ITALY , Il fondamento antropologico della bioetica. Una possibile via per superare forme ideologizzate del dibattito?

 

Room 4: The Marriage Debate

Chair: Maureeen Junker-Kenny , IRELAND

Joyce Kloc Babyak, US, Same-Sex Unions

Michael Lawler and Todd Salzman, US, Catholic Sexual Ethics: The “Truly Human” and “Complementarity”

Carolyn Sharp, CANADA , Canadian Churches and the Marriage Debate

 

Room 5: Political Ethics

Chair: Gerard Mannion

Cristoph Baumgartner and Frans Vosman , NETHERLANDS , From Natural Law to Plausibility – A Contribution to a Political Ethics in Non- Homogeneous Contexts

Kieser , INDONESIA , Can the local church be a community of moral conversation/transformation?

 

Room 6: La Bioéthique

Chair: Philippe Bordeyne , FRANCE

Jean-Claude Otteni, FRANCE , Transmission des principes de la bioéthique aux étudiants en médecine, dans le contexte catholique

Amélie Roussel , FRANCE , Quand l'image du handicap défie la théologie

Marie-Jo Thiel, FRANCE, Nutrition et hydratation en fin de vie. Défis théologiques

 

Room 7: Bioética

Chair: Tony Mifsud, CHILE

Gustavo Irrazabal , ARGENTINA , Anticoncepción: ¿es posible un diálogo entre proporcionalismo y ética de la virtud?

José Manuel Silvero, PARAQUAY, El Principalismo y su proyección en Latinoamérica y en España

Sebastian Mier, MEXICO , "Opción por los pobres” criterio fundamental en Bioética

 

Room 8: AIDS

Chair: Edith Raidt, SOUTH AFRICA

Emmanuel Katongole, UGANDA , AIDS, Africa and the 'Age of Miraculous Medicine'

Gillian Paterson, GREAT BRITAIN , Who Sinned? Aids-Related Stigma and the Church

Emily Reimer-Barry, US, What are the "purposes" of marriage for HIV-positive Catholics?

 

Refettorio San Ignacio: Economic Issues and Globalization

Chair: Aloys Bush , NETHERLANDS

John Chathanatt, INDIA , Globalization and its Challenges, Effects and Responses from the South Asian Perspective.

Aquiline Tarimo , KENYA , Globalization and African Economic Reforms

Johan Verstraeten , BELGIUM , Ringing endorsement of capitalism, or radical criticism of private property? An unresolved tension in official Catholic Social Teaching

 

Teatro Antonianum: War

Chair: John Mahoney, UK

Kenneth Himes , US , Coercive Intervention, Nuclear Proliferation and the Just War Tradition

John Langan , US , Catholic Moral Theology and the War on Terrorism

Marilyn Martone, US, Wounded Soldiers, Identity Crises, and Scarce Resources

 

Tuesday, July 11, 11.00-12.30 Applied Ethics Sessions IV

 

Room 1: Globalization and Poverty

Chair: John Chathanatt, INDIA

Barbara Andolsen , US , Solidarity Under Pressure: the Middle-Class Squeeze

Kenneth Weare , US , Globalization and Free Trade Agreements: Ethical Analysis and Alternatives

Maria T Davila, US, The Preferential Option for the Poor and the Millennium Development Goals: What Can Be Recovered from Liberation Theology for Christian Solidarity in North America ?

 

Room 2: Human Rights, Justice and Poverty

Chair: Eko Armada Riyanto , INDONESIA

James Bailey , US , Assets, the Poor, and Catholic Social Thought

Meghan Clark , US , Human Rights as Participation

Diego Alonso-Lasheras , SPAIN , Justice as virtue in an economic context: The De Iustitia et Iure of Luis de Molina. A historical investigation and contemporary proposals

 

Room 3: Il Lavoro e il Potere

Chair: Giuseppe Trentin, ITALY

Cecilia Borgna , ITALY , Pensare Il Potere Dal Punto Di Vista Etico-Teologico

Gianni Manzone , ITALY , Il Lavoro tra Mercato e Riconoscimento: Per una Logica del Dono

 

Room 4: Sexuality and Research

Chair: Joseph Selling, BELGIUIM

Christine Gudorf, US, Research on Sexual Identity Formation: Problems for Moral Theory

Michael Hartwig , US , Right Action and Virtue: The Relevance of Sociological Studies in Underscoring the Virtues or Vices of Official Roman Catholic Sexual Ethics

George Worgul, US, Changing contours of intimacy, courtship and marriage in the USA 1960-2000: Sexual Ethics in the cultural ethos of Post-Modernity.

 

Room 5: Sex and Marriage

Chair: Patricia Jung , US

Ferdinand Dagmang, PHILLIPINES, The Structures of Sexual Intimacy in Capitalist Contexts

Edward Vacek , US , Augustine and Male Lust

Katharina Westerhorstmann, GERMANY , How to save marriage? Just be friends!

 

Room 6: Contemporary Challenges: Aging and the Press

Chair: Christopher Vogt , US

David DeCosse , US , Roman Catholic Social Teaching on the Freedom of the Press: Suggestions for Development in light of the sexual abuse scandals

Laurence McNamara , AUSTRALIA , Ageing Population, Ancient Church , New Directions

Room 7: La Vida, Los Pobres, y La Familia

Chair: Marcio Fabri, BRAZIL

Antonio Rodríguez, CUBA, La Familia en la Cultura Cubana Actual

Claudia Montes de Oca Ayala, BOLIVIA , La Dignidad de la Vida

Miguel Yáñez, ARGENTINA, La Opción por los Pobres ante el auge de la pobreza

 

Room 8: Method and Bioethics

Chair: John Paris , US

Daniel Daly , US , Prudence and Principles: Why the Virtues Must Guide the Treatment of PVS Patients

Steven O'Hala, US, The Hermeneutical Dimension of Medicine

Thomas Shannon, US, Divergent Methodologies in Catholic Bioethics

 

Refettorio San Ignacio: Social Ethics and its Context

Chair: Richard Rwiza, TANZANIA

Johannes Haryatmoko , INDONESIA , Does Christian Ethics Contribute to Social Ethics Solely by Refining the Concept of Responsibility?

Jan Jans, NETHERLANDS , Transparticularity: In search of a constructive-critical core for intercultural moral theology

Elisee Rutagambwa , RWANDA , The Politics of Memory, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Rwandan Post-Genocide Context

 

Teatro Antonianum: Toleration and Europe

Chair: Agnes Brazal, Philippines

Johan De Tavernier, BELGIUM , Tolerance, Pluralism, Identity, and Truth

Veerle Draulans , NETHERLANDS , European culture: tension between relative and total autonomy?

Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl , GERMANY , The Toleration of Tolerance: Tolerance – a forgotten Virtue!

 

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