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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!