Member Profiles

William F. Murphy

St. Edmund’s Retreat, Mundelein Seminary

Education

S.T.D., Moral Theology, Pontifical John Paul II Institute

S.T.L., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies

B.A., Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

AMA Presentations

(2024) “Catholicism and Renewal of Constitutional Democracy: The Interwar Shift and its Relevance.”

Publications

Academic Articles

(2011) “Revisiting Contraception: An Integrated Approach in Light of the Renewal of Thomistic Virtue Ethics,” Theological Studies 72(4): 812-847.

(2009) “Thomistic Action Theory Revisited,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9 (2): 263-275.

(2008) “Developments in Thomistic Action Theory,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 8 (3): 505-527.

(2008) “A Reading of Aquinas in Support of Veritatis Splendor on the Moral Object,” Logos 11 (1):100-126.

(2004) “Revisiting the Biblical Renewal of Moral Theology in Light of Veritatis Splendor,” Nova et Vetera 2:403-444.

(2002) “Toward a Narrative of Truth and Freedom,” Logos 5 (3): 77-110.

(2002) “Christ as a Principle of Moral Action in Thomistic Ethics,” Angelicum 79 (1): 147–75.

(2001) “Martin Rhonheimer’s Natural Law and Practical Reason,” Sapientia 56 (210): 517-548.