ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
B. A. (Hons.) (History) (University of Sydney, 1982)
LL. B. (University of Sydney, 1984)
B. THEOL. (Hons.) (Systematic Theology) (Melbourne College of Divinity, 1991
D.PHIL. (Bioethics) (University of Oxford, 1995

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Current Positions
Director of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne 2000-2004.
Professor of Moral Theology and Bioethics in the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne since 2000
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Catholic Theological College since 2001
Visiting Professor of Bioethics, Indian Session, John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family since 2001

Previous Positions
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne: Lecturer in Ethics and Moral Theology, 1995-2000
John Plunkett Centre for Ethics in Health Care, Sydney: Research Associate, 1995-2000
Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics, London: Associate, 1991-94
Uniya Centre for Social Research, Sydney: Research Officer 1990-91
Some lecturing in the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Oxford

ECCLESIASTICAL POSITIONS
Universal Church
Friar of the Order of Preachers since 1985; priest since 1991; Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life since 2002; Invited presenter at International Conference of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Professionals, 2000, Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Sydney, 2003-

Archdiocese of Melbourne
Episcopal Vicar for Health Care, 1997-2002; Senate of Priests since 1998 (Secretary 2002-03); various committees; Spiritual Director for candidates for the priesthood at Corpus Christi Seminary since 2000; Chaplain to the Catholic Doctors' Association of Victoria, 1998-2002; Convenor of Melbourne Pro-Life Forum, 1998-2002

Dominican Order
Provincial Councillor since 1997; Socius to the Provincial since 2000; Master of Students since 2000; various boards, committees, positions


CONSULTANCIES
Australian Bishops
Member of Bioethics Advisory Panel of Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference
Research Department since 1990; principal writer of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Social Justice Statement; Private adviser to the Archbishop of Melbourne since 1995 and member of various Archdiocesan advisory committees

UK Bishops
Member of various working parties of the Catholic Bishops' Joint Committee on Bioethical Issues (Britain & Ireland), 1991-2000; principal writer of Bishops' Statement on the Allocation of Healthcare (2001)

Government
Principal Adviser to the British All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Committee on medical ethics and social policy, 1991-95; Private adviser to several Australian politicians

Hospitals
Prepared policies of various hospitals on range of issues; principal writer (with three others) of Catholic Health Australia Code of Ethical Standards (2001)

PUBLICATIONS
Summary
Principal author or co-author of seven books-on abortion, reproductive technologies, healthcare rationing, other bioethical issues, the immigration debate, and legal history
Over 50 published academic articles - on ethical, legal and theological subjects Over 50 published newspaper or magazine articles, book reviews, conference reports etc.

Books published

• A History of Solicitors in New South Wales. With J.M. Bennett and E.J. Minchin. Sydney: Legal Books, 1984.
  
• Abortion in Australia: Answers and Alternatives. With Jane Buckingham. First printing: Melbourne: Dove Communications, 1985. Second printing: Sydney: Foundation for Human Development 1991.
  
• Code of Ethical Standards for Catholic Health and Aged Care Services in Australia. With B. Tobin, C. Gleeson and M. Byrne. Canberra: Catholic Health Australia, 2001.
  
• I am a stranger: will you welcome me? The immigration debate. Melbourne: Collins Dove/ ACSJC, 1991.
  
• IVF: The Critical Issues. Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1989.
  
• Relevant Ethical Issues in Healthcare. With F. Gomez & H. Bustamanthe. Manila: UST Bioethics, 1996.
  
• Healthcare Allocation: An Ethical Framework for Public Policy. With Luke Gormally and others. London: Linacre Centre, 2001.

Books in preparation

• Catholic Health Care Ethics: A 21st Century Introduction.
  
• Mediaeval Philosophy for the 21st Century. With Hayden Ramsay.
  
• Marriage, Family and Population: Trends and Challenges. (Editor)

Booklets published

• Briefing on Assisted Conception: Ethical and Social Problems. Leamington Spa: Life, 1994.
  
• Catherine's Theology of the Laity. Providence RI: Providence College, 1996.
  
• Jesus: 'Glutton and Drunkard'. Manchester: Blackfriars Publications, 1995.
  
• Killing and Letting Die: What's the Difference? London: Signum (No. 21), 1993.
  
• The Consequences of Abortion for Australia. John XXIII (College) Series No. 2. Australian National University, Canberra, 1991.
  
• Human life is God's creation, not our commodity: Embryo destruction for stem cells, cloning, designer babies... where next? Melbourne: Respect Life Office, 2002.

Selected journal articles, encyclopaedia entries chapters in books and papers in conference proceedings on bioethics, sexuality, marital and family life, or other moral topics:

• "A guided tour of Evangelium vitæ," Australasian Catholic Record, 72(4) (Oct 1995), 445-462.
  
• A litany of sophistries: the Minority Report of the Senate Committee on Human Embryo Experimentation," Australasian Catholic Record, 64(1) (Jan 1987), 82-93.
  
• Abortion services report a missed opportunity," Bioethics Research Notes 7(3) (Sept 1995), 25-26.
  
• Accountant, Pollster, Samaritan: three models of justice in health care resource allocation," in John Flader (ed), Health Care in the Balance: Ethical Issues in Medical Funding (Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1997), 13-26.
  
• Adult science and adolescent ethics: A response to John Henley," in Hilary Regan et al (eds), Beyond Mere Health: Theology and Health Care in a Secular Society (Melbourne: Australian Theological Forum, 1996), 145-168.
  
• After Serrano: ethics, theology and the law of blasphemy," with Michael Casey & Hayden Ramsay, Law, Text, Culture 5(1) (2000),35-54.
  
• An ethic of life for the public square," The Tablet 251(8192) (9 August 1997), 1025-1027.
  
• An ethical view on resource allocation in health care," in Norman Ford (ed), Ethics and Resource Allocation in Health Care: Conference Proceedings (Melbourne: Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics, 1996), 23-28.
  
• Catholic teaching on abortion," Allen Review, 7 (Trinity 1992), 12-17.
  
• Challenging the Stem Cell Hype," Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Magazine (forthcoming: Dec 2002).
  
• Christian ethics, Roman Catholic," Encyclopædia of Applied Ethics (1998), vol 1, 471-492.
  
• Community encounter: a positive approach to heroin addiction," Thomas More Centre Bulletin 11(3) (October 1999), 10-11.
  
• Contrasting ethical approaches to organ transplantation and xenotransplantation," in Fausto Gomez and Anniela Yu-Soliven (eds), Love and Life-Making, Confidentiality, Xenotransplants and Aging (Manila: UST Department of Bioethics, 2000), 75-110.
  
• Does the Church's teaching on sex make sense?" Priests & People, 7(8&9) (Aug-Sept 1993), 317-322.
  
• Early induction of labor: legal and ethical considerations," with K. Clark, J. Keown and W. Neville, Linacre Quarterly 66(2), (May 1999), 7-25.
  
• Ethical and practical questions about the embryonic stem cell panacea," Australasian Science [forthcoming].
  
• Ethical questions about the embryonic stem cell panacea," Chiron [forthcoming 2003].
  
• Ethical issues in genetic screening," Bioethics Outlook 8(4) (Dec 1997), 1-12.
  
• Health cuts: the ethics of who wins and who loses," Interlogue, Nov 1996, 29-38.
  
• Humanæ vitæ in vitro: Australian press criticism of the Vatican Instruction on IVF," Australasian Catholic Record, 64 (4), Oct 1987, 400-21.
  
• Immigration scape-goating," Eureka Street, 1(7), Sept 1991, 4-5.
  
• Individuogenesis and a recent book by Fr Norman Ford," Anthropotes, 7(2), (Dec 1991), 199-244.
  
• In vitro fertilization from a Christian perspective," in Jan R. Schmidt (ed.), To the Unborn with Love (Adelaide: Lutheran Publishing House, 1990), 69-84.
  
• Is there a distinctive rôle for the Catholic hospital in a pluralist society?" in Luke Gormally (ed), Issues for a Catholic Bioethic (London: Linacre Centre, 1999), 200-230.
  
• Justice and the allocation of healthcare resources," in Gomez & Bustamanthe (eds), Relevant Ethical Issues in Healthcare (Manila: UST Bioethics, 1996), 43-58; republished in Philippiniana Sacra 31(92) (May-Aug 1996), 269-282.
  
• Killing and letting die: what's the difference?" in Gomez & Bustamanthe (eds), Relevant Ethical Issues in Healthcare (Manila: UST Bioethics, 1996), 59-71; republished in Philippiniana Sacra 31(91) (Jan-Apr 1996), 63-76.
  
• Life-affirming in Australia: past achievements, future challenges," in Laughter through Tears: Proceedings of Tenth Biennial Conference of the Australian Federation of Pregnancy Support Services (Geelong: AFPSS, 1997).
  
• Life issues for the Christian family in the 1990s," Australian Family, 11(2) (June 1990), 5-12.
  
• Moral decision-making in difficult dilemmas," Ethics Education, 5(1) (Feb 1999), 1-9.
  
• Of art and blasphemy," with Hayden Ramsay, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 3 (2) (June 2000), 137-167.
  
• Old law and new ethics: Bland's Case and not feeding the comatose," Law & Justice, 116/117 (Hilary/Easter 1993), 4-18.
  
• Old paradigms and new dilemmas in medical confidentiality," Bioethics Outlook 10(1) (Mar 1999), 1-12; also in Fausto Gomez and Anniela Yu-Soliven (eds), Love and Life-Making, Confidentiality, Xenotransplants and Aging (Manila: UST Department of Bioethics, 2000), 33-62.
  
• Should we starve the unconscious?" Australasian Catholic Record, 74(3) (July 1997), 315-329.
  
• Should smokers be denied certain treatments?" Chisholm Health Ethics Bulletin 6(3) (Autumn 2001), 4-7.
  
• Singer, Oderberg and Laing: a review article," Thomas More Centre Bulletin 9(1) (Mar 1997) 9-12.
  
• Some problems of conscience in bio-lawmaking," in Luke Gormally (ed), Culture of Life - Culture of Death (London: Linacre, 2002), 195-226.
  
• The bishop, the artist, the curator and the crucifix," with Hayden Ramsay, Quadrant 41(12) (Dec 1997), 48-53.
  
• The brave new world of genetic screening: ethical issues," in John Flader (ed), Death or Disability? Proceedings of a seminar at the University of Tasmania (Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1996), 16-34.
  
• The brave new world of reproductive technologies," Philippiniana Sacra 30(89) (May-Aug 1995), 277-292; republished in Gomez & Bustamanthe (eds), Relevant Ethical Issues in Healthcare (Manila: UST Bioethics, 1996), 1-16.
  
• The challenge of teaching the Catholic morality of sex, marriage and the family in the third millennium," in Tony Schmitz (ed), A Garland of Silver: A Jubilee Anthology in Honour of Archbishop Mario Conti (Aberdeen: Ogilvie Press, 2002), 99-143.
  
• The ethics of health care allocation," Catholic Medical Quarterly, 44(4) (May 1993), 13-20.
  
• The Holy Father's vision for the family," Evangelisation through the Family: Proceedings of the Conference of the Family Working Party of ACBC Committee for Family and Life (Canberra: ACBC, 2002), Attachment 5.
  
• The human genome project: hopes and fears," Philippiniana Sacra 30(90) (Sept-Dec 1995), 483-498; republished in Gomez & Bustamanthe (eds), Relevant Ethical Issues in Healthcare (Manila: UST Bioethics, 1996), 17-32.
  
• The incarnation and the fully human life," New Blackfriars, 73 (July-Aug 1992), 396-407.
  
• The new frontiers: challenges to the rehumanization of medicine," Dolentium Hominum 46(1) (2001), 85-95.
  
• The new immigration debate: challenges for ethics and environment," National Outlook, Dec 1990, 21-23.
  
• Theological aspects of euthanasia," in John Keown (ed.), Examining Euthanasia: Legal, Ethical and Clinical Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 315-332.
  
• Theology and the four principles of bioethics: a Roman Catholic view," with John Finnis, in Raanan Gillon (ed), Principles of Health Care Ethics (Chichester: Wiley, 1993), 31-44.
  
• Thomas Walter Joseph Ryan: celebration of a life," Bioethics Outlook 8(2) (June 1997), 1-3.
  
• What we can learn from the Abortion Report," Australasian Catholic Record, 75(3) (July 1998), 286-98.
  
• When Did I begin? Revisited," Linacre Quarterly, 58(3) (Aug, 1991), 59-68.
  
• Why some people are uneasy about injecting rooms," Bioethics Outlook, 10(3) (Sept 1999), 11-16.
  
• Why the Lords rejected euthanasia," Human Life Review, 22(3) (Summer 1996), 15-23.

Journal articles and chapters in books on other (non-moral) topics:

• A new interpretation of Fra Angelico," New Blackfriars, 75 (May 1994), 255-265, and (June 1994), 290-302.
  
• Certificated conveyancers," in J M Bennett (ed.), A History of Solicitors in New South Wales Sydney: Legal Books, 1984), ch. 17.
  
• Ernest Myer Mitchell, barrister & politician," Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volume 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), 528.
  
• Fra Angelico revisité," Mémoire Dominicaine, 7 (Automne 1995), 89-116.
  
• History of the Law Society," in J M Bennett (ed.), A History of Solicitors in New South Wales (Sydney: Legal Books, 1984), ch. 10.
  
• Lefebvrism--Jansenism revisited?" New Blackfriars, 71 (June 1990), 274-85.
  
• Norman conquest to the convict solicitors," in J M Bennett (ed.), A History of Solicitors in New South Wales (Sydney: Legal Books, 1984), ch. 1.
  
• Reflections on the readings for the Sundays and Feasts of August 1990," Australasian Catholic Record, 67(3), July 1990.
  
• Sir David Maughan, barrister," Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volume 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), 453-454.
  
• Why go to Confession?" The Allen Review, 10 (Hilary 1994), 33-36.

COURSE INVOLVEMENT AT THE INSTITUTE
2001
JP502/602 Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics
JP680 Research Method
JP522/622 Marriage in the Catholic Tradition
JP547/647 Theology and Practice of Natural Family Planning

2002
JP540/640 Foundations of Christian Moral Life
JP544/644 Beginning-of-Life Ethics
JP545/645 End-of-Life Ethics
Assisted Professor Bill May in JP523/623 Theology of the Family as the Domestic Church
JP527/627 Vatican II and John Paul II
JP543/643 Theological Bioethics and the Family
JP563/663 Parish and Family Ministry

2003
JP502/602 Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics
JP540/640 Foundations of Christian Moral Life (in Sydney)
JP546/646 Current Controversies in Bioethics
JP548/648 Natural Law, Life and the Family
JP566/666 Bioethics and the Law

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