In all of my courses I insist that my students exercise attentive and active presence to the professor and to everyone in the class. This attentive and active presence involves respect. I ask them to observe the following definition of being Catholic: “Being Catholic means being united with others, to help one another in the case of need, to learn by that which is good in others and to share generously one’s own good, it means trying to become acquainted with one another and accepting each other’s differences” (J. Ratzinger, “The Pastoral Implications of Episcopal Collegiality,” Concilium, I, I, 1965, p. 27).

In their spoken and written communication I ask my students to follow the “Criteria for the Evaluation of Inclusive Language” of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (November 15, 1990 which is available here as a PDF), please use horizontally gender-inclusive language wherever and whenever possible. This does not mean changing quoted material or the traditional nouns and pronouns referring to the members of the Christian Trinity. It does mean striving to speak beyond one’s own gender, race, nationality, vocation, and social or economic class.

 

Course Listings
Core Courses	Ecclesiology The Church in Consummation: Eschatology and Mariology Music and Liturgy Sacramental Theology Spiritual Theology
Elective Courses	Theology of C. S. Lewis Eschatology Gregorian Chant Liturgical Music Survey Mariology Pastoral Apologetics Joseph Pieper Pneumatology Special Studies in Eucharist Sunday Lectionary Virtues and Vices