Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual National Conference-Meeting October 24-25, 2014 - Mount St. Mary’s University

Summary of Conference Schedule: FRIDAY Catholic Social Science Review Editorial Board Meeting: 8:00-9:00 Knott Auditorium (Editorial Bd. members only) SCSS Board of Directors Meeting: 9:00-11:00 Knott Auditorium (Board of Directors members only) Breakout Session 1: 12:30 – 2 Seminary 1a. Publicly Engaging Marriage, Family, Life Issues 1b. Wisdom from Popes Francis and John Paul the Great Plenary Session 1: 2:30-4 Knott Auditorium Brad Wilcox Family as a Social Justice Issue Breakout Session 2: 4- 5:30 Academic Center 2a. Family and the New Evangelization 2b. Christian Perspectives on Economics and Policy 2c. The Future of Western Secular Culture 2d. History Panel 1: American Catholic History Dinner: 6-7:30 Cardinal Keeler Dining Room; Patriot Hall SATURDAY Breakout Session 3: 8:30 – 10: Academic Center 3a. Public Questions of Marriage and Sexuality 3b. Theological and Philosophical Perspectives on Economics 3c. Political Science Old and New 3d. History and Geography Breakout Session 4: 10:15 – 11:45 Academic Center 4a. Political Science Panel 1 4b. History Panel 2 4c. The Church and Capitalism: Political Economy and Human Agency 4d. The Human Person: From New Natural Law Theory to Sociology LUNCH: 12-1: Available in Patriot Dining Hall (attendees on their own) Disciplinary Sections: 1-2: Academic Center Plenary Session 2: 2 – 3:15 Knott Auditorium Pat Fagan Marriage and Family: the Template of Society Breakout Session 5: 3:30 –5 Academic Center 5a. Political Science Panel 2: Presidential Power after Obama: A Question for Catholic Concern 5b. Church Teaching on Marriage and Family 5c. Society and Social Work 5d. Dignity and Social Justice MASS 6-7 Immaculate Conception Chapel

Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Meeting October 24-25, 2014

Mount St. Mary’s University

Detailed Conference Schedule: FRIDAY Catholic Social Science Review Editorial Board Meeting: 8:30-9:30 (Editorial Board members only) SCSS Board of Directors Meeting: 9:30-11:30 (Board of Directors members only) Breakout Session 1: 12:30 – 2 Seminary 1a. Publicly Engaging Marriage, Family, Life Issues Moderator: William Saunders Pat Fagan Christians Enjoy the Best Sexual Relations: The Data Illustrate the Divine Paradigm, and the

Divine Gift to Human History, That Christian Marriage Is William Saunders The Impact of 20 Week Abortion Restrictions 1b. Wisdom from Popes Francis and John Paul the Great Moderator: Marianne Siegmund Michael Ruszala Pope Francis and the Culture of Encounter Marianne Siegmund The Social Dimension of Prayer According to Pope Saint John Paul the Great Plenary Session 1 2:30-4 Knott Auditorium Brad Wilcox Family as a Social Justice Issue Breakout Session 2: 4- 5:30 Academic Center 2a. Family and the New Evangelization. Moderator Stephen Sharkey Fr. D. Paul Sullins Are Outcomes for All Family Types Alike?: New Sociological Findings on Same Sex Marriage and Parenting Stephen Sharkey Talking "Natural Law" in a Postmodern Culture: Some Sociological Observations Andrew Lichtenwalner Advocating for Marriage and the Family: Current US Bishops’ Programs and Pastoral Emphases 2b. Christian Perspectives on Economics and Policy Moderator: David Dieteman Alex Binder In Pursuit of the Common Good: Laissez-faire, Reform, or Revolution? Anamaria Conley The Christian Economist as Policy Advisor David Dieteman F.A. Hayek’s Missing Piece: Christianity 2c. The Future of Western Secular Culture Moderator: Andrew Essig Cecilia Castillo Law without Good as an End: Libertarian Law and the Deterioration of Community Laurence Reardon New Christendom or New Secularization?: Jacques Maritain’s Vision of Western Democracy

Revisited Mark Roberts Philosophical Presuppositions of Students at a Catholic and a Secular University 2d. History Panel 1: American Catholic History Moderator: David Gilbert Adam Tate Spreading Catholicism, Engaging Southern Culture: Catholics in Antebellum South Carolina Kevin Schmiesing Property in the U.S. Catholic Church

Dinner: 6-7:30 Cardinal Keeler Dining Room; Patriot Hall (A special SCSS Award

will be presented to Dr. Germain Grisez at the dinner, and SCSS President Stephen Krason will speak about the state of the SCSS and answer questions)

SATURDAY Breakout Session 3: 8:30 – 10: Academic Center 3a. Public Questions of Marriage and Sexuality Moderator: TBA Elizabeth Holmes Redefining Civil Society to Omit the Family Masks the Critical Contribution of the Family Mary Imperato From Public Morality to Individual Liberty: Understanding the Decriminalization of Violations

of Traditional Sexual Morality Jose David Lapuz Catholic Social Teaching Applied to Current Economic Social and Political Problems: The

Reproductive Health Law of the Congress of the Philippines--Problems and an Opportunity 3b. Theological and Philosophical Perspectives on Economics Moderator: TBA Virginia Arbery A Critique of Rational Choice Theory from an Aristotelian Perspective Joshua Schulz Christ's Transfiguration of Riches Carmine Gorga Economics of Sentimentality: Economics of Contemporary Society 3c. Political Science Old and New Moderator: Stephen Krason Joseph Herbert The Reward of a King: Political Philosophy and Shakespeare’s Richard III David Reichardt Is a Christian Center in Europe Emerging? A Comparison of the Level of Religiosity and

Secularization in the East-Central European Context Joseph Varacalli The Contemporary Tea Party Movement in the United States: History, Function, Impact, and

Catholic Critique 3d. History and Geography Moderator: TBA James Gaston Paul Vidal de la Blache, Geography, and the Unity of the Sciences Stephen Nakrois History and Hagiography: Researching the Modern Saint William Zehringer Alfred the Great and the Preservation of Christian Civilization Breakout Session 4: 10:15 – 11:45 Academic Center 4a. Political Science Panel 1 Moderator: Robert Hunt Ken Grasso The Twilight of American Christendom Gary Glenn Does Neuhaus’s Law also Apply to Public Morality? 4b. History Panel 2 Moderator: Kevin Schmiesing David Gilbert Protestant Strategies and Popular Resistance in the English Reformation Hanael Bianchi In the Pews after Vatican II: The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s GIFT program, 1970-1975 4c. The Church and Capitalism: Political Economy and Human Agency Moderator: Anamaria Conley Peter Colosi The Catholic Church and Capitalism Eileen Norcross & Christoper Koopman The Political Economy of Pope Francis John Larrivee Incorporating Human Agency and Civil Society into the Social Teachings Saturday: Breakout Session 4: 10:15- 11:45 (Ctd.) 4d. The Human Person: From New Natural Law Theory to Sociology

Moderator: Tobias Nathe Tobias Nathe How a Consistent Theo-Logic Discredits New Natural Law Theory Colbert Rhodes The Practice of Religious Truths are Central to Sorokin's Goal of Achieving Social

Reconstruction Clifford Staples Resisting the Dictatorship of Relativism with Josef Pieper’s Platonic Sociology LUNCH: 12-1: Available in Patriot Dining Hall Disciplinary Sections: 1-2: Academic Center Plenary Session 2: 2 – 3:15 Knott Auditorium Pat Fagan Marriage and Family: the Template of Society (The SCSS’s Pope Pius XI Award for Contributions toward the Building Up of a True Catholic Social Science will also be presented to Fr. James Schall, S.J.) Breakout Session 5: 3:30 –5 Academic Center 5a. Political Science Panel 2: Presidential Power after Obama: A Question for Catholic Concern Moderator: Stephen Krason Panelists: Steven Brust, Robert Hunt, Stephen Krason 5b. Church Teaching on Marriage and Family Moderator: Clifford Staples Msgr Robert Batule Humanae Vitae: How Cultural Facts on the Ground Vindicate its Teaching Robert Fastiggi Cardinal Kaspers’ Proposal for the Admittance of Divorced and Remarried Catholics to Holy

Communion 5c. Society and Social Work Moderator: Scott Hunt Michael Barga Orthodoxy and Progressivism in the Roman Catholic Church and the Social Work Profession Benjamin Brown Consumerism as Restless Detachment and Its Influence on Marriage and Family Life:

Understanding a Key Issue for Social Work and Evangelization Scott Hunt & Robin Haarr A Sequence of Sexual Violence against Smuggled Migrant Women: Pastoral Challenges Faced

along the “Journey of Hope” 5d. Dignity and Social Justice Moderator: Melvin Kulbicki Jean-Francois Orsini Three Dimensions of Human Dignity Joseph Friona Toward a Better Understanding of Social Justice Carmine Gorga Economics of Morality: Economics of Moses, Economics of Jesus MASS 6-7 Immaculate Conception Chapel