The HHS Mandate: What Would Pope Paul VI Advise? (mp3 15.2 MB; talk approx. 45 min.; q&a approx. 20 min.) I am grateful to the Bishops for their courageous, outspoken, unified and strong opposition to the HHS mandate. I support them fully, and, like many Catholics, I am awestruck at their unified response. In this talk I look at aspects of the approaches [...]

Why Modern Science Needs John Paul II (mp3; to download right click and select save as)   (PDF Download)   Presented at: John Paul the Great Legacy Project Symposium; John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington DC  October 17, 2009  Abstract:  In this audio file I begin in part 1 by looking at a series of quotations from Pope John Paul II [...]

In this lecture I express some of the insights from Christian Personalism/Realist Phenomenology about the spiritual and bodily unity that human persons are and how these insights inform John Paul II’s Theology of the body. In other words, this lecture attempts to show the mystery and beauty of the fact that human persons are spiritual and bodily. In the end [...]

In this talk I try to express the sensitivity with which Pope John Paul II and other authors deal with the difficult question of suffering and its relationship to love. This talk was given at St. John of Rochester Catholic Church, Fairport, NY on February 13, 2008.   Relation between suffering and love in Catholic teaching (13.6MB, to download right [...]

Reflections on Christian Anthropology as the Foundation  of the Culture of Life. I attempt to explain why the Catholic Church opposes In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).  peterjcolosi.com

This is a brief additional point about a better option than IVF for couples struggling with infertility.

In this half hour interview I: (1) explain the moral questions surrounding stem cell research; (2) defend St. Thomas Aquinas against Nancy Pelosi; and (3) discuss the role of love in ethics using the words and caring actions of philosopher Peter Singer towards his mother at the end of her life.

In this 1/2 hour interview (video) I: (1) discuss the three main questions people often ask about suffering; (2) express John Paul II’s way of dealing sensitively with the question and (3) explore the way St. Maximillian Kolbe exemplified this challenging, yet fulfilling teaching. I also talk about Viktor Frankl, and his work Man’s Search for Meaning. There is a [...]

Peter J. Colosi, “The Uniqueness of Persons in the Life and Thought of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II, with Emphasis on His Indebtedness to Max Scheler”. Chapter 3 in Karol Wojtyla’s Philosophical Legacy, eds. Nancy Mardas Billias, Agnes B. Curry and George F. McLean, (Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2008), 61 – 100.   Colosi – [...]

Personhood, the Soul and Non-Conscious Human Beings: Some Critical Reflections on Recent Forms of Argumentation within the Pro-Life Movement. Life and Learning XVII, (Conference Proceedings of University Faculty for Life, Villanova University June 1-3, 2007), 277-304.   Colosi, Personhood, the Soul and Non-conscious Human beings.   This article explores a certain foundational problem I sometimes detect in some recent Prolife argumentation [...]