Previous Years' Course Catalogues

This course aims to deepen awareness of personal, social, cultural, and religious dimensions of sexuality, especially as these affect selfhood and community, and to frame a constructive Christian sexual ethic. It will explore the meaning of sexuality as well as the requirements of sexual justice for church and wider publics. Challenges from various sources, including scripture, tradition, social and natural sciences, as well as pastoral practices arising out of social movements for personal, religious and communal well-being.

This course will examine current issues in end-of-life care in light of Catholic teaching and tradition. Topics to include: understanding death and suffering; decision-making at the end of life; mercy killing; physician-assisted death in Canada; hospice care; organ donation; forgoing treatment; children and end-of-life care; poverty and death - issues that challenge patients as well as families and health care profesisonals caring for persons as the end of life. Students will explore current debates on these topics and relevant Catholic Church teaching.

This course will examine current issues in end-of-life care in light of Catholic teaching and tradition. Topics to include: understanding death and suffering; decision-making at the end of life; mercy killing; physician-assisted death in Canada; hospice care; organ donation; forgoing treatment; children and end-of-life care; poverty and death - issues that challenge patients as well as families and health care profesisonals caring for persons as the end of life. Students will explore current debates on these topics and relevant Catholic Church teaching.

This course will examine current issues in end-of-life care in light of Catholic teaching and tradition. Topics to include: understanding death and suffering; decision-making at the end of life; mercy killing; physician-assisted death in Canada; hospice care; organ donation; forgoing treatment; children and end-of-life care; poverty and death - issues that challenge patients as well as families and health care profesisonals caring for persons as the end of life. Students will explore current debates on these topics and relevant Catholic Church teaching.

Informed by the social determinants of health and the ethos of Pope Francis' papacy, Justice and Health Care will view issues in health care ethics through the lens of justice and the priority of attending to the needs of the poor. Topics will include the meaning of justice; health as a communal rather than solely an individual phenomenon; effects of poverty on wellbeing; at-risk patient populations; health care professionals and justice. Using a combination of lectures and directed discussion, Justice and Health Care seeks to answer the questions: given the effects of socio-economic factors on wellbeing, what might justice mean in health care? what might a culture of care require?

Informed by the social determinants of health and the ethos of Pope Francis' papacy, Justice and Health Care will view issues in health care ethics through the lens of justice and the priority of attending to the needs of the poor. Topics will include the meaning of justice; health as a communal rather than solely an individual phenomenon; effects of poverty on wellbeing; at-risk patient populations; health care professionals and justice. Using a combination of lectures and directed discussion, Justice and Health Care seeks to answer the questions: given the effects of socio-economic factors on wellbeing, what might justice mean in health care? what might a culture of care require?

This course seeks to provide both an historical and a systematic overview of the development of social ethics within the Catholic tradition, noting major themes in the tradition. The course presumes that one has completed at least an introductory course in Christian ethics at the graduate level. The purpose of the course is to assist students in forming moral arguments, engaging discussions on emerging issues, and placing debates within their historical context, including their contemporary context. All students will at the end of the course be expected to have a firm grasp of the ethical teaching of the Church, including knowledge of key magisterial documents, as well as how to apply them to situations they will face in their ministerial context. While the course will attend to major magisterial works chronologically, it will engage the issues raised by those texts as they developed over time. For example, Pope John's encyclical, Pacem in Terris, will be linked with growing attention to human rights as a foundation for world peace.

This course seeks to provide both an historical and a systematic overview of the development of social ethics within the Catholic tradition, noting major themes in the tradition. The course presumes that one has completed at least an introductory course in Christian ethics at the graduate level. The purpose of the course is to assist students in forming moral arguments, engaging discussions on emerging issues, and placing debates within their historical context, including their contemporary context. All students will at the end of the course be expected to have a firm grasp of the ethical teaching of the Church, including knowledge of key magisterial documents, as well as how to apply them to situations they will face in their ministerial context. While the course will attend to major magisterial works chronologically, it will engage the issues raised by those texts as they developed over time. For example, Pope John's encyclical, Pacem in Terris, will be linked with growing attention to human rights as a foundation for world peace.

This course seeks to provide both an historical and a systematic overview of the development of social ethics within the Catholic tradition, noting major themes in the tradition. The course presumes that one has completed at least an introductory course in Christian ethics at the graduate level. The purpose of the course is to assist students in forming moral arguments, engaging discussions on emerging issues, and placing debates within their historical context, including their contemporary context. All students will at the end of the course be expected to have a firm grasp of the ethical teaching of the Church, including knowledge of key magisterial documents, as well as how to apply them to situations they will face in their ministerial context. While the course will attend to major magisterial works chronologically, it will engage the issues raised by those texts as they developed over time. For example, Pope John's encyclical, Pacem in Terris, will be linked with growing attention to human rights as a foundation for world peace.

This course seeks to provide both an historical and a systematic overview of the development of social ethics within the Catholic tradition, noting major themes in the tradition. The course presumes that one has completed at least an introductory course in Christian ethics at the graduate level. The purpose of the course is to assist students in forming moral arguments, engaging discussions on emerging issues, and placing debates within their historical context, including their contemporary context. All students will at the end of the course be expected to have a firm grasp of the ethical teaching of the Church, including knowledge of key magisterial documents, as well as how to apply them to situations they will face in their ministerial context. While the course will attend to major magisterial works chronologically, it will engage the issues raised by those texts as they developed over time. For example, Pope John's encyclical, Pacem in Terris, will be linked with growing attention to human rights as a foundation for world peace.

This course seeks to provide both an historical and a systematic overview of the development of social ethics within the Catholic tradition, noting major themes in the tradition. The course presumes that one has completed at least an introductory course in Christian ethics at the graduate level. The purpose of the course is to assist students in forming moral arguments, engaging discussions on emerging issues, and placing debates within their historical context, including their contemporary context. All students will at the end of the course be expected to have a firm grasp of the ethical teaching of the Church, including knowledge of key magisterial documents, as well as how to apply them to situations they will face in their ministerial context. While the course will attend to major magisterial works chronologically, it will engage the issues raised by those texts as they developed over time. For example, Pope John's encyclical, Pacem in Terris, will be linked with growing attention to human rights as a foundation for world peace.

This unit explores lgnatian mystical spirituality as a resource for the construction of religious narratives that contribute to intentional, social transformation in a post-secular context. Drawing principally on the lgnatian appropriation of monastic adaptation of rhetoric in the practice of mental prayer and the narrative theory of Paul Ricoeur, the course engages contemporary social theory to address issues of racism and other forms of systematic injustice. Students develop a transdisciplinary approach to ecological, social, cultural and ecclesial reconciliation. They also develop an understanding of the evolution of a religious and cultural recognition of the autonomous rights of indigenous peoples. Elements of recognition theory and transitional justice are introduced through a discussion of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Authors include: Marie Battiste, Judith Butler, Glen Sean Coulthard, Cynthia Crysdale, Nancy Fraser, Priscilla Hayner, Axel Honneth, Bernard Lonergan, Ronald Niezen, Paul Ricoeur, and Charles Taylor.