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Educational History
John Paul II Institute
for Marriage and Family, Melbourne, Australia (2005 – 2010)
PhD in Theology. Thesis title: “Gaudium et Spes
22 §1: a commentary from the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.” Supervisor:
Rev. John Saward. The back bone of the thesis is the application
of St. Thomas’s Scripture Commentaries to this passage
from Gaudium et Spes.
Residential period in Melbourne, with classes, June to November
2005.
International Theological
Institute, Gaming, Austria (2002 – 2005)
Masters in Theological Studies (summa cum laude). Dissertation
title: “The universal significance of the evangelical
counsels.”
University College London and Imperial College London
(1991 - 1992)
Masters of Science in Remote Sensing (with distinction).
International Language Institute, Cairo (1990)
Teaching English as a Foreign Language Certification.
School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London (1987 – 1990)
Bachelor of Arts Geography with Reference to Africa and Asia
(1st class honours).
St. John the Baptist
RC School, Woking, England (1981 – 1986)
3 Advanced Level (Geography A, Biology B, Physics B) and 13 Ordinary
Level certificates.
Employment History
Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, England (2007 - )
Associate Member of Faculty and course contributor to the Masters
in Marriage and Family Studies (2008 - ). Tutor for Bachelor
of Arts Divinity programme (2007-2010).
International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria
(2005 - )
Assistant Professor (MMF). Classes taught include Christology,
Sacramental Theology, Moral Theology, Theological and Philosophical
Anthropology, Pastoral Theology, Bioethics, The Theological Vision
of Lewis and Chesterton, and Marriage and Family in Sacred Scripture.
Department of Particle
Physics Royal Holloway University of London (2000 – 2002)
Computer Systems Administrator for a particle physics research
team.
Data Stream Ltd
Woking, England (1998 –1999)
Software Engineer for London Stock Exchange.
Earth Observation Sciences Ltd Farnham, England (1993-1998)
Scientific Programmer and Researcher. I worked in a team
that collaborated with numerous European universities, the European
Space Agency, and the Western European Union in various areas
of research, particularly artificial intelligence and machine
vision.
Department
of Photogrammetry and Surveying, University College London
(1992 – 1993)
University
researcher in the field of artificial intelligence for automated
satellite image interpretation.
Publications, presentations, and other academic work
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Civilization
of Love: The Catholic Vision for Human Society,
Gracewing Publishing, expected publication September 2011.
“The Theology of the Body
and Contraception: Two Irreconcilable Concepts of the Human
Person” in A Pure Heart Create for
Me, edited R. Colquhoun, Oxford: Family Publications, 2009.
“John Paul II and Gaudium
et Spes 22: his use of the text and his involvement in its authorship,” Anthropotes, Autumn 2009. Republished in the Josephinum
Journal of Theology, July 2010.
“Caritas in Veritate: Pope Benedict’s
Blue Print for Development,” The
Sower, Spring 2010.
“The Spiritual Meaning of
Caritas in Veritate” Pastoral Review, January 2010. Republished in Consortio, June 2010.
“Relativism: The Erosion of
Human Rights,” ZENIT, 24 February 2010.
“The Church: The True Friend of Democracy,” Pastoral
Review, July 2010.
“Same Sex Unions: Making the Distinctions,” The
Sower, August 2010.
“God, the King, and the Trial
of Thomas More,” ZENIT, September 2010.
“Technology as Ideology,” Inside
the Vatican, October 2010.
“Leo XII on the rosary and society,” Catholic
Herald, October 2010.
“Catholic Doctrine, Science, and Scientism,” The
Pastoral Review, January 2011.
“The Contribution of Matthias Scheeben to the Theology of Marriage,” Journal
of the International Academy of Marital Spirituality, February 2011.
“Beauty will save the World,” The
Latin Mass: A Journal of Catholic Culture and Tradition,
February 2011.
“Dominus Iesus: Ten Years On,” Homiletic
and Pastoral Review, February 2011.
“Condoms and HIV: The State of the Debate,” Linacre
Quarterly, February 2011.
“Two Trials, One Truth: Benedict XVI on Church and State,” The
Furrow, accepted 2011.
“Keeping a clean nose in a dirty world: the limits of cooperation with evil,” Homiletic
and Pastoral Review, accepted 2011.
“Priestesses? Why Not? A Guide for Catechists,” The
Sower, October 2011.
“Condoms and AIDS,” entry for Encyclopaedia
For Catholic Social Thought, Scarecrow Press, 2011.
“Benedict XVI and the link between life issues and social issues,” National
Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, accepted winter issue 2011.
“The side effects of the Pill: Why the Church has so much to say about Contraception,” Homiletic
and Pastoral Review, accepted for 2012.
The Sacrament
of Marriage and Marital Spirituality, Maryvale Institute Course Reader, 2011.
PUBLIC LECTURES
“Theology of the Body: an
answer to questions of our age,” and “Christ appeals
to the human heart.” Second International Symposium on the Theology of the Body, Maynooth, Ireland, June 2009.
“Marriage and Family in Sacred
Scripture.” John Paul II Society, St. Patrick’s Irish National Seminary, Maynooth, Ireland, February, 2011.
“Clarifying Key Concepts in
the Theology of the Body.” Third International
Symposium on the Theology of the Body, London, June 2011.
Personal Information
Nationality: British
Marital Status:
Married with six children
Other related information
Languages: French,
Latin, Biblical Greek.
My wife and I are responsible
for four “Teams
of Our Lady” (Equipe
de Notre Dame) in Austria.
I enjoy playing football (soccer),
and as a family we enjoy mountain walking and skiing (we live
in the mountains!).
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