Category: Marital Ethics

By David Fleischacker   In part two of this series, I mentioned that the “repetitive” element of the physical, vital, and sensitive spontaneity is differentiated into schemes of recurrence based […]...

By David Fleischacker Dedicated to Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB on his birthday Lonergan does discuss statistics within this 1943 essay, however, it is clear that he has not developed the […]...

by David Fleischacker This is the second installment on a series that will give focused attention to statements and sections of Lonergan’s 1943 essay, Finality, Love, and Marriage. The focus […]...

by David Fleischacker I have been re-reading “Finality, Love, and Marriage” written by Lonergan in 1943.[1] It is quite an interesting piece once you explore the details and interconnections of […]...

  by Dr. David Fleischacker As with men, the organic and psychic procreative life of women possesses an intelligibility that begins with the finality to conceive life.  And as in men, […]...

by Dr. David Fleischacker   As with men, the organic and psychic life of women possesses an intelligibility that begins with the finality to conceive life.  And as in men, […]...

by Dr. David Fleischacker Some say men all start with a female body, however this is only partially true as far as I can tell. This view is based primarily […]...

by Dr. David Fleischacker The oocyte (the unfertilized egg) has an interesting formation. Before a little girl is born, all of the oocytes that she will ever possess have already […]...

by David Fleischacker This last week, I gave a little talk on the role of the Church in the conversion of St. Augustine, and in preparation for this, I read […]...

By Dr. David Fleischacker Sometimes, when one begins a journey, one never knows how it will entirely end. In part, this is true for what will be following in the […]...