Rev Kevin O'Gorman SMA, BA, HDip (Canon Law), STD

Lecturer in Moral Theology

Tel: +353 (0)1 708-3625

E-mail: Kevin.OGorman[at]spcm.ie

Office Location: 12 Dunboyne House

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11.00 am – 12.30 pm





Biography:

• Priest of the Society of African Missions
• Ordained 1983
• Undegraduate studies at Maynooth (BA and BD)
• Graduate studies in Rome at Gregorian (STL) and Alphonsianum (STD)
• Lecturer in philosophy and moral theology in diocesan seminaries in South Africa
• Lecturer in moral theology at Kimmage Mission Institute and Milltown Institute (Dublin)
• Lecturer in moral theology, Pontifical University at Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth

Research Interests:

• Fundamental Moral Theology
• Moral Theology and Canon Law
• Ethics and Culture
• Sport, Morality and Faith

Publications:

• Saving Sport, Dublin: Columba Press, 2010
• ‘Matthew’s Messianic Morality’, Doctrine & Life, 59(January 2009)
• In Joyful Hope’, Doctrine  & Life, 58(April 2008)
• ‘Sport and Morality’, Doctrine & Life, 58(January 2008)
• ‘From Principles to Disciples: the Moral theology of Timothy E. O’Connell’, in Joe Egan and Brendan McConvery, eds. Faithful Witness – Glimpses of the Kingdom, Dublin:KMI, 2005
• ‘A Global Ethic: An Imperative of Mission Today’, in Joe Egan and Thomas R. Whelan, eds. City Limits – Mission Issues in Postmodern Times, Dublin:KMI, 2004
• ‘Missio Vitae – New Frontier’, Doctrine & Life, 54(February 2004)
• ‘Against Our Ruin’, The Furrow, 54(January 2003)
• ‘The Morality of Hunger-Striking’, Series of articles in The Irish Theological Quarterly, 1993-1994
  

Courses:

Undergraduate:

• Introduction to Moral Theology – MR121
• The Development of Marital and Sexual Ethics – MR223
• Further Readings in Marital & Sexual ethics – MR224

Postgraduate:

• Moral Theology & Spirituality – PG410
• Christian Morality – Distinctive or Specific? – PG405