Rev Michael Shortall, MA, STD

Contract Lecturer in Moral Theology

Tel: +353 (0)1 708 6165
E-mail: Michael.Shortall@may.ie

Office Location: Room 6, Dunboyne House

Office Hours:
Mondays, 2pm – 4pm

Biography:
Priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin, ordained in 1998. Undergraduate studies in UCD (BA) and Clonliffe College (BD); graduate studies at UCD (MA Philosophy) and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (STD). Curate at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Ballyfermot (1998-2000); Curate at the Parish of Saggart, Rathcoole and Brittas (2006–present)

Research Interests:

• Caritas in Veritate
• Human Rights
• Bioethics
• Pastoral Ethics
  
  

Select Publications:

• Human Rights and Moral Reasoning. A comparative investigation by way of three theorists and their respective traditions of enquiry: John Finnis, Ronald Dworkin and Jürgen Habermas. Rome: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2009.

Current Research:

• Caritas in Veritate and the current economic crisis
• Caritas in Veritate in dialogue with political theory
• Frameworks of moral reasoning around human rights

Courses

• Bioethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition MR221/MR222
  
• Human Rights in Moral Reasoning MR323
• Ethics and Communications PG 418
• Natural Law: Contemporary Conversations PG403
  
• Moral Guidance in Pastoral Ministry MR324