The Bishops recently reissued their document Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship. In it, they teach a consistent moral framework which is both faithful and rational and which enables Catholics to assess political platforms and make good, moral political decisions. Using key biblical verses and the rational explanations that undergird the document’s teaching, Dr. Moore will explain the key teaching of Faithful Citizenship and discuss how that teaching can be represented or rejected in public policy.
Our Speaker
Matthew Moore
Matthew Moore, Ph. D., is tenured, assistant professor of English and Philosophy at Del Mar College. He has twenty years of college teaching experience and more than 30 years of parish ministry experience, including twelve years of teaching RCIA and one of living as a missionary in Mexico. He is a lay member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), for which he acts as regional lay formation servant in South Texas. He and his wife, Joanna, are happily married and the proud parents of five homeschool children. He has degrees in philosophy and theology from the University of Dallas and a doctorate in philosophy from the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of Saint Thomas, Houston. He has lectured at the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Saint John Henry Newman Society, the Semiotic Society of America, the South Central Renaissance Conference, the Coastal Bend Writing Project and Texas A & M University in Corpus Christi.