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Melanie Barrett, Ph.D., S.T.D.

Chairperson and Professor in the Department of Moral Theology. 

mbarrett@usml.edu

(847) 837-4523

B.A. (Political Science and International Studies), Northwestern University. M.A. (Divinity) and Ph.D. (Religious Ethics), University of Chicago Divinity School. S.T.L. (Dogmatic Theology), University of St. Mary of the Lake. S.T.D. (Moral Theology), University of Fribourg. Author of “Continuity, Pope Francis, and Amoris Laetitia,” in Vatican Insider. Author of “Doctrine and Praxis in Pope Francis’s Approach to Evangelization,” in Pope Francis and the Event of Encounter. Author of “Co-Creating With the Creator: A Virtue-Based Approach,” in Science, Faith, & Human Fertility: The Third Conference on Ethical Fertility Health Management. Author of two articles in Chicago Studies: “Ethics and the Need for God” (2018) and “Five Building Blocks for a Sound Moral Theology” (2012). Author of Love’s Beauty at the Heart of the Christian Moral Life: The Ethics of Catholic Theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Currently completing a second book on suffering and the moral life in the work of Thomas Aquinas. Member of editorial board, Chicago Studies. Member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Academy of Catholic Theology, the American Academy of Religion, and the Catholic Women’s Forum for the Ethics and Public Policy Center.