Fr. John D. Corbett, O.P.

Fr. Corbett grew up in Columbus, Ohio and came to know the Dominicans through family members in the Order, through St. Patrick's Parish, and through attending Providence College, from which he graduated in 1973 with a B.A. in Political Science. Fr. Corbett joined the Dominicans in the summer of 1974 and was ordained a priest on May 12th, 1980. He completed his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1981 and began to teach moral theology as well as the Development of Western Civilization at Providence College.  Three years later he began his doctoral studies under Servais Pinckaers, O.P. at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and was awarded his Ph.D. after completing his dissertation on the theology of virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Fr. Corbett was appointed to the Faculty of the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio in 1991, and spent the next seven years teaching various courses in moral theology, as well as offering retreats, spiritual direction, and personal formation for seminarians. Joining the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in the Fall of 1998, Fr. Corbett teaches in the area of fundamental moral theology and the theology of the virtues, covering material from the Prima Secundae and the Secundae Secundae in four sequential courses. He also offers seminars in Thomistic Action Theory, Contemporary Interpretations of Natural Law, as well as a seminar in the thought of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre. He is interested in developing courses on the Ethics of Homicide, as well as on the Developmnent of Casuistry in the Catholic Church. Recent publications include "Pinckaers et le nouveau catechisme"  in the volume Renouveler toutes choses en Christ   eds. Michael S. Sherwin OP and Craig Steven Titus published by Academic Press Fribourg 2009. "The Functions of Paraclesis" was published in The Thomist, 73, 1 January 2009. "The Gifts of the Spirit According to Thomas Aquinas" will appear in the Josephinum Journal of Theology  August 2011.