Charles C. Camosy, Author at Crux

Charles C. Camosy

CRUX_CONTRIBUTOR

Charlie Camosy is Associate Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University, where he has taught since finishing his PhD in theology at Notre Dame in 2008.

Among other places, his published articles have appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, the Journal of the Catholic Health Association, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News and America magazine. He is the author of four books. Too Expensive to Treat? (Eerdmans) was a 2011 award-winner with the Catholic Media Association, Peter Singer and Christian Ethics (Cambridge) was named a 2012 “best book” with ABC Religion and Ethics, and For Love of Animals (Franciscan) was featured in the “Beliefs” section of the New York Times. His most recent book, Beyond the Abortion Wars (Eerdmans), was published in Spring of 2015.

In addition to serving as an advisor for Faith Outreach office of the Humane Society of the United States, Camosy received the 2012-13 Robert Bryne award from the Fordham Respect Life Club, and was also selected for the international working group "Contending Modernities" which attempts to bring secular liberalism, Catholicism, and Islam into dialogue about bioethics. He is the founder of the Catholic Conversation Project, serves on the board of Democrats for Life, and advises the ethics committee of the Children's Hospital of New York.

Confused American jurisprudence on human and non-human life

Catholic moral theology considers any substance of a rational and relational nature to be a person. This includes embryos, fetuses, infants, the brain dead, comatose, and the severely mentally ill. It also includes angels and demons. Could it also include apes such as chimpanzees?

Is the pro-Life movement still welcome in the anti-war movement?

When anti-war organizations are excluding pro-life groups from their activities, it highlights the incoherence of the culture wars. What can we say about these anti-war leaders having abortion purity tests for their movements? It seems they have little or no sense of how intertwined the pro-life and anti-war movements have been and continue to be.

A Catholic Response to Climate Skeptics: Create a Culture of Encounter

Those of us who are worried about climate change should do a better job of genuinely encountering those who think differently. In engaging them we should listen first and answer their arguments seriously. Name-calling and label-slapping is not only antithetical to genuine encounter, it undermines our ability to be heard.

Trump’s rhetoric on Islam takes significant steps in a Catholic direction

After President Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, Charles C. Camosy writes that the presidential remarks are more in line with Catholic teaching, which utterly rejects the idea that Christians are somehow in a cultural conflict with Muslims, than the rhetoric he used during the campaign trail, where Trump consistently spoke about “radical Islamic terrorism.”

‘Consistent Life Ethic’ needed to change attitudes on abortion

In a cultural climate and society that so often dehumanizes fellow members of our human family in the name of “autonomy” or “the common good” or “justice,” we must be voices that rehumanize our fellow human beings and seek to restore to each and every human the respect, value, and protection that should be common sense. The Consistent Life Ethic is for everyone, because the rights, life, and dignity of each human being is our foundation.