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.

Why can’t pro-Life Democrats stay out of the news?

Nearly 20 million Democrats identify as pro-life. Millions more identify as pro-choice but nevertheless favor restrictions (like a 20-week limit) that abortion rights activists find anathema. So why do pro-life Democrats have so little influence in the party?

We need to resist brave new world of ‘Gattaca’ before it’s too late

It became official this week: We can now edit the genetic material of embryos. It’s being hailed as a major breakthrough to fight disease, but as the movie “Gattaca” so brilliantly demonstrated two decades ago, there are numerous, profound ethical questions when such a practice is normalized. If we wait for our grandchildren to resolve them, it will be too late.

Changing the parish to help keep unity in a changing Church

Personal parishes sort and separate like-minded Catholics. There are now (by formal decree) personal parishes whose primary focus is social justice, the Traditional Latin Mass, charismatic Catholicism, Anglican Use, tourism, college ministry, and more.

Artificial intelligence ethics the same as other new technology

The greatest worry for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not that it will become sentient and then try to kill us, or raise questions of computers achieving personhood and challenging human uniqueness; but rather whether this very powerful technology will be used – by humans – for good or for evil.

Manichean-style hatred must be resisted on both left and right

A recent ‘La Civiltà Cattolica’ article denounced an ‘ecumenism of hate’ in the U.S. between fundamentalist Evangelicals and ‘Catholic Integralists,’ but Charles Camosy says that ironically, the article trafficked in the very dualistic thinking it denounced, and that ‘Manichean poison’ of either left or right damages the Body of Christ.