Florence Caffrey Bourg (1988, summa cum laude) had several of her past publications featured in a 2013 thematic retrospective called, “Family Ethics: Beyond Sex and Controversy.” Collections of this kind, which review significant publications on a certain theme, are an annual feature of the journal Theological Studies and appear in a section entitled, “Notes on Moral Theology.” The work is found in Theological Studies, Volume 74, Number 1, March 2013, pp 138-161.

Bourg’s featured writings included:

--“The Domestic Church Formed by Baptism and Marriage is Not Based on a Romantic Model of Family,” reprinted in Charles Curran & Julie Hanlon Rubio, eds., Marriage: Readings in Moral Theology, Series #15. Paulist Press, 2008.  Reprinted from Bourg’s Where Two or Three are Gathered, Christian Families as Domestic Churches, pp. 69-80, 87-96. University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.

--“Spirituality and the Family Life Cycle,” in Timothy Muldoon and Cynthia Dobrzynski, eds., Love One Another: Catholic Reflections on How to Sustain Marriages Today. Boston College Church in the 21st Century Series. Crossroad, 2010.

--“Multi-Dimensional Marriage Vocations and Responsible Parenthood,” in David Cloutier, ed., Leaving and Coming Home. Cascade Books/Wipf and Stock, 2010.

This is the second time Bourg has been featured in Theological Studies.  Her work also appeared in a “Notes on Moral Theology” retrospective in 2003. She is the Chair of the Religion department at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, as well as an adjunct faculty member for Loyola Institute for Ministry.