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Writings of Basil Cole, O.P. (As of July 13, 2008)

 

Books:

 

Christian Totality: Theology of Consecrated Life, Paul Conner, O.P. and Basil Cole, O.P., third impression, St. Paul Editions, Bombay, India 1992; revised 1997; and also published by Alba House, Staten Island, New York 1997; published in Polish as Plenia Chrzescijanstwa, Anna Maria Nowak and Danuta Dowjat (trs.), W Drodze, Poznan 1997. French translation by Wilfred-Marie Hueto, submitted to Desclee de Brouwer April 7, 2007.

 

The Moral and Psychological Effects of Music: A Theological Appraisal, Rome 1992;  Music and Morals: A Theological Appraisal Of The Moral And Psychological Effects Of Music, Alba House, Staten Island, NY 1993.

 

A New Catechism of the Consecrated Life: Help for Perplexed Postulants and Novices of the Third Millennium, Paul Conner, O.P., Revised impresssion, Asia Trading Corporation, Bangalore, India 1999.

 

Consecrated Life: Contributions of Vatican II, Dominic Hoffman, O.P. (+) with Basil Cole, O.P. (Ed) (Mumbai, India: St. Paul’s Publications, 2005); submitted to Our Sunday Visitor for possible publication, 2008.

 

The Hidden Enemies of the Priesthood: The Contribution of St. Thomas Aquinas, (Staten Island: Alba House, 2007).

 

Contributed:

 

The Way of The Lord Jesus: Christian Moral Principles, Vol. I, Germain Grisez with the help of Joseph Boyle, Jr., Basil Cole, O.P., John Finnis, John Geinzer, Jeannette Grisez, Robert S. Kennedy, Patrick Lee, William May and Russell Shaw, Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago 1983.

 

Aspetti particolari dell'obbedienza religiosa; Il patrocinio universale di San Giuseppe, PUST, Roma 1992, 269-283, 455-463, Compendio Di Teologia Spirituale: In Onore Di Jordan Aumann, O.P.  Also, an English version published as The Universal Patronage of St. Joseph, in Compendium of Spirituality, Volume 1, Compiled by E. De Cea, O.P., trans. and annotated by Jordan Aumann, O.P., Alba House, Staten Island, NY 1995.

 

The Way of the Lord Jesus, Living a Christian Life, Vol. II, Germain Grisez with the help of Joseph Boyle, Jeannette Grisez, Russell Shaw and Others, Franciscan Press, Quincy College, Quincy Ill 1993.

 

Louise de Marillac A Light in the Darkness, A woman of Yesteryear, A Saint and Model for Today, Katheryn LaFleur, S.P., New City Press, Hyde Park, New York 1996, Forward, pp. 5-7.

 

The Way of the Lord Jesus, Difficult Moral Problems, Vol. III, Germain Grisez with Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, Jeannette Grisez, Russell Shaw and Others, Franciscan Press, Quincy College, Quincy, Ill 1997.

 

Twentieth Century English Language Dominican Studies On St. Joseph in Dominicans On Saint Joseph: Devotion To Saint Joseph In The Order Of Preachers Through The Centuries, Timothy Sparks, O.P. and Basil Cole, O.P., River Forest, Ill, Dominican Friars 1997, pp. 209-218.

 

Angels And The World Of Spirits (Basil Cole, O.P. and Robert Christian,O.P.) in Angels From The Vatican: The Invisible Made Visible, Allen Duston, O.P. and Arnold Nesselrath, Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia 1998, pp. 34-43.

 

Reply to Fr, Ashley, William May, Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., Basil Cole, O.P. in The National Bioethics Quarterly, Spring 2001, 9-11.

 

Spirituality: Does It Have A Place In The Seminary (Washington DC: Washington Theological Consortium 2001), response of Basil Cole, O.P., 19-21.

 

Response to Robert R. Reilly,in The Catholic Imaginagtion: Proceedings for the 24th Annual Convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Keneth D. Whitehead (ed.), (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2003) 128-133.

 

Mary’s Virginity, Theology of the Body and St. Thomas Aquinas, in  The Virgin Mary and Theology of the Body, Donald Calloway, MIC (ed) (Stockbridge, MA: Marian Press, 2005), pp.65-90.

 

Catholic Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Teaching of the Church, Joseph Varacalli, Stephen Krason, Richard Myers, Michael Coulter (eds.) (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007) :   Entries: Mysticism, Social Teaching of the Church, Chastity, Avarice, Germain Grisez, Stewardship, Profit with Allen Moran, OP.

 

Colloquy: National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter issue, 2007.

 

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, David Fergusson, Karen Kilby, Jan McFarland, Iain Torrance (eds.), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008), entry: Sin, seven Deadly.

 

Aquinas on Progress and Regress in The Spiritual Life.”

in Ressourcement Thomism: Essays, Matthew Levering (ed.) (To be published) (Washington DC: CUA Press, 2008),

 

Articles:

 

Must we have Altar Boys? in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, April 1978, 23-26.

 

The Parish Council: Conceiving, Creating and Sustaining in The Priest, November 1978, 30-33.

 

Pastoral Reflections On Rock Music in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, April 1979, 24-29.

 

Eve and The Priest in The Priest, October 1979, 21-24.

 

Whatever Became of Indulgences in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 1980, 60-68.

 

Mary and Joseph: Their Love For Each Other in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, October 1981, 9-17.

 

More Pastoral Reflections On Humanae Vitae in The Priest, January 1982, 28-32.

 

Divorced Children (?): What Are We Doing To Help Them? in The Priest, November 1982, 3-4.

 

Is Confession of Devotion Passé? in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, February 1983, 14-20.

 

Is Limbo Still in Limbo? in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, March 1985, 56-64.

 

Preaching The Mystery of The Trinity in The Priest, July/August 1986, 38-42.

 

The Apostolate of The Laity: Wherefrom? Whereto? in The Priest, February 1987, 37-45.

 

Reflexions pour une spiritualité masculine Traduit par Guy Beduelle, O.P., Sources (Fribourg), XII Mars-Avril 1987, 49-55.

 

Heaven: Boring, Confusing or What?,in Faith And Reason  Christendom College, Vol. XIV, no. 2, Summer 1988, 117-132.

 

St. Joseph and Maturing in the Faith in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, March 1989, 20-25.

 

Spiritual Direction For The Artist in Pastoral Life, July/August 1989, 22-29.

 

Reflections on Fatherhood and Priesthood in The Priest, December 1989, 32-36.

 

A Note on Mulieris Dignitatem  in Angelicum, Vol. 67., 1990 Fasc. 1, 121-128.

 

Some Practical Lessons From Historical Spirituality  in Faith and Reason, Christendom Press, Vol. XVI, no. 2, Summer 1990, 131-140.

 

The Homily: A Priestly Act of Worship in The Priest (co-authored by Joseph Fox, O.P.), October 1990, 32-42.

 

An Introduction to Basic Goods in The Writings of Germain Grisez in Angelicum, Vol. 70, 1993, Fasc.1, 39-65.

 

Humanae Vitae and Some Principles for Re-evangelization in Faith and Reason, Vol. 70, no.2, Spring 1993, 95-107.

 

Pastores Dabo Vobis and Priestly Formation (part I), in The Priest (co-authored by Michael Carey, O.P.), July 1993, 10-18; The Dominican constitutions as a model for other clerical institutes (part II), in The Priest, August 1993, 33-42.

 

The Peculiar Authority of The Master of Students, in Ashram, September 1993, 122-128.

 

`O Priest, Who Are You?' (part I), in The Priest, August 1994, 10-16; A Model for All Priests (part II), September 1994, 36-41.

 

The Master of Novices according to the Constitutions of the Dominican Order, in Ashram, March 1995, 3-13.

 

Spiritual Doctrine of the New Catechism, in The Priest, April 1995, 40-49.

 

Music and Spirituality in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 1995, 6-10.

 

General Absolution, General Confusion in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, July 1995, 46-50.

 

Teaching Justice and Chastity in The Priest September 1995, 10-14.

 

Infallibility: Breadth and Depth, A Possible Explanation in Angelicum, Vol. 72, 1995, Fasc. 4, 489-517.

 

New Sins Against Faith in Angelicum Vol. 73, 1996, Fasc. 1, 3-20.

 

The Faith Mystery of the Permanent Deacon in The Priest, March 1996, 10-15.

 

Consecrated Obedience and Spirituality in Angelicum, Vol. 73, 1996 Fasc. 4, 569-587.

 

Liturgy and the Musician: Collision or Synthesis in Homiletic and Pastoral Review 1997, June 1997, 6-13.

 

On Altar Servers and Serverettes in New Oxford Review, January. 1998, 18-20.

 

Original sin in moral decision making in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, July 1998, 48-55.

 

Infallibility  Revisited  in  The Priest, OCtober, 9-20.

 

The Hidden Enemy in The Priest, Feb. 1999, 34-40.

 

Liturgy and Reconciling the Generations in Journal of Future Generations (Rabat, Malta), March 1999, 29-40.

 

The poor and rich souls of Purgatory in HPR, July 1999, 29-32, 45-46.

 

Cardinal Mahoney’s: Gather Faithfully Together in HPR, Aug.-Sept. 1999, 14-19.

 

Humility: fulfilling or humiliating? in HPR, Dec. 1999, 54-60.

 

Indulgences and the Millennium in The Priest, January, 2000, 34-43.

 

Is there a spirituality of study? in HPR, March 2000, 23-28.

 

Angels, Devils and the Catechism in Faith and Reason (2001) Vol. XXVI, no. 4, 315-337.

 

The Desire for the episcopate and the sin of ambition according to St. Thomas in Angelicum, Vol. 76, 2001, Fasc. 1, 3-21.

 

Catholic Bioethics: Three Recent Studies, The Thomist, January, 2002, 132-147.

 

Trinity: A Necessity for Catechetics? in The Priest, May, 2002, 38-44.

 

Prospects for Xenotransplantation: A Brief Commentary in National Catholic Bioethical Quarterly, Autumn 2002, 399-405.

 

Pride The Other Hidden enemy of Priestly Life in St. Thomas Aquinas, in  The Priest, December, 2003, 36-41.

 

Reply to a Question on Excommunication of Public Officials Who Openly Support Abortion,

www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6196.

 

Why so long to make a decision? in HPR, December 2004, 62-66.

 

Psychological Slavery of Anger, in The Priest, August 2005,46-52.

 

Is the Moral Species of Craniotomy a Direct Killing or a Saving of Life in Nova et Vetera, Vol. 3, No.4 (2005): 689-702.

 

Spirituality of the arts with Dr. Gem Sullivan, in LOGOS, 9:3 (Summer 2006), 318-333.

 

The Immaculate Conception, St. Thomas and Bl. Pius IX, with Richard Belanger, OP, Nova et Vetera, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2006), 473-494.

 

Those Irrelevant Angels, The Priest, Dec. 2006, 36-44.

 

St. Joseph’s role in the spiritual life, in HPR, March 2007, 56-62.

 

An easy outline for the Preacher of Mary, in The Priest, March 2007,  44-47.

 

The Bishops and the Consecrated Life: A Necessary Link, in Nova et Vetera, Vol. 5, no. 3 (2007) 495-510.

 

“How is the Life of Celibate Priesthood Undermined?” Vicars for Clergy Newsletter, no.31, Feb. 2008, St. Luke Institute and USCCB.

Is Limbo Ready to be abolished: Limbo Revisited,in Nova et Vetera, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2008) 403-418.

 

Medical Moral Theology for the Parish Priest: A Short Primer,Part I, in The Priest, June 2008, 20-26; Part II, July, 21-24.

 

The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, Fergusson, Kilby, McFarland, Torrance (eds.), (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008), entry: Seven Deadly Sins.

 

    Book Reviews

 

Faith and Violence in Christian Teaching and Practice, Thomas Merton, Notre Dame Press, University of Notre Dame Press, 1968 in The Thomist, July 1968.

 

Women In The Priesthood, Manfred Hauke, Ignatius Press, San Francisco 1988, in Angelicum Vol. 66, 1989, Fasc. 2, 352-355.

 

Nuclear Deterrence, John Finnis, Joseph Boyle, Jr., and Germain Grisez, Oxford University Press,  Oxford 1988, in Angelicum, Vol. 65, 1988, Fasc. 2, 303-307.

 

The Three Greatest Prayers, St. Thomas Aquinas, Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, New Hampshire 1990, in L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, July 15, 1991, 8.

 

Letters of Bede Garrett, in Memoire Dominicaine, Autumn, 1994, 293-295.

 

A retrospective and prospective review of The Way of the Lord Jesus by Germain Grisez in Angelicum, Vol. 72, 1995. Fasc. 2,

 

The Way of the Lord Jesus, Difficult Moral Problems, Vol. III, Germain Grisez with Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, Jeannette Grisez, Russell Shaw and Others, Franciscan Press, Quincy College, Quincy, Ill 1997, in Angelicum, Vol. 75, 1998, Fasc. 2, 289-291.

 

A Good News Spirituality: Finding Holiness In Parish Life, John Burke, O.P. New York/Mahwah NJ, USA: Paulist Press, 2000, in L’Osservatore Romano, English edition, May 2, 2001, 11.

 

The Battle For The Catholic Mind edited by William E May and Kenneth D. Whitehead St. Augustine’s Press, South Bend IN., 2002 in New Blackfriars, Feburary 2002, 103-104.

 

An Introduction to Moral Theology. 2nd ed., William E. May (Hunington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2003) in the National Catholic Bioethical Quarterly, Winter 2003, 859-860.

 

I Call You Friends, Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), in The Thomist, April 2004, 333-335.

 

Healthcare Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis, Benedict Ashley, O.P., Jean DeBlois, C.S.J., Kevin D. O’Rourke, O.P.,5th Edition, (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006), 161-166.

 

Human Embryo Adoption: Bioetechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life, Edited by Thomas V. Berg, L.C., and Edward Furton, Forward by Robet P. George, (Philadelphia: The National Catholic Bioethics Center; Thornwood, N.Y.: The Westchester Institute for EThics & The Human person, 2006), December, 2007, The Thomist, 657-660. 

         Journalism

 

The Tidings, sometime in 1976 summer, about Dominican vocations

 

Light and Life, The Rosary Confraternity in Portland, Oregon:

 

            Faith, Jul.-Aug., 1981.

            Risen Love, Complement To Victim Love, Mar.-Apr., 1982

            Trinitarian Love, May-June, 1982

            Play and Fun, Jul.-Aug., 1982

            The Purgatory of Love, Sept.-Oct., 1982

            Did the Birth of Christ Make A Difference, Nov.-Dec. 1982

            Lord, Have Mercy, Jan.-Feb., 1983

            The Resurrection of Christ and the Devil, Mar.-Apr., 1983

            Fatima, May-June, 1983

            Summertime Musings, Jul.-Aug., 1983

            Understanding the Rosary, Sept.-Oct., 1983

            St. Joseph, The Greatest Saint After Mary, Nov.-Dec, 1983

            Towards A Spirituality of Peace, Jan.-Feb., 1984

            New Sins Against Faith, Nov.-Dec., 1993

            Chastity and the Spiritual Life: Some Strategies, Nov.-Dec.,    1994

 

Articles published in the National Catholic Register (1995-1996)

 

"Ut Unum Sint at Home" 07/30/95

"What's in a Name? Holiness" 08/20/95

"Angels: Unseen Helpers" 10/01/95

"Purgatory: Stuck, but not forever" 11/05/95

“The Angelic Doctor Was in Love With the Truth"           02/25/96

"The Healing Process Needs Our Efforts, Too" 03/03

"Seeing Through The Appearance of Evil" 04/07

"The Blessed Trinity and Chastity" 06/02

"Sacred Heart, Sacred Love"  06/09

"A Declaration of Dependence"  06/30

"Mary's Triumph and Share in the Resurrection" 08/11

"Queenship of Mary" 08/25

"Grace-Filled Moments: The Hermit Encounters Loneliness"   09/01

"St. John Damascene: Holy Pictures to the Rescue" 12/1

"Venite Adoremus!  Venite Adoremus!" 12/22-28

 

Article in Our Sunday Visitor, October, 2007, 9-11: Angels

 

“How is the Life of Celibate Priesthood Undermined?” Vicars for Clergy Newsletter, no.31, Feb. 2008, St. Luke Institute and USCCB.
 
History

Curriculum Vitae of Basil Cole, OP

Academic education:

High School: St. Ignatius Preparatory, (San Francisco, CA) 1951-55

College: University of San Francisco, (San Francisco, CA) B.S. (English) 1955-59

St. Albert’s College (Oakland CA) 1961-64 B.Ph (philosophy)

Le Saulchoir (Etiolles, France) S.T.Lect. & Lic, 1967-1968

Universita San Tommaso in Urbe, (Rome, Italy) S.T.D., 1991

Academic work as member of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus:

Invited professor:

Pilarica College (Thousand Oaks, CA): logic and Christology 1969-70

St. Albert’s College (Oakland, CA), Theological Virtues, 1970-71

Mission San Jose College (Mission San Jose, CA), Trinity and Christology 1975-76, Universitá San Tommaso in Urbe (Rome, Italy): Preaching, Pastoral Theology, Spiritual Theology, History of Spiritual Theology, Justice and allied virtues, Fundamental Moral Theology, Lay Spirituality, Spirituality of Dom Marion, Josephology, (1985, 1987-1997).

Assistant and associate professor for the Province of St. Joseph:

Dominican House of Studies (Washington DC): Roots of Social Justice, Theology of Sexuality, Medical Moral Theology, Thomistic Spiritual Theology, Theology of Consecrated Life, Theology of Mary and Joseph, Seminar on Difficult Moral Questions, Angels and Devils (1998-2006)

Internal Ministry within the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus:

Prior: St. Dominic’s Priory of San Francisco, 1970-75

St. Peter Martyr Priory of Los Angeles, Daniel Murphy High School (1975-1978)

Member of the Provincial Council (1973-1981)

External Ministry of Holy Name Province:

Member of the Dominican Preaching (1975-1998)

Auxiliary member of Dominican Preaching (2000-2002)

 Internal Ministry of St. Joseph’s Province:

Subprior: Immaculate Conception Priory of Washington D.C. (2002-)

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