William May to be plenary speaker at 2012 UFL Conference

I am delighted to report that Dr. William E. May has agreed to be a plenary speaker at the 2012 University Faculty for Life Conference to be held June 1-2, 2012 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Mark you calendars to attend our annual meeting now.

Dr. May is emeritus Michael J. McGivney Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he taught the academic years from 1991 through 2008 after teaching for 20 years at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of more than a dozen books including Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life ( 2d ed., Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2008) and, with Ronald Lawler OFM Cap and Joseph Boyle, Catholic Sexual Ethics (rev. and enlarged ed. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 1998). He has also published more than 240 essays in scholarly journals. His personal autobiography is Standing with Peter: A Lay Moral Theologian’s Reflections on God’s Loving Providence (Bethune, SC: Requiem Press, 2006).

Professor May, at the appointment of Pope John Paul II, served on the International Theological Commission from 1986 through 1997. Pope John Paul also appointed him a “peritus” for the 1987 Synod of Bishops on the vocation and mission of the lay faithful in the Church and in the world. In September 2003 he was appointed a consultor to the Congregation for the Clergy. May has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences located in Arlington, VA and at the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College.

Professor May has received the Cardinal Wright Award from the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal from James Cardinal Hickey, the Paul Ramsey Award for Outstanding Contributions to Bioethics from the Center for Bioethics and Culture, and the St. Dominic Medal from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. The Culture of Life Foundation has named an annual lecture series “The William E. May Award for Promoting Ethics and the Human Person.”

Since 1958 he has been married to Patricia Keck May. They are the parents of seven children.

Teresa Collett

Teresa Stanton Collett is a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she teaches bioethics, property law, and constitutional law. A nationally prominent speaker and scholar, she is active in attempts to rebuild the Culture of Life and protect the institutions of marriage and family. She often represents groups of state legislators, the Catholic Medical Association, and the Christian Medical and Dental Association in appellate case related to medical-legal matters. She represented the governors of Minnesota and North Dakota before the U.S. Supreme Court as amici curiae regarding the effectiveness of those states’ parental involvement laws. She has served as special attorney general for Oklahoma and Kansas related to legislation designed to protect the well-being of minors and unborn children. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has testified before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittees on the Constitution, as well as numerous legislative committees in the states.