Our BFCGI speaker Thursday September 16 will be Charles Comosy (Fordham University) author of Resisting Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People, a book in which he articulates a new moral vision in which a culture of encounter and hospitality replaces a consumer culture in which the most vulnerable get used and discarded as so much trash. His talk will take place at 6pm in the Union Pacific Room at the Harper Center (room 2057/58). All students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend.

Dr. Camosy is a frequent expert guest on various TV programs, and has published articles in the USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Commonweal, and America magazine, American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of the Catholic Health Association. He is the author of five 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 New York Times. Beyond the Abortion Wars (Eerdmans), was a 2015 award-winner also with the Catholic Media Association. His most recent book, Resisting Throwaway Culture (New City), was published in May of 2019 and won first place from the Catholic Publishers Association as “Resource of the Year.” In addition to advising the Faith Outreach office of the Humane Society of the United States and the pro-life commission of the Archdiocese of New York, Camosy received the Robert Bryne award from the Fordham Respect Life Club and received the 2018 St. Jerome Award for scholarly excellence from the Catholic Library Association. He has four children, three of whom he and his wife Paulyn adopted from a Filipino orphanage in June of 2016.