Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters
John A. McHugh and Charles J. Callan
Drawn from the authors' own words; every quotation links to its place.
O.P. · Thomist (Dominican) · 1880–1950; 1877–1962
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His Moral System
Any of the tolerated systems, according to conviction
- “one is free to act according to the principles of Probabiliorism, Equiprobabilism, Probabilism or Compensationism, according to conviction” — McHugh-Callan, n. 740
As others report it
- “If we judge Equiprobabilism by its arguments, we find it unconvincing” — McHugh-Callan, n. 699
Life
John A. McHugh
Born 2 November 1880, Louisville, Kentucky; died 9 April 1950, White Plains, New York. [Dominicana, obituary, vol. 35, no. 2 (Wayback Machine copy)]
- Received the Dominican habit 10 September 1897; ordained in the cathedral at Columbus, Ohio, 29 June 1905, by Bishop James J. Hartley; Lector of Sacred Theology at the Minerva in Rome, 1907; taught theology at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, until 1915; Master of Sacred Theology 1931. [Dominicana, obituary, vol. 35, no. 2 (Wayback Machine copy)]
- From 1915 taught philosophy and theology at the Maryknoll seminary; from 1916 joint editor-in-chief, with Fr. Callan, of the Homiletic and Pastoral Review; president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1938–1939. [Dominicana, obituary, vol. 35, no. 2 (Wayback Machine copy)]
Sources: Dominicana (journal of the Dominican House of Studies, Washington), obituaries. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
Charles J. Callan
Born 5 December 1877, Lockport, N.Y. (New Catholic Encyclopedia; the Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers gives 1878, "near Lockport"); died 26 February 1962, Milford, Connecticut. [New Catholic Encyclopedia; The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, Callan, Charles J.]
- Ordained 29 June 1905 by Bishop Hartley of Columbus (Dominicana), at Somerset, Ohio (NCE); then studied at Fribourg; Master of Sacred Theology 1931. [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Dominicana, obituary, vol. 47, no. 2 (Wayback Machine copy)]
- Taught at the Maryknoll seminary from 1915; with Fr. McHugh, his lifelong companion from the novitiate, founded the Homiletic and Pastoral Review and edited it from 1916. [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Dominicana, obituary, vol. 47, no. 2 (Wayback Machine copy)]
- In 1940 named consultor of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, the first native-born American so named (Dominicana). [New Catholic Encyclopedia; Dominicana, obituary, vol. 47, no. 2 (Wayback Machine copy)]
Sources: New Catholic Encyclopedia (2nd ed., 2003), as published on Encyclopedia.com; Dominicana (journal of the Dominican House of Studies, Washington), obituaries. Each fact names where it was read; the links go to the page or entry itself.
No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).