Faculty Profiles

Grasso, K. L., & Varacalli, T. F. X. (2023). “The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Public Order.” Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press.

Grasso, K. L. (2023). “Two Rival Versions of Religious Freedom.” In The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Public Order. Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press., 68–98.

Grasso, K. L. (2020). “The Real Western War of Religion.” Catholic Social Science Review, Vol. 25, 17–30.

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Grasso, K. L. (2019). The New Politics of the American Public Orthodoxy. In B. C. S. Watson (Ed.), Diversity, Conformity and Conscience in America (pp. 11–32). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

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Grasso, K. L. (Ed.). (2018). Whose Religious Liberty? Which Intellectual Horizon? Catholic Social Science Review, 23, 33–45.

Grasso, K. L. (Ed.). (2018). Religious Freedom and the Future of the Catholic Church in the American Public Order, 23, 3–54.

Grasso, K. L. (Ed.). (2018).

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Grasso, K. L. (n.d.). The New Politics of the American Public Orthodoxy. In B. C. S. Watson (Ed.), Diversity, Conformity and Conscience in America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (2017). Catholics and the New American Public Order. Catholic Social Science Review, 22(2017), 137–144.

Grasso, K. L. (2016). “Religious Freedom in the Dock,” a review of The Twilight of the American Enlightenment by George Marsden (New York: Basic Books, 2014) and Steven D. Smith, The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Modern Age 58 no. 1 (Winter 2016). (pp. 83–99).

Grasso, K. L. (2016). Review Essay: Religious Freedom in the Dock. Modern Age. Modern Age.

Grasso, K. L. (2016). Catholic Ties to the American Public Order Continue to Unravel. Crisis Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/precarious-catholic-relationship-american-public-order

Grasso, K. L. (2015). From Articles of Peace to Kulturkampf: The HHS Mandate and the Problem of Religious Pluralism in America. In S. M. Krason (Ed.), The Crisis of Religious Liberty (pp. 125–144). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (2014). Catholicism and ‘the Great Political Problem of Our Time’: Tocqueville, Vatican II, and the Problem of Limited Government in the Age of Democracy. Catholic Social Science Review, 19, 7–19.

Grasso, K. L. (2013). The ‘Ambiguity of Modern Times. In M. Guerra (Ed.), Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome (pp. 177–205). South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press.

Grasso, K. L. (2013). American Kulturkampf:  The HHS Mandate and the Crisis of American Religious Pluralism. Modern Age, 55, 5–17.

Grasso, K. L., & Rodriguez Castillo, C. (2012). Theology and Public Philosophy:  Four Conversations. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Grasso, K. L. (2012). Political Pluralism and Catholic Social Doctrine. In J. Koterski & R. Fastiggi (Eds.), Pluralism and Catholic Social Doctrine.”  In The New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013 (Vol. 4 Volumes, pp. 1238–1240). Detroit: Gale.

Grasso, K. L. (2012). Theology and the American Civil Conversation. In K. L. Grasso & C. Castillo (Eds.), Theology and Public Philosophy (pp. ix–xxvii). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Grasso, K. L. (2012). Ockham’s Children: Nomolatry, Nominalism and Contemporary Moral Culture. In K. L. Grasso & C. Castillo (Eds.), Theology and Public Philosophy (pp. 21–29). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Grasso, K. L. (2012). Taking Religion Seriously: Reflections on Tocqueville, Catholicism and Democratic Modernity. Catholic Social Science Review, XXVII, 47–54.

Grasso, K. L. (2012). The Freedom of the Church and the Taming of Leviathan: The Christian Revolution, Dignitatis Humanae, and Western Liberty. Catholic Social Science Review, XXVII, 221–240.

Grasso, K. L. (2011). Getting Murray Right. Catholic Social Science Review, XVI, 85–94.

Grasso, K. L. (2011). Introduction:  John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths at 50:  A Symposium. Catholic Social Science Review, XVI, 67–72.

Grasso, K. L. (2011). Chrzescijianstwo Oswiecenie, Liberalizm i Poszukiwanie Wolnosci. Rzeczy Wspoine, 7, 104–125.

Grasso, K. L. (2011). John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths at 50:  A Symposium. The Catholic Social Science Review (Vol. XVI, pp. 67–132).

Grasso, K. L. (2010). John Paul II on Modernity, Freedom and the Metaphysics of the Person. Catholic Social Science Review, XV, 15–34.

Grasso, K. L., & Frohnen, B. P. (2009). Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Grasso, K. L., & Frohnen, B. P. (2009). Defending the Republic:  Constitutional Morality in a Time of Crisis. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Frohnen, B., & Grasso, K. L. (2009). Rights in a Multicultural Age. In B. Frohnen & K. L. Grasso (Eds.), Rethinking Rights:  Historical, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 1–33). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Grasso, K. L. (2009). Reintegrating Rights:  Catholicism, Social Ontology and Contemporary Rights Discourse. In B. Frohnen & K. L. Grasso (Eds.), Rethinking Rights:  Historical, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 177–211). Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.

Frohnen, B., & Grasso, K. L. (2009). Defending the Republic:  Constitutional Morality in a Time of Crisis. (B. Frohnen & K. L. Grasso, Eds.) (pp. vii–xxx). Wilmington:  DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Grasso, K. L. (2009). Religion and the American Experiment:  From Articles of Peace to Culture Wars. In B. Frohnen & K. L. Grasso (Eds.), Defending the Republic:  Constitutional Morality in a Time of Crisis (pp. vii–xxx). Wilmington:  DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Grasso, K. L. (2009). Neither Ancient Nor Modern. Catholic Social Science Review, XIV, 43–52.

Grasso, K. L. (2009). The Ancients/Moderns Distinction:  Catholic Perspectives. The Catholic Social Science Review (Vol. XIV, pp. 9–84).

Grasso, K. L. (2008). Beyond the Polis and the Enlightenment. In A. Skoble (Ed.), A Norms of Liberty Reader (pp. 59–84). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Grasso, K. L. (2008). The Subsidiary State:  Society, the State and the Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought. In J. Heffernan Schindler (Ed.), Christianity and Civil Society:  Catholic and Neo-Calvinist Perspectives (pp. 31–66). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Grasso, K. L. (2007). John Courtney Murray. In M. L. Coulter, S. M. Krason, R. S. Myers, & J. A. Varacalli (Eds.), Murray.” In Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought (pp. 732–735). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Grasso, K. L. (2007). 'Building Better Than They Knew’:  John Courtney Murray on Catholicism, Modernity and the American Proposition. Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 4, 163–198.

Grasso, K. L., & Hunt, R. P. (2006). Catholicism and Religious Freedom:  Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty. Lanham, MD: Sheed and Ward.

Grasso, K. L., & Hunt, R. P. (2006). Introduction. In K. L. Grasso & R. P. Hunt (Eds.), Catholicism and Religious Freedom:  Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (pp. ix–xxxiv). Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward.

Grasso, K. L., & Hunt, R. P. (2006). An Unfinished Argument:  Dignitatis Humanae and the Catholic Theory of the State. In K. L. Grasso & R. P. Hunt (Eds.), Catholicism and Religious Freedom:  Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty (pp. 161–193). Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward.

Grasso, K. L. (2006). Christianity, Enlightenment Liberalism and the Modern Quest for Freedom. Modern Age, 48, 301–311.

Grasso, K. L. (2005). Dignitatis Humanae and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution. The Review of Faith and International Affairs, 3, 3–10.

Grasso, K. L. (2005). The Rights of Monads or of Intrinsically Social Beings?  Social Ontology and Rights Talk. Ave Maria Law Review, 3, 233–258.

Grasso, K. L. (2004). Democracy, Modernity and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution. The Catholic Social Science Review, IX, 37–46.

Grasso, K. L. (2004). John Courtney Murray, the “Juridical State” and the Catholic Theory of Religious Liberty. The Political Science Reviewer, XXXIII, 1–61.

Grasso, K. L. (2004). [Review of John Paul II and the Legacy of Dignitatis Humanae, by H. Rico]. The Review of Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Grasso, K. L., & Rodriguez Castillo, C. (2004). Robert Kraynak’s Christian Faith and Modern Democracy:  A Symposium. The Catholic Social Science Review (Vol. IX, pp. 9–84).

Grasso, K. L. (2003). Saving Modernity From Itself:  John Paul II on Human Dignity and ‘the Whole Truth About Man. In R. Kraynak & G. Tinder (Eds.), In Defense of Human Dignity (pp. 207–236). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Grasso, K. L., & Hunt, R. P. (2002). A Moral Enterprise:  Politics, Reason and the Human Good. Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Hunt, R. P., & Grasso, K. L. (2002). The Achievement of Francis Canavan. In K. L. Grasso & R. P. Hunt (Eds.), A Moral Enterprise:  Politics, Reason and the Human Good (pp. xi–xxii). Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Grasso, K. L. (2002). The Triumph of Will:  Rights Mania, the Culture of Death and the Crisis of Enlightenment Liberalism. In K. L. Grasso & R. P. Hunt (Eds.), A Moral Enterprise: Politics, Reason and the Human Good (pp. 221–243). Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Grasso, K. L. (2001). [Review of Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism, by P. Berkowitz]. The American Political Science Review. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Grasso, K. L. (2000). John Paul on Modernity, the Moral Structure of Freedom and the Future of the Free Society. The Catholic Social Science Review, V, 23–35.

Grasso, K. L. (2000). Liberalism, Civil Society and the Promise of Compassionate Conservatism. Intercollegiate Review, 36, 24–33.

Grasso, K. L. (2000). [Review of Christianity and Liberal Society, by R. Song]. The Review of Politics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Grasso, K. L., & Rodriguez Castillo, C. (2000). The Social Thought of John Paul II:  A Symposium. The Catholic Social Science Review (Vol. V, pp. 9–53).

Grasso, K. L. (1999). The Decline of Liberalism and the Rise of ‘the Victorious Lawyer.’ South Texas Law Review, 40, 233–251.

Grasso, K. L., & Rodriguez Castillo, C. (1998). Liberty Under Law:  American Constitutionalism, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Grasso, K. L. (1998). Contemporary Communitarianism, the Lure of the State, and the Modern Crisis of Community. In G. W. Carey & B. Frohnen (Eds.), Community and Tradition:  Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience (pp. 17–38). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1998). Democracy, Yes; Liberalism, No:  A Response to Mark Lowery. The Catholic Social Science Review, III, 69–78.

Pavlischek, K., & Grasso, K. L. (1998). Evangelicals and Catholics Thinking Through Politics Together. Public Justice Report, 36, 7.

Grasso, K. L., & Rodriguez Castillo, C. (1997). Liberty Under Law:  American Constitutionalism, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Grasso, K. L. (1997). Introduction:  The Achievement of Francis Canavan:  A Symposium. The Catholic Social Science Review, II, 7–11.

Grasso, K. L. (1997). A Distinctive Idea of Freedom. The Catholic Social Science Review, II, 45–53.

Grasso, K. L. (1997). [Review of Raised in Captivity:  Why Does America Fail Its Children?, by L. Hodgson]. Of the People. Minneapolis: Greywolf Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1997). The Achievement of Francis Canavan:  A Symposium. The Catholic Social Science Review (Vol. II, pp. 7–53).

Grasso, K. L. (1997, February). [Review of The Pluralist Game:  Religion, Pluralism and the Moral Conscience, by F. Canavan]. Crisis. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1996). Man, Society and the State:  A Catholic Perspective. In M. Cromartie (Ed.), Caesar’s Coin Revisited:  Christians and the Limits of Government (pp. 79–114). Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Pavlischek, K., & Grasso, K. L. (1996). Are Catholics a Force for Good in American Electoral Politics? Christians in Political Science Newsletter, 36, 1–3.

Grasso, K. L. (1996). [Review of The Pluralist Game:  Religion, Pluralism and the Moral Conscience, by F. Canavan]. Catholic Social Science Review. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1996, November). [Review of Saving the Constitution from the Courts, by W. P. Gangi]. First Things. Norman: University of Oklahoma.

Grasso, K. L. (1996, October). [Review of Exploration in Metaphysics:  Being-God-Person, by W. Norris Clarke]. First Things. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Grasso, K. L., Bradley, G. V., & Hunt, R. P. (1995). Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism:  The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Grasso, K. L. (1995). Introduction:  Catholic Social Thought and the Quest for an American Public Philosophy. In Catholicism, Liberalism and Communitarianism:  The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy (pp. 1–14). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1995). Beyond Liberalism:  Human Dignity, the Free Society and the Second Vatican Council. In K. L. Grasso, G. V. Bradley, & R. P. Hunt (Eds.), Catholicism, Liberalism and Communitarianism:  The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy (pp. 29–58). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1995, April). [Review of Catholicism and Liberalism, by R. Bruce Douglass & D. Hollenbach]. First Things. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1994). The Federalist Versus the Procedural Republic. In P. A. Lawler & R. Schaefer (Eds.), The American Experiment:  The Theory and Practice of Liberty (pp. 93–106). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1994). [Review of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration, by K. Pavlischek]. The Journal of Law and Religion. Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1994). [Review of “The Constitution of the People”:  Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society, by R. E. Calvert & W. C. McWilliams]. The Review of Politics. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1994). [Review of The American Hour: A Time of Reckoning and the Once and Future Role of Faith, by O. Guinness]. Responsive Community. New York: Free Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1993). A Special Kind of Freedom. In G. Weigel & R. Royal (Eds.), Building the Free Society (pp. 107–130). Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Grasso, K. L. (1993). [Review of Liberalism and the Good, by R. Bruce Douglass, G. M. Mara, & H. S. Richardson]. International Philosophical Quarterly. New York: Routledge.

Grasso, K. L., & Hunt, R. P. (1992). John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Grasso, K. L. (1992). We Held These Truths: The Transformation of American Pluralism and the Future of American Democracy. In R. P. Hunt & K. L. Grasso (Eds.), John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation (pp. 90–116). Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Grasso, K. L. (1992). [Review of The Great Alternatives in Social Thought, by T. E. Cook]. Perspectives in Political Science. Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grasso, K. L. (1992). [Review of A Government of Laws: Political Theory. Religion and the American Founding, by E. Sandoz]. The Journal of Law and Religion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1991). Dignitatis Humanae. In G. Weigel & R. Royal (Eds.), A Century of Catholic Social Thought (pp. 95–113). Washington DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Grasso, K. L. (1991). Liberalism, Democratic Capitalism and the Catholic Human Rights Revolution. Faith & Reason, XVII, 413–425.

Grasso, K. L. (1991). [Review of The Search for an American Public Theology, by G. Weigel]. Thought. New York: Paulist Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1991). [Review of Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy, by R. W. McElroy]. Thought. New York: Paulist Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1991). [Review of The New Freedom: Individualism and Collectivism in American Life, by W. A. Donahue]. Crisis. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1991, December). [Review of Articles of Faith, Articles of Peace: The Religious Liberty Clauses and the American Public Philosophy, by J. Davison Hunter & O. Guinness]. Crisis. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

Grasso, K. L. (1989, December). [Review of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding, by C. R. Kesler]. Thought. New York: Free Press.

Grasso, K. L. (1987). The Moral Dimensions of Publius’ Statecraft. Law and Justice, XVII, 7–26.

Grasso, K. L. (1987). The Moral Dimensions of Publius’ Statecraft. Faith and Reason, XIII, 363–398.

Grasso, K. L. (1987). Pluralism, the Public Good, and the Problem of Self-Government in The Federalist. Interpretation, 15, 323–345.