Director of Lifelong Learning
Areas of Teaching and Research
Matthew Sherman teaches and researches in the areas of fundamental moral theology, bioethics, Catholic Social Teaching, Sexual Ethics, and Marriage and Family Life.
Biography
Dr. Sherman serves as the Director of Lifelong Learning and Educational Assurance. He previously served as an academic lead at both departmental and institutional levels; he has also worked in full-time professional ministry. He is a moral theologian whose research and publications include foci in the theology of marriage and family, Virgil Michel, sacraments and ethics, and historical morals. His teaching areas include fundamental moral theology, bioethics, Catholic Social Teaching, sexual ethics, and marriage. He has served as a convener for local and national conferences and has presented widely in parish, campus ministry, lay ministry, and diaconal workshops.
Select Publications
“Catholic Family Teaching before 1880,” in Modern Catholic Family Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations, ed. Jacob M. Kohlhaas and Mary M. Doyle Roche (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2024).
Living Liturgy: Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities (2025, Cycle C), with Katharine E. Harmon (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2024).
Loose Leaf Lectionary (February 2024) (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2023).
“Family Ethics,” in Reimagining the Moral Life: Perspectives on Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics, ed. Ki Joo Choi, Sarah Moses, and Andrea Vicini (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2020).
Research interests
- The ethics of Augustine
- The ethics of Virgil Michel
- Benedictine Ethics
- Eucharist and Ethics
- Marriage, Family, and Sexuality