Melanie Susan Barrett

Dr. Melanie Barrett is Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary, a graduate Catholic diocesan seminary located in Mundelein, Illinois. She holds two doctorates: (1) a Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School; and (2) an S.T.D. (Sacred Theology Doctorate) in moral theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She also holds an S.T.L. (Licentiate in Sacred Theology) in dogmatic theology. She teaches courses on Catholic social doctrine; the ethics of sex, marriage, and family; virtue theory; and philosophical ethics. She is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Academy of Catholic Theology. Currently, she is completing a book on suffering and the moral life in the theology of Thomas Aquinas.