In his doctoral dissertation at Catholic University on usury, he was totally engaged in this important issue of the development of moral teaching on the issue of usury (a loan) over an 800-year period. In practice, however, all agreed that in a pluralistic society such as the United States, the Catholic Church could accept the reality of religious freedom. Noonan frequently argued with Benard and Burke, who supported Murray on this issue. John Courtney Murray arguing that the Catholic Church should accept religious freedom despite the constant and longstanding teaching of the hierarchical magisterium against such a position, bolstered by the almost unanimous position of contemporary Catholic theologians and canonists. Eugene Burke, introduced him to the long 1948 paper by Jesuit Fr. He then went to the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., to study Catholic thought, taking tutorials from some members of the theology faculty and enrolling in the graduate program in philosophy. This experience confirmed his feeling that Catholicism was the largest intellectual force in his life, but that he had never really studied Catholicism and knew very little about it. He then studied at Cambridge and spent time in Rome and the rest of Europe, often taking in the Catholic culture of these areas. Noonan had graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude at age 19 in 1946. My relationship with Noonan came from his interest in and contributions to moral theology, especially in the beginning with regard to the question of contraception, which was such a burning issue in Catholicism in the mid and late 1960s. Few people have ever achieved such academic prominence in so many different fields.
As a polymath, his primary area of academic interest was history, but his subjects included jurisprudence, philosophy, theology and canon law. Noonan Jr., a federal judge and polymath who defied ideological pigeonholing on profound issues like assisted suicide, the death penalty, civil liberties and illegal immigration" died on April 17 at age 90.Īs a judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for 30 years, Noonan wrote 10,080 opinions. The opening sentence of The New York Times' obituary of Judge John Noonan provides an excellent illustration of what a topic sentence should be.
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