From Monday through Wednesday, June 22-24, 2026, the Redemptorist Adult Faith Formation Team sponsored a three-evening series of talks with speaker Fr. Kevin O’Neil, C.Ss.R. Fr. Kevin O’Neil is a Redemptorist moral theologian who has taught at the Washington Theological Union, and offered sessions and courses all over the world.

Each year, the Redemptorist Adult Faith Formation Team offers a series of sessions on topics that engage participants in reflection and discussion on current and relevant topics that might help adults enter into deeper and broader reflection on the meaning and relevance of faith, and living the Christian life today. In previous years, topics have included “Hope”, “Compassion” and “The Common Good”. The sessions are offered at St. Teresa’s Church, admission is free, and registration is not required. This year’s series continued in that spirit.

About sixty people took part in the series. Each night, Fr. Kevin offered some input and reflection. He invited participants to ask questions throughout, and engaged more wide-ranging conversation near the end of each session.

Fr. Kevin described his intent in these words: Pope St. John Paul II once described the moral life as our response to the many acts of love that God has taken on our behalf. We have been gifted with freedom to respond to the love of God and moral theology is a discipline to assist us in living the moral life. During our days together we will study the building blocks of moral theology such as freedom, character, human dignity, sin and conversion. We will also examine the criteria for judgments of right and wrong and how that is reflected in Church teaching. Finally, we will review the process for the formation and exercise of conscience. In the end we hope to have greater clarity about what we are free for and how our moral theological tradition can guide along the right path.

The sessions offered a solid basis upon which participants could build an approach to moral decision-making. His exploration of the formation of conscience and the primacy of conscience highlighted the seminal influence of St. Alphonsus in this area, introducing many people— for the first time—to our own founder as a moral theologian and as the patron of moral theologians.

On Thursday evening, June 25, Fr. Kevin spoke to our Redemptorist Associates and Lay Missionaries of the Most Holy Redeemer, speaking more particularly to our Redemptorist and mission in the area of Moral Theology. Fr. Kevin focused on St. Alphonsus and his unique contribution and influence to the Church through an approach to moral theology that recognized the centrality of conscience and offered freeing and life-giving formation to confessors. It was an evening to learn, share, discuss and celebrate, and we finished it off with a social in the kitchen of the rectory, ending the week as many of our Redemptorist events conclude, with food, drink, stories, laughter and conversation.