{"id":2280,"date":"2025-03-04T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:33:06","slug":"july-31-2025-fr-joseph-koopman-professor-of-moral-theology-at-st-mary-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"July 31, 2025 &#8211; The Moral Law: A Burden or a Key to our Happiness? with Fr. Joe Koopman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">POST-EVENT UPDATE<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fr. Koopman&nbsp; mentioned a podcast with Christopher West which went into the subject matter in more detail. The link is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TFzdaGC93GQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TFzdaGC93GQ<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/First-Friday-Club-of-Cleveland-Logo-SMALL-150px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2281 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Koopman.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reverend Joseph Koopman<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor of Moral Theology, St. Mary Seminary<br \/>\npresenting<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Moral Law:&nbsp; A Burden or a Key to Our Happiness<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rev. Joe Koopman, M.Div, M.A., S.T.D., graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 1996, after which he entered St. Mary Seminary in Cleveland, Ohio. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Cleveland in 2001, and served as a newly ordained priest at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Parma. From 2005 to 2009, Fr. Koopman attended the Accademia Alfonsiana in Rome, Italy, where he received a license and doctorate in theology. Since 2009, he has been a professor of moral theology at St. Mary Seminary, along with serving as an advisor in moral theology and ethics for the Diocese of Cleveland and the Ohio Catholic Conference of Bishops. (https:\/\/tobinstitute.org\/about-the-institute\/meet-the-faculty\/)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/am1260therock.podbean.com\/e\/first-friday-club-preview-for-july-31-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/am1260therock.podbean.com\/e\/first-friday-club-preview-for-july-31-2025\/\"><strong>click here to preview this talk!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thank you to AM-1260 The Rock and Deacon Jim Armstrong for providing our preview podcasts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thursday, July 31, 2025<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/?p=2280\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POST-EVENT UPDATE Fr. Koopman&nbsp; mentioned a podcast with Christopher West which went into the subject matter in more detail. The link is: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TFzdaGC93GQ Reverend Joseph Koopman Professor of Moral Theology, St. Mary Seminary presenting The Moral Law:&nbsp; A Burden or a Key to Our Happiness Rev. Joe Koopman, M.Div, M.A., S.T.D., graduated from Franciscan University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-luncheon-speaker","category-past-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firstfridayclubcleveland.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}