ONLINE

May 5 - 16, 2025

Taught by Fr. Joseph Koopman

What's Included:

This online course introduces students to the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics in light of St. John Paul II’s theology of the body. Beginning with a very brief overview of the foundations of Catholic Morality, drawn from the Catechism and John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor, (discussing issues such as freedom, virtue, conscience, and moral action), the course will turn to the Church’s vision of sexuality, rooted in the proper theological understanding of the human person. Consideration will be given to the importance of the body within Christian anthropology, along with an examination of the virtue of chastity, the vocation of marriage, and John Paul’s understanding of the ‘nuptial meaning of the body.’ We will study the Church’s teaching on contraception, procreative technologies, sterilization, abortion, homosexuality, fornication and cohabitation, masturbation, pornography and more.

How Does the Online Course Work?

Access to Course

Registrants for this online course, will receive access to a filmed version of our in-person 5-day Catholic Sexual Ethics course and a digital course workbook from May 5 - 16, 2025. Registrants should plan to watch approximately three hours of material per day to complete the course in the given timeframe.
Course Set Up

The videos are from a previously recorded in-person Catholic Sexual Ethics course. You can watch them on your own schedule, but we suggest committing 3 hours per day in order to get through all of the material. You will not have access to the videos beyond the end date of the course.
Resources and Direction

Each video session is complete with the resources used in the course, as well as directions for helping to make this online course, not only intellectually stimulating, but also spiritually fruitful.
Live Group Q&A Sessions

There will be live group Q&A sessions provided during that two-week period for all students who wish to participate. Details about dates and times of the sessions will be provided in an email you will receive after registering. Fr. Joseph Koopman will host the live sessions. These group sessions will be recorded for those students who cannot make the designated times and will be accessible through the online course portal.
Steps to Certification Program

Full participation in this course counts towards Certification and the Master’s Degree Programs. Students who wish to attend another course with TOBI or enter into the TOBI Certification Program, must watch all of the videos and complete a multiple choice exam at the end of the course. A passing grade of 80% is required for the exam.

Meet Your Instructor

Rev. Joseph Koopman, M.Div., M.A., S.T.D.

Rev. Joseph 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.

ONLINE

Registration cost:

$995*

Pay before February 4, 2025 for early bird pricing ($100 off). Use code "EARLYBIRD" at checkout.

Please register with an email unique to EACH registrant.

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*We understand that some people would like to have their place of work or some other entity pay part or all of their registration fees. If this is you, please use the "Pay Later" button to register for the course. Included in the email with information about the course (see ** below), you will find a payment link and instructions that you can share with the person making the payment for you.

**If you do not receive the email with information about the course (different from the receipt) on the day you register, please reach out to Hannah Shafer at hannah@tobinstitute.org.

***Register and pay before March 21, 2025, and students living within the continental US and Canada will receive a hard copy of the Catholic Sexual Ethics workbook. All students will have access to a downloadable digital workbook within the online course.

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