Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2005 by Sebastian Mahfood. Many of the images, audios, and videos used in this site have been inlined from their original locations on the Internet. They are being used for educational purposes in alignment with the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002. Where appropriate, a notice of the origin of the media is posted, but all locations can be found in the source code for a given page. Under the stipulations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, none of the material, then, will remain active in the class cache beyond its life on the original hosting server. Content creators have the right to request any inlined media event be removed from the course site by contacting the professor at mahfood@kenrick.edu. All rights reserved to the content owners. Please do not make or distribute copies of these materials beyond the needs of the course.

The course instructor would like to thank the following members of the faculty, staff, and student populations at Kenrick School of Theology for their contributions to the development of the media content posted within this site:

Concerning the development of the course, I used the Ciardi translation for most of my commentaries but made available to the students other online translations that would broaden my non-Italian speaking population's understanding of the richness of Dante's original. Twelve students began the course in January, 2005, and their interactions with the texts are not only useful indicators of their progress but also provided me with a platform for discussion beyond the content of my original commentaries. To facilitate student understanding of the concepts discussed by Dante, I videotaped 20 members of our faculty, staff, and student population and inserted into the course about 150 short 60-second or so explanations derived from the various disciplines at Kenrick School of Theology -- systematic theology, Church history, moral theology, scripture, pastoral theology, and Latin literature. To ensure a roundedness in the multimedia, I inlined materials found online and sought permissions where I felt it was necessary and appropriate to do so, respecting both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002. As I won't be maintaining the links to the inlined media until I next teach the course, some of them will disappear over time as they are removed from their host servers. To fully view the materials on this site, it will be necessary to install three media players if you don't already have them installed on your computer -- RealPlayer (www.real.com), Quicktime (www.quicktime.com) and Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com). Because some of the videos, like the one with Cardinal Avery Dulles speaking on the population of hell, are rather long, some areas of the site are best accessed through a high-speed connection.

In any case, I put what portions of this website are owned by me (my commentaries, which I feel are better in the second and third canticles than they are in the first, my video interviews with the Kenrick Community, and my site design and structure) into the public domain and hope that some use may be found in them by others. For that which I cannot put in the public domain, I hold myself completely accountable for its dissemination through my site and ask those who find their materials inlined on my site to email me at the address below if they wish to have them removed.


Mr. Michael Basler Business Officer	Fr. Lawrence Brennan Systematic Theology	Fr. Damien Dougherty, OFM Sacred Scripture OT & NT	Fr. Edmund Eichor Latin

Sr. Zoe Glenski, DC Church History	Dr. John Gresham Systematic Theology	Msgr. Ed Griesedieck Associate Spiritual Director	Fr. Matthew Gutowski Moral Theology

Dr. Sue Harvath Pastoral Counseling	Fr. Jack Hunthausen Director of Spiritual Formation	Rev. Mr. Joey Kaump Transitional Deacon	Fr. Gregory Lockwood Mariology

Fr. C. Eugene Morris Sacramental Theology	Mrs. Kathy Raterman Registrar	Fr. Edward Richard, MS Moral Theology	Dr. Andrew Sopko Eastern Christianity

Dr. Lawrence J. Welch Systematic Theology	Fr. Michael Witt Church History	Ms. Mary Beth Wittry Sacred Music	Msgr. Ted Wojcicki President-Rector