National Director
Arland K. Nichols is the National Director of HLI America, an educational initiative of Human Life International.
While serving as instructor of Morality and Bioethics at Pope John XXIII High School in Katy, Texas, he co-founded the Archdiocese of San Antonio’s continuing education program for medical professionals, “Converging Roads: Bioethics, Healthcare and Catholic Teaching,” where he remains the Associate Director. In his years teaching he is most proud of his having founded “Ladies of Virtue,” a student-run organization dedicated to providing formation and fellowship to young women in high school.
Mr. Nichols graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Philosophy, and he earned a Masters of Divinity from the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology. He holds a certification in Health Care Ethics from the National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC), and is a member of the Catholic Medical Association (CMA), NCBC, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
An accomplished writer on issues that touch upon the dignity of the human person, Mr. Nichols’s work has been published in National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, The Linacre Quarterly, New Oxford Review, and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly. A highly regarded speaker, he has given presentations at Texas A&M University, University of St. Thomas, Christus Santa Rosa Hospital, UT School of Medicine, Houston, the poster session of the annual conference of the CMA, Baylor University, UT School of Medicine, Galveston, and numerous parishes. He has also guest-hosted a San Antonio television and radio program, “Catholicism Live.”
Mr. Nichols and his wife, Cindy, reside in Front Royal with their three children, Joseph Daniel, Mary Catherine, and Thomas Augustine.
Some of his latest writing:
“The Primetime Blues”, New Oxford Review, November 2011
“Promised Objectivity: Americans Receive Planned Parenthood Ideology”, Public Discourse, September 2011
“In vitro fertilization is dehumanizing”, Catholic Herald, September 2011
“Betrayal or Integrity? The Choice is Yours”, New Oxford Review, December 2010
“Physician-assisted suicide: Can a culture of life and love prevail?”, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, April 2010