Part I: Catholic medical ethicists explain the Catholic tradition of double-effect theory and explore its ongoing impact on medicine and legislation. A Mary, Queen of Heaven, statue stands on a ...

It is a truism, perhaps especially in left-leaning Catholic circles, that Catholic social teaching is the church's best-kept secret. Marcus Mescher's The Ethics of Encounter: Christian Neighbor Love ...

On March 26, 2014, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Executive Director Kirk O. Hanson spoke to an international meeting of the InterAction Council, an association of former presidents and prime ...

The April 1-2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to deepen the theological foundations of ...

The campus of The Catholic University of America is seen from the bell tower of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Several violent incidents involving ...

IN a world where alliances shift rapidly and disputes over territory, trade, and influence dominate headlines, can moral integrity become a nation’s strategic advantage? History demonstrates that ...

James Keenan, S.J., one of the most important Catholic scholars of theological ethics in the United States, traces the revered history of moral theology from the New Testament to the present in A ...

“Catholic hospitals do not limit availability of emergency or medically-necessary pregnancy care.” While some reporting questions whether Catholic hospitals could treat ectopic pregnancies, the ...

A recent inquiry has concluded that England’s most popular Catholic hospital has infringed its own code of ethics by referring women for abortions and prescribing the morning-after pill. Lord Brennan, ...

With a Roman Catholic nominated by a major party, the 2020 presidential election cannot help being another fraught moment in the long argument about how to be Catholic in American public life. The ...

As part of the Markkula Center's yearlong series of talks on conscience, Ron Hamel, chief ethicist of the Catholic Health Association, discussed the role of conscience in Catholic health care. This is ...

Disability is a global reality about which too few give thought until they, a family member, or friend experiences disability first-hand. As a result, people without immediate experience or regular ...