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One court has concluded that because two actions share a characteristec--hastening death--they are ethically identical. THE U.S. SUPREME COURT announced decisions on June 26, 1997, in the cases Vacco v. [...]

IN A REMARKABLY FINE ESSAY in Time magazine (6/17), Richard Lacayo noted that power and influence are not identical notions. As he put it: 'Power and influence generally go hand [...]

The inherent values, virtues and possible vices of the book are not the issue here. The process is. FATHER RICHARD P. McBRIEN is well known to America readers, and indeed [...]

The most memorable and quoted sentence of the apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, issued by Pope John Paul 11 on May 30, reads as follows: 'Wherefore, in order that all doubt [...]

The Encyclical Veritatis Splendor ('The Splendor of Truth'), signed on Aug. 6 but released Oct. 5, did not appear from nowhere, a kind of surprising and sudden ecclesial 'Big Bang' [...]

I AM DISTRESSED, of course, that the Society o Jesus 'came in for a good deal of criticism' at the International Humanae Vitae Conference in Omaha. 1 do not know [...]

REACTIONS TO THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY of Humanae Vitae (July 25, 1968) will predictably vary as much as the recent reactions of two cardinals. At the 12th Human Life International World [...]

THE LATE, GREAT JESUIT theologian Karl Rahner (1904-84) once noted that moral analyses frequently reflect basic assumptions and cultural variables that operate behind them. He referred to such assumptions as [...]

The important bioethical issues in the 1990s will include AIDS, euthanasia, and genetic technology.

I view the matter of the church's teaching on birth regulation as dominantly an authority problem.... Any modification of past authority is viewed as an attack on present authority. Behind [...]

Jesuit Fr. Richard A. McCormick knows controversy when he sees it brewing. The noted scholar writes that Beyond Its Authority: The Magisterium and Matters of Natural Law, by Frank Mobbs [...]

By James M. Gustafson The Pilgrim Press. 174p $16.95 (paper) James M. Gustafson, currency the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and Religion at Emory University and formerly professor [...]

When the rightness or wrongness of choice is reduced to the single factor that it is this individual's choice, morality has been impoverished. Richard A. McCormick, S.J., currently the John [...]

By Richard A. McCormick Will control by insurance companies, the spread of H.M.O.'s and shrinking Government subsidies lead to the demise of Catholic hospitals? THE CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is [...]

I write to express agreement with NCR's editorial on episcopal reaction to the statement of the Catholic Theological Society of America on the ordination of women ('Questioning is not unholy [...]

Veritatis Splendor is 179 pages long. Parts of it are extremely dense and technical. That is all but a guarantee that most laypeople will not read it. Even many bishops [...]