What are feeding tubes? Why are they used? Must they always be used? What does Catholic teaching have to say about tube feeding? How can relatives reach sound moral decisions about using, forgoing, or withdrawing tube feeding from incompetent loved ones? Why do courts, state legislatures, and well-informed citizens disagree about whether or not tube feeding is ordinarily required? In Hard Decisions, Eileen P. Flynn, a respected Roman Catholic ...
Catholicism: Agenda for Renewal introduces a practical plan for restoring the credibility of the Catholic church. This work deals with today's issues: clergy sexual misconduct, problems plaguing seminaries, the repressive atmosphere created by the hierarchical and patriarchal culture of the church, and the subsequent shabby treatment of women.
This timely and important book about ethics and military action in the age of terrorism examines both general and ethical considerations relevant to war, as well as current U.S. and Coalition operations in Iraq.
The Ten Commandments: Case Studies in Catholic Morality" is a single source that summarizes Catholic teaching around the Ten Commandments. Thirty case studies related to real-life issues and dilemmas addressed by each commandment make up the heart of this text. The case studies also remind students of the central importance of the Ten Commandments as a source for moral decision-making and provide contemporary ways the Commandments can be appli...
IT IS THE GREATEST CRISIS EVER TO FACE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-the sexual molestation of minors by priests and the way the church hierarchy tried to cover up
the situation, endangering more children in the process. Once it became common knowledge in 2002, the ugly reality of a dysfunctional institution corrupted by the complicity of cardinals and bishops in the sins of a relatively small number of molesting priests has brought a powerful institut...
