We are a group of North American Catholic moral theologians who come together in friendship to engage each other in theological discussion, to aid one another in our common search for wisdom, and to help one another live lives of discipleship, all in service to the reign of God.Read More ...
Nevertheless, reference is made frequently to Catholic medical ethics, presumably because Catholic moral theology and the Catholic Church have dealt more frequently in the past with questions of medical ethics than have other religious institutions....
Ethics. —I. DEFINITION.—Many writers regard ethics (Gr. ethike) as any scientific treatment of the moral order and divide it into theological, or Christian, eth...
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Secret (Lat. secernere, “to set apart”), in Moral Theology, something not commonly known, and which it is one’s duty to keep concealed. Theologians are wont to enumerate three kinds: the natural secret, the secret by promise, and the secret of trust, There is also the self-accusatio...
Journal of Moral TheologyAbout UsMission statement We are a group of North American Catholic moral theologians who come together in friendship to engage each other in theological discussion, to aid one another in our common search for wisdom, and to help one another live lives of discipleship, ...
I was not as “free” in the past as I am today–and here I do not refer to political freedom, but moral freedom, which implies love, knowledge, and responsibility. Moreover, we often look upon the relationship between free-will and one’s ability to reject a course of action (such ...
Jason King, chair of the theology department at Saint Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, wrote about the accessibility and damage of pornography in his latest piece at Catholic Moral Theology. King summed up the situation well when he wrote that people used to have to exert an effort...
“Listening” to Nature: The Significance of Leon Kass for Catholic Moral Theology“Listening” to Nature: The Significance of Leon Kass for Catholic Moral Theology"Listening" to Nature: The Significance of Leon Kass for Catholic Moral Theology by Stephen F. Torraeo Assistant Professor of Theology...
Scripture, moral theology, and the documents of the Church call Catholics not to retreat from culture and refuse to have anything to do with works that are not holy. Instead, we are to engage the world constructively, using our God-given critical thinking skills to discern the good and the...