The Catholic Church opposes euthanasia, understood as the deliberate killing of a person in order to end his or her…
We are once again considering the wrongfulness of direct abortion and, more generally, the deliberate killing of human beings in…
A direct abortion is an abortion that is deliberately chosen and is always morally wrong. It is morally wrong because…
Human life is a precious gift from Godwho made man and woman in His own image and likeness. The human…
I have set before you life and death . . . Choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19). With these words, Moses exhorts God’s…
We often use the word “patient” when speaking of men and women who are receiving medical care without giving much…
Conscience, according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, is the act of the human intellect by which “we judge that something should…
To “cooperate with evil” sounds like a horrible thing to do—and it can be. But some cooperation with evil is…
Saint Thomas Aquinas, in his great Summa Theologica, begins his treatment of ethics with the Christian understanding that human beings…
For human beings, doing good means choosing a good moral object for the sake of a good end. If a…