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Catholic Social Living: Teaching Students to “Live Wisely, Think Deeply, and Love Generously”

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
This article shares three ideas on teaching Catholic social teaching (CST). The first is a preference for having students work with selections from primary texts and to pull these texts into a coherent narrative. Second, the article suggests an ordered
Bernard Brady
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Virtue as Birth Control: An Examination of the Account of Rational Participation as a Component of Natural Law in Humanae Vitae and the Documents of the Papal Commission

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae is one of the most controversial ecclesial documents issued in the last century, still dividing on account of the document’s teaching concerning the licitness of contraception.
Arielle Harms
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The Rising Global Cancer Pandemic--Complete Book

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
Cancer is the first or second cause of death in 134 countries, the leading cause of death in most high-income countries (i.e., 10 million deaths in 2020), and the leading cause of death by disease in American children. An estimated 19.3 million new cases
Andrea Vicini, Philip Landrigan, Kurt Straif   +2 more
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A Cancer Diagnosis: Raw Emotion, Front and Center–How Your Life Changes in a Second

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
A Boston College staff member, Laura Campbell, vividly describes how cancer disrupted her life and, in very similar ways, affects the lives of any worker.
Laura Campbell
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Pollution, Climate change, and Global Public Health: Social Justice and the Common Good

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
The author discusses the health effects of pollution and climate change to planetary health, and examines the distribution of their impacts through the lens of social justice. Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease, disability, and death–
Philip Landrigan
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Ethics and Equity in Global Health: The Preferential Option for the Poor

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
The author denounces poverty as the main cause of health issues, diseases, and premature death. To break the vicious cycle caused by poverty, which begins with injustice and ends with death, he argues for an approach from below, from the poor, which ...
Alexandre Martins
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Can a Robot Be a Person? De-Facing Personhood and Finding It Again with Lévinas

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
The question “Can a robot be a person?” has emerged of late in the field of bioethics. The paper addresses the question in dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas.
Roberto Dell'Oro
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The Essence of Hindu Doctrine and its Influence on Christianity in America and Europe [PDF]

International Journal of Orthodox Theology, 2015
This paper addresses the topic of the identity of Hindu religion and its impact on Christianity in the West (i.e. in Europe and USA), which is to be seen, especially through Neo-Hindu movements (that occurred mainly during 1950s–1980s).
Alexandru-Corneliu Arion
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Talking God and Talking Cancer: Why Womanist Ethics Matters for Breast Cancer Prevention and Control among Black Women

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
Elizabeth Williams, first, articulates a Womanist approach that denounces the racial disparities and inequities in access to preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic services for Black women in the United States.
Elizabeth A. Williams
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The Vatican and Artificial Intelligence: An Interview with Bishop Paul Tighe

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
For several years, Vatican officials have been involved in discussions regarding AI. In this interview, Bishop Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, tells about this history, the various people and organizations involved in the ...
Brian Patrick Green
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