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Review of Eli S. McCarthy, ed., "A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence"

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
Review of Eli S.
Wesley Sutermeister
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Human or Person? On the Burial of Aborted Children

Journal of Moral Theology, 2017
In this essay, I first outline four key points in HEA 1337’s provision on the disposition of aborted children. Then, I summarize five of Judge Tanya Walton Pratt’s major objections to this provision.
Justin Menno
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The Vital Contribution of Independent, Ethically Grounded Research to the Global Health Agenda

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
The author highlights the important role played by accurate assessment of the negative impact on health–for individuals, communities, and the whole planet–caused by the production, use, and disposal of chemical products.
Kurt Straif
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Review Essay: Exclusion, Fragmentation, and Theft: A Survey and Synthesis of Moral Approaches to Economic Inequality

Journal of Moral Theology, 2018
This review of economic and theological literature explores three models of inequality: exclusion, fragmentation, and theft. By differentiating three types of injustice in inequality, and by connecting those accounts to specific economic factors of the ...
David Cloutier
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Children's Right to Play

Journal of Moral Theology, 2018
Exploring play in the U.S. reveals adult ambivalence about play, the dominance of competitive consumerism in this sphere of children’s lives, and structural injustices that impact who plays and who is left out.
Mary M. Doyle Roche
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Aquinas, Custom, and the Coexistence of Infused and Acquired Cardinal Virtues

Journal of Moral Theology, 2019
My task here is to show why it may be the case that the person who loses infused virtue might not possess acquired virtue even while consistently performing acts that seem good from an observer’s perspective. At question is the source of the stability of
William C. Mattison III
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Los Muertos No Son Números: Gestión Política de la Muerte en Tiempos de Pandemia

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
The Dead Are Not Numbers: Political Management of Death During the Pandemic Este texto analiza el manejo de la muerte por la pandemia en la administración de Bolsonaro.
Élio Gasda
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Discerning a Catholic Environmental Ethos:Three Episodes in the Growth of Environmental Awareness n Western Pennsylvania

Journal of Moral Theology, 2017
This paper examines three critical environmental episodes: the development of the subsistence homestead community of Norvelt, Pennsylvania in the 1930s and 1940s, the Donora smog disaster of 1948, and the emergence of the modern environmental movement of
Tim Kelly
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Almsgiving as a Formative Practice of Repentance for Christian Discipleship: the Gospel of Luke and Daniel 4:24

Journal of Moral Theology, 2021
In this article, I argue that almsgiving is an important formative practice of repentance for the Christian disciple that leads the disciple to place one’s faith in God, to seek repentance for one’s sins, and subsequently disposes one to the reception of
James Stroud
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Review Essay: Locating the Church in the World: Ethnography, Christian Ethics, and the Global Church

Journal of Moral Theology, 2013
Two important church-and-the-world Catholic theological emphases have recently arisen: firstly, how ethnographic research affects moral theology and ecclesiology, and secondly, moral theology being done consciously within the “world church” context. Both
Christopher P. Vogt
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