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The Significance of Pope Francis's Prophetic Call: 'Care for Our Common Home' for Northern Appalachia

Journal of Moral Theology, 2017
Pope Francis gives attention to the plight of the poor several times on Laudato Si’, drawing attention to the fact that it is the poor people of our world who bear the heaviest burden of the abuse inflicted on our “sister earth.” This fact prompts his ...
Anne Clifford
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A Crisis of Mistaken Identity: The Ethical Insufficiency of the Corporate University Model

Journal of Moral Theology, 2020
Today, universities and their administrators increasingly see themselves through the eyes of a corporate university model that defines the university as a business and asserts that it is best understood in strictly economic terms.
Conor M. Kelly
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Agere Contra: An "Ignatian Option" for Engagement with American Society and Culture

Journal of Moral Theology, 2017
I have broken my article into three parts. First, I look at some of the more recent discussions surrounding the idea that the Americanist proposition is no longer viable.
Benjamin T. Peters
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Does Hospital and Health System Consolidation Serve the Common Good?

Journal of Moral Theology, 2019
From 1998-2017, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within health care have resulted in considerable consolidation within an industry that historically eschewed the idea in favor of local or regional health care.
Michael Panicola
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Dignity and the Body: Reclaiming What Autonomy Ignores

Journal of Moral Theology, 2015
This paper defends the moral significance of human dignity against calls for its dismissal. The authors neither deny that the language of dignity has deep theological roots nor feel obliged to translate the argument from theological to merely secular ...
Joel J. Shuman, Brian Volck
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Round Table Discussion: Just Peacemaking--A Virtue-Based Peace Ethic

Journal of Moral Theology, 2018
There has been a lot of excellent ecumenical work on a just peace approach to conflict. Yet, Glen Stassen’s just peacemaking practices and Maryann Cusimano Love’s just peace principles, as well as most of the just peace literature, would be enhanced by a
Eli S. McCarthy
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Unmanned: Autonomous Drones as a Problem of Theological Anthropology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2015
The thought of Karl Barth and Søren Kierkegaard can prove unsettling when applied to autonomous drones (UxV). What we as Church are called to proclaim about such a modern technological development as UxV’s is, at the moment, quite unclear – but such ...
Kara N. Slade
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The Threat to Academic Freedom and the Contingent Scholar

Journal of Moral Theology, 2019
The future of scholarship in Christian ethics is jeopardized by the predominance of contingent faculty at American universities. Over seventy percent of all higher education faculty are adjuncts, with half of the teaching faculty having part-time ...
Lincoln R. Rice
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The Virtue of Equity and the Contemporary World

Journal of Moral Theology, 2019
In this essay, I argue that Pinckaers provides a natural law theory which justifies the claim that the discernment of an individual citizen according to the virtue of equity might, in specific situations, justifiably stand against the authority of civil ...
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
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Symposium on the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family--Dialogue and Communion

Journal of Moral Theology, 2016
In light of the public exchange about the 2015 Synod of the Family between The New York Times op/ed writer Ross Douthat and the open letter from Academic Theologian, this essay addresses how Catholic theologians should engage in dialogue using the letter
Andrew Kim
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