Catholic Moral Theology Today

For an invaluable study of the impact of the Council on the American Church. Avery Dulles, “Vatican II and the American Experience of Church,” in Vatican II: Open Questions and New Horizons, edited by Fagin Gerald M. , Wilmington: Michael Glazier, 1984, pp. 38–57.

For a useful outline of Janssens's ethics, Janssens Louis “Personalist Morals,” Louvain Studies. 3 (1970), pp. 5–16.

For an illustration of personalism in the area of sexual ethics, Nichols Francis W. “Sexuality Fully Human,” Furrow, (March 1983), pp. 128–141.

Many will be interested in Janssens's application of his approach to in vitro fertilization in his study on the morality of AIH, AID, etc. in Louvain Studies (1980)

For William Barclay's essay, “The Characteristics of the Christian Ethic in the Teaching of Jesus,” in Christian Ethics for Today, (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1971), pp. 27–42.

That Christian ethics, in health care, in the areas of justice, by definition should be a genuine theological ethics, has not always been remembered. Aristotle rather than Jesus, reason rather than faith, Cartesian clarity, have reigned, as critics have written for a hundred years. For a fine statement about the differences between philosophical and theological ethics. Waters Raphael T. “The Relationship of Moral Philosophy to Moral Theology,” Listening (Fall, 1983), pp. 235–244.

The support for this way of developing morality is clear in the following, opening statement of a study, “What Did Jesus Say About Divorce and Remarriage?” by James Young in Catholic Charismatic (June/July 1978), pp. 18–22, where we find, “Christians are people who pattern their lives after the person and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.”

For this summary, Lobo George V. Guide to Christian Living: A New Compendium of Moral Theology, (Westminister: Christian Classics, Inc., 1985), pp. 107–124.

Barclay op. cit., p. 42.

For these comments, Schnackenburg Rudolf Christian Existence in the New Testament, Volume I. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968), pp. 99–127.

For May's statement, “Contraception Against ‘Authentic Good’ “ in Letters, America (July 12, 1986), p. 20.

These words are taken from Connery John R. “Sexual Morality,” Catholic Charismatic (June/July 1978), pp. 23–26.

In the chapter, “Christ and Morality,” in Readings in Moral Theology No. 2, ed. by Curran Charles E. , and McCormick Richard A. (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), pp. 111–120.

Somewhat ironically, and contrary to Kelly's general thesis, the positive and scientific features of US actualist medical ethics have been given strong support by psychiatrist Coleen Clements in her study “Psychiatry in the Land of Ethics: Landmarks and Landmines,” Psychiatric Annals (July, 1986), pp. 395–398.