What's New in the Ethical and Religious Directives?

National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (Washington: USCC, 1995).

Wildes Kevin , “A Memo from the Central Office: The ‘Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services’,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 5 (1995) 133–140.

Gallagher John , “The Ecclesiology of the U.S. Bishops’ 1994 Health Care Directives,” Review for Religious 55 (1996) 230–248.

For further insight, he refers us to Yves Congar, Lay People in the Church, trans. Donald Attwater (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Co., 1957); Murnion Philip , “The Next Steps for the Laity,” Origins 25.2 (1995) 28–32; Ladislas Orsy, “Structures for the Vision,” America 173 (7 October 1995) 10–15.

From Dulles Avery , Models of the Church (New York: Doubleday, 1974).

On advanced directives see my “Living Wills” The Tablet (September 17, 1994) 1157–1159.

See Veritatis Splendor 31–35, 59–65.

See the important essays, John T. Noonan , “Development in Moral Doctrine,” and Thomas Kopfensteiner, “Science, Metaphor and Moral Casuistry,” in The Text of Casuistry Keenan James , and Shannon Thomas , eds. (Washington, D. C: Georgetown UP, 1995) 198–204 and 207–220, respectively.

On the question of the principle and ectopic pregnancy, see my “The Function of the Principle of Double Effect” Theological Studies 54 (1993) 294–315.

See, for instance, Tuohey John , “The Implications of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services on the Clinical Practice of Resolving Ectopic Pregnancies,” Louvain Studies 20 (1995) 41–57.