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Development Of Catholic Moral Doctrine: Probing The Subtext, M. Kaveny Nov 2013

Development Of Catholic Moral Doctrine: Probing The Subtext, M. Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.


Hauerwas And The Law: Is There A Basis For Conversation?, M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 2011

Hauerwas And The Law: Is There A Basis For Conversation?, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.


Prophetic Discourse In The Public Square, M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 2008

Prophetic Discourse In The Public Square, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.


Prophecy And Casuistry: Abortion, Torture And Moral Discourse (Giannella Lecture), M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 2005

Prophecy And Casuistry: Abortion, Torture And Moral Discourse (Giannella Lecture), M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.


Development Of Catholic Moral Doctrine: Probing The Subtext, M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 2002

Development Of Catholic Moral Doctrine: Probing The Subtext, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.


Complicity With Evil, M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 2002

Complicity With Evil, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.


Conjoined Twins And Catholic Moral Analysis: Extraordinary Means And Casuistical Consistency, M. Cathleen Kaveny May 2002

Conjoined Twins And Catholic Moral Analysis: Extraordinary Means And Casuistical Consistency, M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

This article draws upon the Roman Catholic distinction between “ordinary” and “extraordinary” means of medical treatment to analyze the case of “Jodie” and “Mary,” the Maltese conjoined twins whose surgical separation was ordered by the English courts over the objection of their Roman Catholic parents and Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. It attempts to shed light on the use of that distinction by surrogate decision makers with respect to incompetent patients. In addition, it critically analyzes various components of the distinction by comparing the reasoning used by Catholic moralists in this case with the reasoning used …


A Response To John T. Noonan, Jr., M. Cathleen Kaveny Dec 1998

A Response To John T. Noonan, Jr., M. Cathleen Kaveny

M. Cathleen Kaveny

No abstract provided.