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Voices
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Articles by Lisa Sowle Cahill
Arts & CultureBooks
'Just Love,' Reviewed
Lisa Sowle Cahill
An appraisal of Margaret Farley's groundbreaking and controversial work of moral theology
The Call of the Catholic Citizen: Theologians and other scholars respond to Cathleen Kaveny
Lisa Sowle CahillJohn A. Coleman

In her article "Catholics as Citizens" (11/1), M. Cathleen Kaveny calls for new moral thinking to address the complex ethical dilemmas facing Catholics today. Kaveny argues that the moral theological category of "cooperation with evil" is insufficient to address questions such as whether Catholics can vote for a pro-choice politician or shop in a big-box store if some of the products are made in sweatshops. In such an environment it is necessary to "develop new ways of analyzing the involvement of individuals in systemic structures of complicity." America asked Lisa Sowle Cahill, John A. Coleman, S.J., and Lisa Fullam to address these and other issues raised by Professor Kaveny's article.

The Power of One

“Theoretical principles and ideal or absolute values are not enough to set the moral rules.”

Arts & CultureBooks
'Patterns of Relationship'
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Just Love’s thesis is that justice is central to sexual morality, especially justice in the sense of respect for the real identity and needs of the other.
Catholicism, Death and Modern Medicine
Lisa Sowle Cahill
In the spring of 2005, Pope John Paul II and Theresa Schindler Schiavo died within three days of each other. The pope’s death was held up as a Christian model; Ms. Schiavo’s was a flashpoint of moral and ecclesial turmoil. Terri Schiavo was 41 years old, had been in a so-called persisten
Realigning Catholic Priorities
Lisa Sowle Cahill
If asked to name the most prominent item on the Catholic bioethics agenda, most people in the United States, including Catholics themselves, would no doubt name abortion, closely followed by biomedical uses of embryos, such as stem cell research and cloning. Everyone knows that the Catholic Church p
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Husband, Wife, Christ
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Michael Lawler is the director of the Center for Marriage and Family at Creighton University in Omaha Neb and for the past 30 years has taught courses on marriage to Catholic students His publications on marriage and family span decades and include several books on marriage all informed by a c
Stem Cells: A Bioethical Balancing Act
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Some day medical science may be able to heal or alleviate ailments like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, spinal cord injuries, heart disease and cancer by giving patients new cells that have been guided to act as replacements for their own damaged tissue. Sometimes the
The Genome Project: More Than a Medical Milestone
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Two scientific teams, one public and one private, jointly announced in June that their researchers, working separately, had deciphered the human genetic code. Elation in the scientific community and extensive media coverage signaled the importance of their accomplishment for the capabilities of medi
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Normative and Not
Lisa Sowle Cahill
Martha Nussbaum a philosopher and professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago is a prolific and forceful writer with wide-ranging interests in the classics literature jurisprudence politics feminist theory economics and international development But her primary orientation is et