Product Description

After setting forth guidelines for arriving at sound ethical and moral decisions, including how to form a correct conscience, Catholicism and Ethics applies these guidelines to such vital health-care issues as artificial insemination, cloning, test tube babies, organ and tissue transplants, artificial nutrition and hydration, and the use of ordinary vs. extraordinary means. The book also traces the history of the Church s opposition to artificial contraception, shows why abortion and physician-assisted killing are terrible crimes, and presents sample health-care proxies governing end-of-life decisions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #838108 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 205 pages

About the Author
James J. Drummey, editor of the weekly Catholic Replies column that has appeared in The Wanderer newspaper since 1991, has been involved in the religious education field for more than 30 years. He is the author of two question-and-answer books, Catholic Replies and Catholic Replies 2, co-author of the five-volume Catholicism textbook series that is being used in hundreds of Catholic high schools and parish religion programs, and a popular speaker and defender of the Catholic Church.

Customer Reviews

Incredible resource for Catholic ethics studies
This book provides a detail explanation of ethics in difficult 20th century situations that the church has a difficult time to discuss or cover. 1 - Natural ethics and moral are discussed and defined, 2 - morality and it's effects are detailed, 3 - many different applications are listed and examined sucha as principles relating to the origin of life such as contraception, prenatal testing, cloning, and more, the taking of life such as suicide abortion and more, and the presevation of life such aas plastic surgery, aids, organ transplantation. Extremely good ethical reference guide for today's Catholics.

Clear thinking
All the books in this series are excellent. They are short and very readable. In Catholicism and Ethics, the authors use clear, logical thinking to lead the reader through a myriad of ethical issues, ranging from abortion to euthanasia to human cloning to hypnosis to body piercings. The authors define and use terminology from moral philosophy but continue to write in a readable manner. The authors also give plenty of examples and illustrations to bring all this theory to a practical realm. I can't stress enough how clear the thinking in this book is. We are BOMBARDED these days with sloppy, sloppy thinking, and it is so refreshing to read a book where the authors look carefully at a moral question, what the action is, what the consequences are, and spell out pertinent criteria. Numerous texts, such as Evangelium Vitae and Donum Vitae, are quoted (sometimes at great length) to confirm that the authors are relaying the true teaching of the Magesterium. Excellent book.