Richard A. McCormick, SJ (1922-2000) was one of the leading U.S. Roman Catholic moral theologians of the 20th century. He was the John A. O'Brien Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in 1999, and a former senior research scholar of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Father McCormick was well-known for his annual Moral Notes published in the Jesuit quarterly Theological Studies from 1965 to 1984.

• Foreword by Lisa Sowle CahillPreface Part I: Fundamental Moral Theology 1. Moral Theology since Vatican II: Clarity or Chaos? 2. Dissent in the Church: Loyalty or Liability? 3. Moral Argument in Christian Ethics 4. The Chill Factor in Contemporary Moral Theology 5. Bishops as Teachers, Scholars as Listeners 6. L'Affaire Curran 7. Pluralism in Moral Theology 8. Catholic Moral Theology: Is Pluralism Pathogenic 9. Matters of Free Theological Debate 10. Fundamental Freedom Revisited 11. Theology in the Public Forum Part II: Practical and Pastoral Questions 12. The Consistent Ethic of Life: Is There a Historical Soft Underbelly? 13. Divorce, Remarriage and the Sacraments 14. "A Clean Heart Create for Me, O God." Impact Questions on the Artificial Heart 15. Genetic Technology and Our Common Future 16. Sterilization: The Dilemma of Catholic Hospitals 17. Homosexuality as a Moral and Pastoral Problem 18. AIDS: The Shape of the Ethical Challenge 19. Therapy or Tampering? The Ethics of Reproductive Technology and the Development of Doctrine 20. If I Had Ten Things to Share with Physicians 21. Nutrition-Hydration: The New Euthanasia? 22. The Physician and Teenage Sexuality Index

Richard A. McCormick, SJ (1922-2000) was one of the leading U.S. Roman Catholic moral theologians of the 20th century. He was the John A. O'Brien Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame until his retirement in 1999, and a former senior research scholar of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Father McCormick was well-known for his annual Moral Notes published in the Jesuit quarterly Theological Studies from 1965 to 1984.

• Foreword by Lisa Sowle CahillPreface Part I: Fundamental Moral Theology 1. Moral Theology since Vatican II: Clarity or Chaos? 2. Dissent in the Church: Loyalty or Liability? 3. Moral Argument in Christian Ethics 4. The Chill Factor in Contemporary Moral Theology 5. Bishops as Teachers, Scholars as Listeners 6. L'Affaire Curran 7. Pluralism in Moral Theology 8. Catholic Moral Theology: Is Pluralism Pathogenic 9. Matters of Free Theological Debate 10. Fundamental Freedom Revisited 11. Theology in the Public Forum Part II: Practical and Pastoral Questions 12. The Consistent Ethic of Life: Is There a Historical Soft Underbelly? 13. Divorce, Remarriage and the Sacraments 14. "A Clean Heart Create for Me, O God." Impact Questions on the Artificial Heart 15. Genetic Technology and Our Common Future 16. Sterilization: The Dilemma of Catholic Hospitals 17. Homosexuality as a Moral and Pastoral Problem 18. AIDS: The Shape of the Ethical Challenge 19. Therapy or Tampering? The Ethics of Reproductive Technology and the Development of Doctrine 20. If I Had Ten Things to Share with Physicians 21. Nutrition-Hydration: The New Euthanasia? 22. The Physician and Teenage Sexuality Index