The principle of double effect and proportionate reason can be a useful way of assessing actions as moral or immoral.

Catholic medical school education and the Catholic health care systems in the U.S. emphasize the moral growth of the physician and respect for the body, mind and spirit of patients.

A graduate of Georgetown medical school explains the rich moral training in social justice and commitment to humanity she received at that Jesuit institution.

An exploration of whether artificial nutrition and hydration is judged to be extraordinary care in Catholic health care ethics.

The Catholic Health Association of the United States has chosen to allow the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services to supersede Pope John Paul II’s allocution on patients in a permanent vegetative state.

The diagnostic and clinical criteria for diagnosing persistent vegetative state.

Physicians have a right to conscientiously object to procedures and therapies that they find to be morally objectionable.

A review of Clark's article about the permissibility, under Roman Catholic moral theology, of using methotrexate in ectopic pregnancies.

A response to a March 2007 Virtual Mentor clinical pearl about the diagnoses made on the television show House.

Direct sterilization by means of tubal ligation is morally unacceptable in Catholic bioethics but other procedures that result in indirect sterilization may be acceptable under certain conditions.