Through the generosity of Mike and Phyllis Shea, David DeCosse, director, religious and Catholic ethics with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has spearheaded a project on the theology of ...

Christian ethicists have neglected conscience, understood as an individual's moral self-awareness before a locus of accountability and judgment, over the last few decades. The aim of this essay is to ...

A progressive moral vision is deeply connected to the exercise of conscience. But the interface between conscience and policymaking is poorly defined, making the concept of conscience susceptible to ...

Recently published research led by the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus examined the prevalence - and impact - of physicians' ethical or religious barriers to their involvement in ...

THE word ‘crisis’ has become a commonplace. It confronts us in every morning’s newspaper, in every other magazine article. It stares at us from the title pages of books. Every week we are told that ...

Few novelists have captured the ultimate ambiguity of conscience better than Mark Twain did in Huckleberry Finn. Jim, the escaped slave who accompanies Huck down the river on a raft, is on a journey ...

Lawmakers across the country insist the right of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other medical providers to practice medicine in alignment with their beliefs is being infringed. A new Montana law ...