- Topics
- Religion and Faith Traditions > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > Religion and Other Disciplines > Religion and Ethics > Social Ethics
- Course Level Format
- undergraduate
- Instructor & Institution
- Joe Incandela, Saint Mary’s College
- Course Term & Year
- Spring 2002
A 2002 course by Joe Incandela at Saint Mary's College "examines Catholic positions on some of the most controversial social, ethical, and religious issues of our day: abortion, birth control, the relation between official Catholic teachings and individual conscience, reproductive technologies, cloning, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, the allocation of scarce health resources, the ordination of women priests, capital punishment, nuclear weapons, terrorism, waging war vs. embracing peace, poverty and the United States economy, and the effect of being a member of the Church on being a citizen of the state."