Category Archives: ethics

I’m getting a lot of questions on sexual ethics by e-mail and in comments on blog posts. It’s important not to see sexual ethics as if it were a special version of morality, based on a different set of basic … Continue reading →

The Latin title of this Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis means “The Joy of Love”. But it is also titled, in English, “On Love in the Family”. The exhortation is termed “post-synodal” because it represents the last document of the … Continue reading →

Passive versus Active Legal and medical sources distinguish between passive euthanasia and active euthanasia. Active euthanasia involves commission: doing something to end a person’s life. If a physician gives a patient a type or amount of medication designed to cause … Continue reading →

Pope Saint John Paul II: “The negative moral precepts, those prohibiting certain concrete actions or kinds of behavior as intrinsically evil, do not allow for any legitimate exception. They do not leave room, in any morally acceptable way, for the … Continue reading →

There is a simple way to shine the light of truth on insidious false teachings about contraception: compare contraception to euthanasia. Both acts are intrinsically evil, and all intrinsically evil acts are always wrong for the same reason: evil in … Continue reading →

Human persons are created by God with the gifts of body and soul, intellect and free will. We are responsible before God for the use or misuse of those gifts. As persons created in the image of God, we are … Continue reading →

Janet Smith and others claim that Humanae Vitae has a translation error. That claim is thoroughly refuted in my article here: The Latin Text of Humanae Vitae. Smith and others also claim that the Magisterium has only condemned contraception within … Continue reading →