The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics recently hosted the conference "Conscience in Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities, and Institutional Policies." Scholars from around the world gathered to ...

From the last two national elections to the current controversy over health care reform, the struggle over the Roman Catholic conscience in American politics has been in full public view. Too often in ...

David E. DeCosse (@daviddecosse.bsky.social) is the director of the Religious & Catholic Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. We are ...

The National Catholic Bioethics Center on Tuesday recalled that its guidance on vaccination against the coronavirus is drawn from the full range of Church teaching on the common good, conscience, and ...

My extended visit to the Baptist vaccination clinic — the hospital’s attempt to beat the weather by taking in three days’ worth of appointments created a not-socially-distanced crush and a long wait — ...

A measure that would have allowed French pharmacists to “refuse to perform a pharmaceutical act liable of endangering human life” has been dropped after exposing ideological divisions within the ...

In-depth report on current state of medical ethics in India with focus on amputation surgeries on limbs of perfectly healthy children and adults to make them a cripple and high earning beggars The ...