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authors Brian V. Johnstone, C.Ss.R., is the Warren Blanding Professor of Religion and Culture at The Catholic University of America. He is a moral theologian with interests in fundamental moral theology, bioethics, and peace and war. His research interests include moral theology and philosophy. He is a member of the Redemptorist Congregation. Thomas A. Shannon is Professor of Religion and Social Ethics in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. He is the author or editor of over twenty books and forty articles in the areas of bioethics and Roman Catholic Social Ethics. His most recent works have been on genetic engineering and include the edited collection Genetic Engineering: The Documentary History (Greenwood Press, 1999) and Made in Whose Image? Genetic Engineering and Christian Ethics (Humanity Books, 1999). Kathryn Getek is a doctoral candidate in Theology at Boston College in the area of Theological Ethics. Her current dissertation research is on justice as it relates to the American prison and virtue ethics. She currently holds the Catherine of Siena Teaching Fellowship in Ethics at Villanova University. Thomas Nairn, O.F.M., is a member of the Sacred Heart Province of the Order of Friars Minor. He currently is the Erica and Harry John Family Professor of Catholic Ethics Director of Health Care Mission Leadership. He received his M.A., and M.Div. at Catholic Theological Union, his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has studied abroad at the University of Cambridge. Although interested in a wide range of ethical issues, most of Thomas Nairn’s research has been in the area of health care ethics. His current work has been in areas such as end of life issues, genetics, the interrelation between religious and cultural values in health care decision making, and organizational ethics. He consults for a variety of Catholic health care systems and helped develop the health care mission leadership certificate program. Mary Beth Ingham, C.S.J., is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and has taught philosophy at LMU for the past eighteen years. She is the author of seven books and numerous articles on the thought of Franciscan John Duns Scotus (1265-1308). She has been a member of the summer faculty at the Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University and a popular speaker with various Franciscan groups. ...