What does the Catholic Church really teach? -- Part I: Foundations -- The foundations of Christian morality -- What is morality? -- Moral philosophy and moral theology -- Does being a Christian make a difference? -- The moral act and conscience -- The moral act -- Conscience -- The mistaken conscience -- Catholic social teaching : an introduction -- Catholic social teaching : what is it and where does it come from? -- The principles of Catholic social teaching -- The strengths of Catholic social teaching -- Part II: Considering ethics in todays world -- Business ethics and the American corporation -- Business ethics and Catholic social teaching -- Principles of Catholic social teaching for business ethics -- Catholic social teaching and business ethics : the cases -- Global economic ethics : debt and structural adjustment -- Foreign debt -- Structural adjustment -- Response from Catholic social teaching -- Recent developments and hope for the future? -- Foreign aid, production and trade, and aids -- The death penalty -- A brief history of the death penalty in the United States -- The Supreme Court and the death penalty -- Arguments for and against the death penalty -- Catholic social teaching and the death penalty -- Just war and the presumption of peace -- Biblical understandings of peace -- War and peace in Catholic social teaching -- The challenge of peace -- The harvest of justice is sown in peace -- Medical ethics -- Principles governing the patient-professional relationship -- General principles regarding the provision of health care -- Medical issues at the beginning of life -- Medical issues at the end of life -- Sexual ethics -- Persons are bodies and therefore sexual beings -- Temperance -- Chastity -- Issues in sexuality.