Section I: Secular Inadequacies and Theological Contributions.- Bioethics and the Spirit of Secularism.- Minding Our Language: Metaphors and Biomedical Ethics.- Reform and Rationing: Reflections on Health Care in Light of Catholic Social Teaching.- The Post-Modern Challenge to Religious Sources of Moral Thinking.- Theology and the Rawlsian Original Position:Inventing and Discovering Moral Principles.- The Weeping Womb: Why Beneficence Needs the Still Small Voice of Compassion.- Section II: Practices, Concepts, Methods, And Theories.- Tunnel Vision on Moral Discourse? An Insider’s View of Bioethics in a Medical Center.- The Medical Futility Discussion: Some Theological Suggestions.- Overworked, But Uncritically Tested: Human Dignity and the Aid-in-Dying Debate.- Physician-Assisted Death: A Pyrrhic Victory for Secular Bioethics.- The Narrative Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas: A Question of Method.- Genetics and Freedom: A Critique of Sociobiological Claims.- A Comparative Appraisal of Theocentric and Humanistic Ethics Systems in the Clinical Encounter.- Notes on Contributors.