Author: Gerard M. Verschuuren
Human beings are born with an innate
sense of
right and wrong, yet the complicated world we live in constantly
interferes with our natural understanding. And so we live in a time of widely
divergent opinions about right and wrong, life and death, sexuality and sex,
pro-life and pro-choice, prolonging life and shortening life. What we need now
more than ever is a moral compass by which to steer.
In Matters
of Life and Death, Gerard Verschuuren means to provide the
contemporary reader with just such a moral compass by unflinchingly examining
the pressing issues of today—such as abortion, genetic manipulation,
infertility treatments, gender change, and aid in dying. His approach speaks to
the Catholic ideal of “formation of conscience,” which is sorely needed to
orient ourselves in our fractured political landscape. This book does not so
much introduce a new method of navigation as reacquaint the reader with the
precepts the Church has long provided as a means to hone our faculties of moral
judgment.