Charles E. Curran,a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Rochester, New York, is Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University. He was the first recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award for Theology and has served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Society of Christian Ethics, and the American Theological Society. In 2003, Curran received the Presidential Award of the College Theology Society for a lifetime of scholarly achievements in moral theology, and in 2005, Call to Actiona reform movement of 25,000 Catholicspresented him with its leadership award. He is the author of The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II… and Catholic Social Teaching, 1891-Present, both published by Georgetown University Press.Kristin E. Heyer is an assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University