SEXUAL ETHICS BIBLIOGRAPHY - University of San Francisco

Good selection of various Bishops' Pastoral statements on the Aids crisis is collected in this
first sample issue.
Cimperman, Maria, O.S.U. When God’s People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics.
Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2005.
Sr. Cimperman proposes integrating spirituality and morality through the virtues of fidelity,
prudence, hope, and solidarity.
Clark, Michael J. Defying the Darkness: Gay Theology in the Shadows. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press,
1997.
Investigates the question of suffering of gay and lesbians in the age of HIV/AIDS and points
to inadequacies of traditional Christian answers to such suffering.
Reviewed by Laurel C. Schneider in Religious Studies Review 24 (July 1998): 276.
Cohen, Elliot D., and Davis, Michael., ed. Aids: Crisis in Professional Ethics. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1994.
Crowley, Paul G., S.J. “Rahner’s Christian Pessimism: A Response to the Sorrow of AIDS.”
Theological Studies 58 (1997): 286-307.
Crowley did his doctoral studies under Michael Buckley at the Graduate Theological Union,
and teaches theology at Santa Clara University.
Drane, James F. "Condoms, AIDS & Catholic Ethics: Open to the Transmission of Death"
Commonweal 118 (22 March 1991): 188-192.
Drane, a professor of clinical medical ethics at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, shares
difficulties on the application of the term "intrinsically evil" to any and all condom use.
Drane suggests a more careful investigation of the moral issues involved, a full
understanding of the natural law tradition, and the use of the principles of the double effect
and counseling the lesser evil would all lead to a conclusion that in certain cases condom use
in marriage would be morally licit.
Dube, Musa W., and Kanyoro, Musimbi, eds. Grant Me Justice! HIV/AIDS and Gender Readings
of the Bible. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2005.
Looks at how Bible-reading communities can use the Bible for liberation in the HIV/AIDS
struggle, by looking at how the Bible affirms life, the right to healing, care, and human rights
of all.
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