Table of Contents

The declaration on religious freedom / John Courtney Murray -- Religious liberty / Emile-Joseph De Smedt -- Catholicism and democracy : conflict, change, and collaboration / Bryan Hehir -- Churches and human rights : from hostility/reluctance to acceptability / Charles E. Curran -- Reflections on slavery / Diana Hayes -- The correction of the common Catholic teaching concerning slavery by Pope Leo XIII / John Francis Maxwell -- Usury : the amendment of papal teaching by theologians / John T. Noonan, Jr.-- The right to silence : magisterial development / Patrick Granfield -- Catholicism and capital punishment / Avery Dulles -- To kill or not to kill : the Catholic Church and the problem of the death penalty / E. Christian Brugger -- The changing anthropological bases of Catholic social ethics / Charles E. Curran -- What ever happened to octogesima adveniens?" / Mary Elsbernd -- Marriage and sexuality : magisterial teaching from 1918 to the present / John Gallagher -- Magisterial teaching on marriage 1880-1986 : historical constancy or radical development?" / Joseph A. Selling -- Family and Catholic social teaching / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Encountering the other : the modern papacy on women / Christine E. Gudorf -- Development in moral doctrine / John T. Noonan, Jr. -- Catholic medical ethics : a tradition which progresses / Raphael Gallagher -- Progress in the moral tradition / Marciano Vidal.