Six principles to consider when working with Roman Catholic clients.

Roman Catholic beliefs produce characteristic neural responses to moral dilemmas.

This study provides exploratory evidence about how behavioral and neural responses to standard moral dilemmas are influenced by religious belief. Eleven Catholics and 13 Atheists (all female) judged 48 moral dilemmas. Differential neural activity between the two groups was found in precuneus and in prefrontal, frontal and temporal regions. Furthermore, a double dissociation showed that Catholic...

Culturing Fastidious Prokaryotes—Points to Consider when Working with Citrus Huanglongbing or Greening

The fi rst of the fastidious prokaryotic plant pathogens to be grown in axenic culture was the phloem-limited Spiroplasma citri, which causes stubborn disease of citrus. Other fastidious prokaryotic plant pathogens followed and include Spiroplasma kunkelii (corn stunt) and Spiroplasma phoeniceum (periwinkle yellows). The vast majority of spiroplasmas are associated with arthropods and do not ca...

When Institutions Collide: The Competing Forces of Hospitals Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church

For centuries, the Catholic Church has been a major social actor in the provision of health services, particularly health care delivered in hospitals. Through a confluence of powerful environmental forces at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the future of Catholic health care is threatened. Although United States Catholic hospitals are a separate case of private, nonprofit hospitals, t...

Roman Catholic Views of Personal and Social Health

The development of the Roman Catholic teachings on suicide.