About the Author

Russell B. Connors, Jr., PhD, a native Clevelander, studied Christian ethics at the Academia Alfonsiana in Rome, Italy, where he earned a doctoral degree in 1983. He served on the faculty of St. Mary Seminary in Cleveland from 1983-1995 and now teaches at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Connors was the 1990-91 Fellow in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and has served as a consultant to the ethics committees of several hospitals and nursing homes. He has published numerous articles on Christian ethics in a variety of scholarly journals, and with Patrick T. McCormick is the coauthor of Character, Choices, and Community: The Three Faces of Christian Ethics.