This course—a joint venture between The National Catholic Bioethics Center and Catholic International University—offers students an introduction to the study of health care ethics from the Roman Catholic perspective. It begins by introducing students to foundational topics in Catholic moral theology and then focuses on contemporary and controversial health care ethics challenges across the life span. Topics include, but are not limited to, medical interventions for pregnancy complications, prenatal genetic testing, assisted reproductive technologies, assisted suicide & euthanasia, determining death (particularly brain death), and organ donation. The course also explores medical and ethical challenges posed by gender ideology, as well as Catholic pastoral and health care responses to it.