The UN has demanded a cease-fire and authorized military action. What moral considerations should underlie international intervention?

"Whether you act or whether you don't act, the stakes are really quite high, and that's what makes it so daunting from a moral perspective."

What did people of faith think about President Obama’s State of the Union address? Watch our panel of religion analysts assess the speech.

As major combat operations come to an end and the US completes a troop drawdown in Iraq, revisit interviews with ethicists, philosophers, scholars, and religious leaders about just war and the moral issues raised by Iraq.

"In a democracy that espouses certain moral values, we need to have accountability," says ethicist Shaun Casey. "It prepares us morally to face the future when we're facing a crisis and pressure to abandon legal and moral precedents that we've observed."

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton speaks with Shaun Casey, author of "The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy v. Nixon 1960," about the role of religion in the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s political life.

Shaun Casey, author of THE MAKING OF A CATHOLIC PRESIDENT: KENNEDY VS NIXON 1960, talks with Kim Lawton about religion's role in the 1960 presidential race.

The recent release of four Bush administration memos on US interrogation techniques has intensified public debate about the use of torture. Two ethicists discuss torture and its moral limits in an age of terror.

"Kennedy talked more about separation of church and state, because that was the attack that was launched against him. Romney’s problem is different in the sense that people see his Mormonism as exotic or esoteric, and he has to knock that down without being too explicit about what Mormon doctrine really is," says Shaun Casey, associate professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary.