Contents -- Foreword -- I. Foundations -- 1. Exceptionless moral norms: few but strategic -- 2. Witnessed to by faith -- 3. Part of the theology of human fulfillment -- 4. Rejected when human replaces divine providence -- 5. No narrowing of horizons -- 6. Choice, reflexivity, and proportionalism -- 7. Protecting changeless aspects of human fulfillment -- 8. Negative norms but positive and revelatory -- 9. Rejection: some motivations and implications -- II. Clarifications -- 1. Intrinsece mala: acts always wrong, but not by definition -- 2. Specified neither evaluatively nor physically / behaviorally -- 3. Opposed to reason and integral human fulfillment -- 4. Worse than suffering wrong -- 5. Proportionalist justifications: incoherent with rationally motivated free choice -- 6. The central case: intentional harm, always unreasonable -- 7. Deadly defense and death penalty: not necessarily proportionalist -- III. Christian Witness -- 1. Free choice: a morally decisive reality -- 2. Evil: not to be chosen that good may come -- 3. Actions: morally specified by their objects (intentions) -- 4. Intending human harm: never acceptable for God or man -- 5. Counterexamples -- 6. Responsibility for side effects: other principles and norms -- IV. Challenge and Response -- 1. Contraception and the general denial of absolutes -- 2. Historical and ecclesiological skirmishes -- 3. The main action: in philosophical theology -- 4. Prudence misconceived: the absolutes aesthetically dissolved -- 5. A summary conclusion -- Index.