

Associate Professor of Moral Theology
Executive Director, Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health
Simboli Hall 327
Telephone: 617-552-2285
Email: daniel.daly.3@bc.edu
Virtue Ethics; Issues in Contemporary Clinical Medical Ethics; Social Structures and Moral Agency
Daniel J. Daly is Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry and the founding Executive Director of the Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health. The Center is sponsored by the Catholic Health Association and provides theological and ethical guidance to Catholic healthcare. He is the co-host of the podcast Ethics on Call.
Dr. Daly earned his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics at Boston College in 2008. Before joining the CSTM he was Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. He served as the Theology department chair for five of his thirteen years at Saint Anselm.
His academic work focuses on healthcare ethics, virtue ethics, and the ethics of social structures.
His monograph, The Structures of Virtue and Vice, was published in 2021 by Georgetown University and Press and was awarded First Place in the Theological and Philosophical Studies category by the Catholic Media Association in July of 2022.
Although his role as Executive Director is his full-time position, he continues to teach one course a semester at the CSTM.
Peer-Reviewed Book
The Structures of Virtue and Vice (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2021).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters聽
鈥淧athways of Holiness: Institutions, Moral Formation, and the Virtues,鈥 in聽Bothering to Love: James F. Keenan鈥檚 Retrieval and Reinvention of Catholic Ethics, eds. Christopher P. Vogt and Kate Ward (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2024), 59-70.
鈥淓xemplarist Medical Ethics,鈥澛Journal of Medical Ethics聽50 (2024):聽447-451.
鈥淪ubstance and Style in the Prolife Discourse鈥 Journal of Moral Theology 12, no.1 (2023): 135-138.
鈥淎 Principlist Approach to Multiple Heart Valve Replacements for Patients with Intravenous Drug Use-Induced Endocarditis,鈥澛Journal of Medical Ethics聽48, no. 10 (2022): 685-688. It was selected as the 鈥淓ditor鈥檚 Choice鈥 by the editor for 鈥渋ts special interest or importance.鈥
鈥淭he Virtuous Hospital: A Catholic Organizational Healthcare Ethics,鈥澛The Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Administration聽8, no. 2 (2022): 1-12.
聽鈥淰irtue Ethics and Action Guidance,鈥 Theological Studies 82 (2021): 565-582.聽
鈥淗ow Many Heart Valves Is One Person Owed? The Ethics of Multiple Valve Transplants for Patients with IVDU-Induced Endocarditis,鈥 Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 41 (2021): 149-167.
聽鈥淪ocial Structures and Public Health Ethics,鈥 in Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health: Climate Change, Pollution, and the Health of the Poor, ed. Philip J. Landrigan and Andrea Vicini (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021), 84-95.
聽鈥淰irtue Ethics,鈥 in T&T Clark Companion to Christian Ethics, ed. Tobias Winright (New York: T&T Clark, 2021), 59-70.聽
聽鈥淕uidelines for Rationing Treatment during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Catholic Approach,鈥 Health Progress 101 (2020): 50-56, (reprinted in Japanese in Shingaku Digest 129 [2020]: 116-24).
鈥淐ritical Realism, Virtue Ethics, and Moral Agency,鈥 in Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture, ed. Daniel Finn (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2020), 89-101.
鈥淲ho Counts as a Person?鈥 in Incarnate Grace: Catholic Perspectives on Health Care, ed. Charlie Bouchard (Saint Louis: Catholic Health Association Press, 2017), 93-108.
鈥淐onfronting the 鈥楴ormative Abyss鈥: The Challenges and Resources in Catholic Ethics for the Global Age,鈥 in Decentering Discussions on Religion and State鈥 Emerging Narratives, Challenging Perspectives, ed. Sargon Donabed and Autumn Grant (New York: Lexington Books, 2015), 157-77.聽
鈥淥bama and the Common Good鈥 in The American Election 2012: Contexts and Consequences, ed. R. Ward Holder and Peter Josephson (New York: Palgrave, 2014), 279-90.聽
聽鈥淯nreasonable Means: Proposing a New Category for Catholic End of Life Ethics,鈥 Christian Bioethics 19 (2013): 40-59.
鈥淔rom Nature to Second Nature: The Relationship of the Natural Law and Acquired Virtues in the Summa theologiae,鈥 Angelicum 88 (2011): 693-715.
鈥淪tructures of Virtue and Vice,鈥 New Blackfriars 92 (2011): 341-57.
鈥淭he Relationship of Virtues and Norms in the Summa theologiae,鈥 Heythrop Journal 51 (2010): 214-29.聽
鈥淧rudence and the Debate on Death and Dying,鈥 Health Progress 88 (2007): 49-54.
Founding Editor, Journal of Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health (launching in late 2026)