John Kavanaugh, S.J. (Ph.D., Washington U.-St. Louis, 1971) is Director of the Ethics Across the Curriculum Program. Ordained a priest in the Society of Jesus in 1971, he obtained a doctorate in Social Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis. He has frequently published on issues of consumerism, intrinsic value, and ethics of life. He is the author of :

• Human Realization: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Man (1970), Following Christ in a Consumer Society (1981)
• Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ (1991),
• A three book series entitled The World Embodied: Meditations on the Sunday Scriptures (1996-98).
• His newest book is entitled Who Counts as Persons: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing (2001).
• A regular columnist for America magazine, he is also an award winning syndicated columnist.