Lisa Sowle Cahill is an American ethicist, and J. Donald Monan Professor at Boston College.
Lisa Sowle Cahill's work focuses on an attempt to discuss the complexity of moral issues while lowering tensions about theological disagreements between the Church and society.
James Gustafson introduced her to Richard McCormick SJ and Father Charles Curran, both of whom have influenced her own career in moral theology.
She has taught at Boston College since 1976 and has been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, and a visiting professor of Catholic theology at Yale University.
[3] Sometimes called a feminist theologian and sometimes a bioethicist, Cahill has published over two hundred articles and has worked on as many as fifteen books.