Curran, C.E,. The Catholic Moral Tradition Today: a Synthesis. (Georgetown UP 1999).

I think the author is a priest, but there is no indication of it. We read at Malachi 2:7f.: "For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the lord of hosts. But you have departed out of the way and have caused many to stumble at the law".
It is difficult to keep one's temper at the lack of precision in the vocabulary. The author is not authorized to make a presentation of the Catholic moral tradition. His is but one man's take on it. He relies on rhetorical devices rather than clarity: "liberation" theology, whatever that means; "contra-ception", aimed at the ex post facto of copulation occluding the role of the impregnator; the (I cannot refrain from saying) "smarmy" effort to be "with it" in using the feminine personal person as though he has any idea of what it is like to be a woman; an appeal to the Shoah. He cites Karl Barth, and Father Kueng, with no sense of how German sounds in the ears of those who were caught up in the catastrophe.
His is a professor's take, academic, with no real sense of the personal problems and difficulties felt by those for whom he, as a priest, is meant to be a shepherd dog. He makes claim to be a prophet. The comfort of his tenured position belies him. He speaks of fire, but does not know that it is hot.

[I note that the book is published by a Jesuit "university". That it would not have received a nihil obstat by the local bishop explains the Jesuit resistance to "interference" by bishops in their ideas of education, which are more like indoctrination. It seems that their predecessors complained to the Secretary of State (Roger Taney) when the local bishop complained to Rome about their goings-on. They called it appealing to a foreign power. Cuius regio eius religio lives still).