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Morality

A Council at Trent
Catholic moralists from over seventy countries are gathering in the city of Trent, the same city in which the Council held 450 years ago decisively shaped the outline of our discipline by creating the field of moral theology for seminary training of future confessors. Since the Second Vatican Council, that field has expanded tremendously in both participants and scope. It now includes not only priests, but also women religious and lay men and women.

A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death
Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. Conference of Bishops called for an end to the death penalty. This latest statement is a call to seize a new moment and new momentum. "This is a time to teach clearly, encourage reflection, and call for common action in the Catholic community to bring about an end to the use of the death penalty in the U.S."

Abortion/Pro-Life Issues
Abortion Reconciliation and Healing
Post-abortion support services within secular and religious settings, including Project Rachel and sponsorhip of the Healing Vision conference at Marquette University. Healing Vision is the only international conference on abortion's aftermath and its resolution.
National Office on Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing

Combatting Abortion and Euthanasia Letter of Pope John Paul II To All the World's Bishops, May 1991.
On Combatting Abortion and Euthanasia

Partial-birth abortion and Catholics
From Lay Witness online magazine, reflections by William E. May on the serious impact this issue has on Catholics.
Partial-birth abortion and Catholics

Preach to the Choir
From the Wall Street Journal: "Catholic bishops may be pro-life, but that's a message you rarely hear from the pulpit."
Preach to the Choir

Pro-Life, Anti-Death Penalty
From America Magazine, showing the interesting connection between attitudes on abortion and capital punishment.
Pro-Life, Anti-Death Penalty

America's Moral Crisis
In an Interview with President Jimmy Carter, BustedHalo.com discusses "America's Moral Crisis" with the former President - by Mike Hayes & Bill McGarvey

America, Religious Values, and the Death Penalty
The United States is still using the logic of vengeance in enforcing the death penalty, and it is the only Western country within its primary coalitions to do so. When did it start? How can it end?

At Life's Beginning
Medical innovations surrounding conception and childbirth present a challenge to church teaching. Here is an opportunity for pastoral leaders to reach out with sensitivity and compassion, ever mindful of the ultimate role God plays in our creation.

Basic Training
From U.S. Catholic: College students hold up crosses bearing names of School of Americas victims. Catholic college students get schooled in peace and protest at the annual School of the Americas vigil.

Catholic Medical Association
An organization of Catholic Physicians of the United States and Canada, whose purpose is to bring the Spirit to all that are touched by medical science and art; and assisting the Holy Father, the Bishops, and the whole Christian Community with leadership, especially with the particular knowledge, skill, and experience as Christian Physicians.

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