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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

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.

Children of Divorce
From Religion and Ethics Online: It's been estimated that a quarter of today's young adults are children of divorce - people who grew up in broken homes. And for many of them, the breakup of their parents' marriage had a profound - and negative - impact on their religious lives as they grew into adulthood. Deborah Potter reports

Crime and Sacrifice: What the cross tells us about capital punishment
At Easter, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from death and the tomb. We praise God who raised, and thereby vindicated, the falsely accused Innocent One who three days earlier was executed by crucifixion at the hands of an occupying Roman military force. Considered one of the cruelest, most humiliating methods of capital punishment, the cross was reserved by the Romans for slaves who were thieves and for rebels who were not Roman citizens.

Daniel Callahan & Bioethics
From Commonweal magazine: Medical progress is certainly an important social good, but it must be weighed against competing social goods, such as education or decent housing.

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