Faithful Citizenship – Bishop’s Document --

Racism

v Brothers and Sisters to Us -- U.S. Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on Racism, 1979

v Notable quotations from Catholic social teaching on the theme of Racism

v MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II FOR THE 89th WORLD DAY OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES 2003

v The Church and Racism: Towards a More Fraternal Society 1988 document by the Pontifical Commission Justice and Peace

v A Pastoral Statement on Racial Justice 1992 document by the New York State Catholic Bishops

v Healing Racism Through Faith and Truth 1998 Pastoral Letter by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia

v Dwell In My Love 2001 Pastoral Letter by Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago

v Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech”

v Martin Luther King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail

v The View from the Barbershop:The Church and African-American Culture Article by Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Lake Charles, LA, first appeared in America in 1998

v HateWatch Check out these sites: White Supremacists, White Power Music, Racist Skinheads, Black Racialists, NeoNazis/Anti-Semitism, Anti-Arab/Moslem, Hate Books Online, Monitoring Hate, Internet Providers that have a "no hate page policy", Who's Who in Hate

v Hate Music Articles

v Hate Crime Report -- Department of Justice

v Prophets of the Apocalypse: White Supremacy and the Theology of Christian Identity Read how Christianity and the Bible are twisted to support white supremacist racism

JUST WAR

v Pacem in Terris – Peace on Earth – Vatican document

v Vatican II on war – Gaudium et Spes

v The Challenge of Peace – US Bishop’s Document

v John Paul II on War in Iraq

v Just War Theory – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

v 50 facts about Nuclear Weapons

v Aquinas on War

v Atomic Bombings Not Needed – article on Hiroshima

v Hiroshima – Arguments Against

v US Strategic Bombing Survey -- 1946

v Why Truman Dropped the Bomb? (pro dropping bomb article)

v Pro’s and Con’s of Dropping Bomb article

v Pro’s and Con’s of War in Iraq

v Bombing of Dresden – Wikipedia Article

v Jesus and the Bible on “Peace”

v Dorothy Day on War and Peace

v Thomas Merton on Peace

v Thomas Merton: “Blessed are the Meek”

v Einstein on Peace

v Martin Luther King on Peace

v St. Francis on Peace

v Geneva Conventions

v Link to Nazi War Crimes Tribunals – Nuremburg Trials

v Link to Nazi War Crimes Tribunals and General Information on Holocaust

v International Law on Bombing of Civilians

v Current Wars in World – Year 2000

v Moral Clarity in a Time of War – George Weigel

v Iraq – Then and Now

v Just War – As it was and is

v “Victory is Not an Option” Editorial in Washington Post on Iraq War

v “The Choice on Iraq” Joe Lieberman article in Wall Street Journal on Iraq War

Bioethics: Stem Cell Research, IVF and Genetic Engineering

v Donum Vitae: INSTRUCTION ON RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE IN ITS ORIGIN AND ON THE DIGNITY OF PROCREATION – Official Vatican Document (1987).

v Medical Problems of In Vitro Fertilization Techniques

v Couples Ask: “What’s Wrong with In-vitro Fertilization?”

v Reproductive Technology

v Babies Deserve Better – What You Need to Know if you are Struggling with Infertility

v Brave New Babies – Newsweek article

v Brave New Genetic World

v “My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor” Washington Post Editorial

v The Threat of Human Genetic Engineering

v The Case Against Perfection – Harvard University Professor against Genetic Engineering

v When do Human Beings Begin? (Science article)

v Yet another Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough – November, 2006 article

v Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth

v The Basics of Stem Cells

v Pope Benedict on Stem Cell Research – Sept. 2006

v “Do No Harm” -- Focus on Stem Cell Research Web Page (lots of good articles)

v Biospin – Ignoring Advancements in Adult Stem Cell Research

v Embryology: Inconvenient Facts

v Misinformation Stem Cells

v Modern Genetics is Eugenics

v Placentas may Break Embryonic Stem Cell Deadlock

v For Athletes, the Next Fountain of Youth? Adult Stem Cell Research Development (NT TIMES, 2007)

v Adult Stem Cells Helping Heart Attack Victims

v Pioneering Stem Cell Surgery Announced -- Adult Stem Cell Research breakthrough (Nov. 2008).

v 75 New Reasons to Consider Adult Stem Cell Research -- Richard Doeflinger, USCCB

v Animal Rights vs. Human Rights

v Biotech New World – Wesley Smith

Additional Articles on Stem Cell Research and Cloning – US Bishops

Cloning

v The Ethics of Cloning

v Soulless Clones and Spineless Men

v The Inhuman Use of Human Beings

v The View of the Vatican on Human Cloning

v Reflections on Cloning -- Vatican

v Brave New World of Aldous Huxley

v “Brave New World” by Chapter – web link

v Cloning and Historic Parallels

v When Do Human Beings Begin?

v Why Human Cloning is Immoral

v Cloning Slide Show

Abortion

“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching people to love, but to use violence to get what they want. That's why the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion.”

--Mother Teresa