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Selections from the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Selections from the Catechism on Life. English translation with facing official Latin text: Catechism_Life.doc
Selections from the Catechism on Creation, Fall, Matrimony, and Sexual Morality. English translation with facing official Latin text: Catechism.doc

 SCDF: Donum Vitae
English translation: SCDF Donum Vitae (Repr Tech).doc
English and Latin: Donum_Vitae_Latin-English.doc

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - “Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day”.

  Pope Francis

  “Interview with Fr. Spadaro, SJ” (August, 2013)
  2013_08-Interview_Spadero
Describes Church as a “field hospital;” recommends highlighting context for difficult moral issues.

  “Address to Catholic Physicians” (September 20, 2013)
  2013_08-Catholic_Doctors
Unborn children have the face of Christ, as do the disabled, the elderly, and the infirm.

 


  Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul II: Evangelium Vitae
English translation: Evangelium_Vitae.doc
English and Latin: Ev_Vit-Lat-Engl.doc
“On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life”: Encyclical of Pope John Paul II on moral issues concerning human reproduction.

 Pope John Paul II - Reflections on “Humanae Vitae”
JP2AudHumVit84.doc

Daily Audiences given July-November, 1984, commenting on “Humanae Vitae”

 Pope John Paul II, “The Theology of the Body, Part One: The Original Unity of Man and Woman”
1A_Orig_Unity_7980_Gen.doc
Pope John Paul II, “The Theology of the Body, Part One: The Original Unity of Man and Woman.” Catechesis on the Book of Genesis (General Audiences 1979-1980)

 Pope John Paul II, “The Theology of the Body, Part One (cont.) ‘Blessed are the Pure of Heart’“
1B_Blessed_Pure_80_Ser_Mt.doc
Pope John Paul II, “The Theology of the Body, Part One (cont.) ‘Blessed are the Pure of Heart’: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount” (General Audiences, 1980).


  Pope Paul VI

 Pope Paul VI - Humanae Vitae
Humanae_VitaeSmith_2.doc

Latin and English texts of Humanae Vitae

Selections from Ford, The Prenatal Person
Ford_selections.doc

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace : Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
2004_compend_soc-teachings.doc

A compilation of the social teachings of the Catholic Church.  See 231-237 on Marriage, fertility, artificial procreation,

A Theological Debate on ANT-OAR
ANT-OAR_debate

Brugger and Walker on the permissibility of this technique as a means of procuring pluripotent stem cells..

 SCDF: Declaration on Procured Abortion
SCDF Declar Procur Abor.doc
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - “Declaration on Procured Abortion”; contains authoritative argument for protecting life from conception.

 SCDF: Donum Vitae
SCDF Donum Vitae Repr Tech.doc
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - “Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day”.

 SCDF: On Uterine Isolation
SCDF Uterine Isolation QA.doc
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - On the morality of surgical procedures that intentionally result in sterility.

 Vademecum for Confessors on Marriage
PCFVademecum_on_Marriage.doc

“Vademecum for Confessors Concerning Some Aspects of the Conjugal Life” from the Pontifical Council for the Family

Selections from the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism.doc
Selections from the Catechism on Creation, Fall, Matrimony, and Sexual Morality. English translation with facing official Latin text.

In Defense of Natural Law
Nat_Law-Art.DOC
Article defending natural law by J.S. Grabowski and M. J.Naughton

Gregg, “Dignitatis Humanae and the Catholic Human Rights ‘Revolution’”
Human_Rights_and_Dignitatis_Humanae_.doc
Article by Samuel Gregg, “Dignitatis Humanae and the Catholic Human Rights ‘Revolution’: Past Successes, Future Problems”. The author points to serious consequences of shifting a moral/theological focus solely towards the concept of “rights”.

 Abortion for the Purpose of Gender-Selection in India
Sex-selection abortions-India.doc
Article from the New York Times describing the widespread practice of using abortion as a means of insuring that a couple will have a male child.

 Adult Stem Cells for Tissue Repair — A New Therapeutic Concept?
AdultStemCells NEJM.doc
Article from the New England Journal of Medicine (2003) describing the present state of adult stem-cell research and possible future applications.

 Growth and transplantation of a custom vascularised bone graft in a man
P H Warnke, I N G Springer
Adult_stem_jaw_rib_lancet.doc
Article from Lancet describing the growth of a new jaw for a man, apparently using bone stem cells.

Selections from The Soul of the Embryo by David Allan Jones:
Jones-selections.doc

Selections from Human Sexuality, An All-Embracing Gift, by Gerald Coleman,
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