COURSE
DOCUMENTS.
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,
MS-Word;
Searchable PDF