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Pope John Paul II called on the thousands of enthusiastic young Catholics gathered before him in Denver in August to reject an American 'culture of death' that sanctions abortion and [...]

When Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum a hundred years ago, liberalism was the dominant political and economic doctrine in Continental Europe. Socialism, its great historical antagonist, had just entered [...]

WE INFLUENCE OUR OWN EVOLUTION and that of the planet either directly or indirectly. And nothing shows this better than the course of modern gene research and its challenge to [...]

The question of a new ethic of abortion is one I will be approaching from a Catholic, feminist, liberationist perspective. Catholic, in the sense that my religious tradition is Roman [...], From a liberationist, feminist, and Catholic point of view, this article attempts to understand the decision of abortion. People are constantly testing theft principles and values against the question of abortion. Advances in technology, the rise of communitarianism and the rejection of individualism, and the commodification of children are factors in the way in which the abortion debate is being constructed in society. The paper offers solutions to end the ugliness of the abortion debate by suggesting that we would be able to progress further on the issue of abortion if we looked for the good in the opposing viewpoint. The article continues with a discussion of Catholics For a Free Choice's position on abortion, and notes firstly that there is no firm position within the Catholic Church on when the fetus becomes a person; secondly that the principle of probablism in Roman Catholicism holds that where the church cannot speak definitively on a matter of fact (in this case, on the personhood of the fetus), the consciences of individual Catholics must be primary and respected, and thirdly that the absolute prohibition on abortion by the church is not infallible. In conclusion, only the woman herself can make the abortion decision. (Journal of Medical Ethics 2001;27 suppl II:ii24-ii27) Keywords: Catholic; conscience; feminist; fetus; abortion; technology

Issue casts long shadow in halls of government and in Vatican, obscures counter right to health Mark Waymack made an important contribution to the stem cell debate with his focus [...]

IN THE LECTURE HE GAVE when he received the Nobel prize for literature in 1970, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn remarked about totalitarian states: 'Violence does not live alone and is not capable [...]

Church condemns practice that has accounted for 300,000 births worldwide Dawn Meadows had been married just a year when she and her husband decided to undergo in vitro fertilization at [...]

Breakthrough reveals cells from adults may be as useful as embryonic cells Stem cells, hailed as the greatest medical miracle since antibiotics, yet the new lightning rod for the abortion [...]

In my last column, 'Vouchers: The Heart of the Matter' (May/June 1997), I reviewed Joseph Claude Harris' book The Cost of Catbolic Parishes and Schools, which noted but did not [...]

LIKE MILLIONS OF OTHERS, I spent hours watching the televised ceremonies during Pope John Paul II's visit to the East Coast last fall and shared, even at a distance, in [...]

`If someone becomes pregnant and decides to have a baby rather than have an abortion, that may be a moral decision. So I wouldn't say that everybody who becomes pregnant [...]

Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating resigned last month as chair of the U.S. bishops' National Review Board, which monitors the enforcement of their sexual-abuse policy adopted a year ago in [...]

Two of the most troubling aspects of institutional Catholicism are a lack of compassion for its own and a reluctance to allow alternatives, even when these are clearly within the [...]

Somewhere in the curriculum of Catholic high schools in Camden, N.J., we presume there is a course that covers the church's teachings on labor, on the dignity of work, on [...]

Given Pope John Paul II's recent admonitions to U.S. Catholics to work harder on behalf of the marginalized and given the political climate's continued drift rightward, it appears increasingly clear [...]

THE NEW FEDERAL CRIME BILL enacted into law late last year greatly expanded the number of capital offenses. The actual business of executing offenders, however, still remains primarily a matter [...]

Is the Pope a Catholic? Or rather, is his interpretation of the Church's teaching on abortion questionable philosophy and dubious science? The question is hardly new. Catholic teaching on abortion [...]

A woman whose damaged uterus could pose a severe threat to her health in the event of a future pregnancy is not permitted to have a tubal ligation or hysterectomy [...]

NEW YORK - The Roman Catholic Church became the focal point of disagreement here as it continues to object to major sections of a U.N document being negotiated here this [...]

Forgotten or buried inside most newspapers and receiving scant, if any, coverage on television last week, was a report with mind-numbing implications for the planet. A new study shows the [...]

Try as we might to starve, shoot, bomb and club each other into oblivion, and no matter how many deadly disasters and lethal epidemics we endure, there is, according to [...]

DAYTON, Ohio -- Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Americans seem less frightened by the proliferation of nuclear weapons than they were in the early 1980s, said Auxiliary Bishop [...]

STUNNED by the collapse of the socialist idea, socialists in the West are eager to change the subject, to, well, something like 'the sins of capitalism.' That, in any case, [...]

Hell is much in the news. From a jail cell in upstate New York, where he was serving time for antiabortion activities, Roman Catholic Bishop Austin Vaughan warned Governor Mario [...]