{"id":24030,"date":"2008-10-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/keeping-informed-on-life-issue\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T11:00:00","slug":"keeping-informed-on-life-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/10\/keeping-informed-on-life-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Informed on Life Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Grenchik, the Executive Director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities<\/a><\/i> at the
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October is Respect Life Month (as well as Breast Cancer Awareness month) and there are 3 weeks until the Presidential election. I therefore, think it’s important to review some fundamental teachings about the human person, the right to life, and our Catholic faith.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Justin Cardinal Rigali’s October letter for Respect Life Month <\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The consistent, clear teaching<\/a> of the Church on life<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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On the Fundamental Right to Life<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Gospel of Life<\/a>, Pope John Paul IIs 1995 encyclical offering us what the Church has consistently taught with regard to life issues.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1974 Declaration on Procured Abortion <\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Read the Life Insight<\/a> newsletter <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Get involved<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Knights of Columbus have a number pro life activities<\/a> through the year so make a connection with them to see how you can be of service.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Also, The National Catholic Bioethics Center<\/a><\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Catholic Information Service<\/a> has XX booklets that explore some of these pertinent life issues. The text of the booklets are given here in pdf format but you can also get a hardcopy of the booklet by emailing Michele at cis@kofc.org<\/a>.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Catholic Sexual Ethics<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Understanding Stem Cell Research<\/a> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Child: Begotten not Manmade<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Sisters<\/a>There is an order of Catholic sisters whose vocation is work on life issues. The Sisters of Life<\/a> founded by Cardinal John O’Connor in 1991 in NYC is a vibrant community dedicated to “the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of every human life. Like all religious communities, [they] take the three traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience … [and] also are consecrated under a special, fourth vow to protect and enhance the sacredness of human life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tom Grenchik, the Executive Director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities at the United States Catholic Conference, and his staff, have a resourceful website.  His office ably assists those who want to be informed and involved.   October is Respect Life Month (as well as Breast Cancer Awareness month) and there are 3 weeks until … Continue reading Keeping Informed on Life Issues<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}