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  • Thinking with the Church

 Essential Texts for the Catholic Home Library

Other references

• Catholic Dictionary
• Catholic Encyclopedia Online

Advocacy Tools

Contacting your legislator
Find your legislator
Letters to the editor
Guidelines for advocating on Church property
Find bills

Participation

• Catholics for the Common Good Institute Leadership Training 
• Catherine of Siena Institute/ Called and Gifted Workshops

Life -

Abortion

Links

• American Association of Pro Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Find a pro-life Ob/Gyn

Healing after abortion

• Hope After Abortion - Project Rachel
• National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing
• Rachael's Vineyard
• AbortionChangesYou.com

Advocacy Resources

• The Second Look Project (USCCB) facts and ads about abortion.
• Abortion's Harm to Women (pdf) Elliot Institute and Related Resources
• Reversing the Gender Gap
  

Embryo Protection and Cloning

Stem cell research is good
Breakthough in stem cell research
New source - amniotic fluid

Links

• USCCB Embryo Protection Fact Sheets
• Stem Cell Research
• The Center for Bioethics and Culture
• National Catholic Bioethics Center
• BioEdge

Euthanasia / Physician Assisted Suicide

Links

• International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
• Californians Against Assisted Suicide

Genocide

Sudan Cauldren of Tragedy

Links

• Remembering Sudan (CRS)

Family-

Promote Marriage Resources

Building a marriage culture

• For Your Marriage - USCCB
• Joy Filled Marriage
• Stand with Children
• MarriagePrep.com
• Marriage Missionaries
• Exceptional Marriages /Pastoral Solutions Institute
• Institute for Marital Healing 
• Catholic Therapists
• Retrouvaille
• Child Healing (help for parents in dealing with emotional problems with children)
  

Formation

• Stand with Children Formation: Formation for discussing issues related to love, marriage, family and sexuality with family members and friends. 
• Resources from Janet Smith, PhD, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
• Theology of the Body
  • Christopher West
  • Theology of the Body Institute
  • Theology of the Body.net
  • Theology of the Body - Catholic Exchange
    

Policy Tools and Resources

• Marriage Watch -- The Marriage Law Project, Catholic University
• Marriage Law Foundation
• The National Marriage Project - University of Virginia
• Center for Marriage and Families
• Report- The Future of Family Law by the Council on Family Law
• Institute on Marriage and Family Canada
• Family Choices

Pornography

• Who Does It Hurt - Porn Addiction Help

Parental Choice in Education

Homeschooling

• Home School Legal Defense Association
• National Association of Catholic Homes and Educators (NACHA)
• NACHA Home School Resource (links)
• More Catholic Home School Links
• Mother of Divine Grace
• Seton Home Study School
• Kolbe Academy Home School
• Traditions of Roman Catholic Homes

Homeschooling-State

• California Association of Private School Organizations
• Private and Home Educators of California

Catholic Feminism

• California Women's Forum
• Women of the Third Millenium
• Dignity of Women
• Speakers on the dignity and vocation of women
• Phases of Womanhood
  
• Women of Grace

Freedom - Coming soon

Social Conditions

Sudan Cauldron of Tragedy

Links

• Catholic Relief Services
• Remembering Sudan (CRS)
• Address to the UN Commission for Social Development Vatican
• Address to the UN Commission on Human Rights Vatican

Religious Communities

• Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist 
• Sisters of Bon Secour
• Daughters of St Paul; Pauline Faithways
• Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart, Los Angeles