CCG Feature Articles

Lay Participation

• NEW  For Pope Francis, the laity must be formed for their mission in the world 
• Liberals and Conservatives Apply Social Teaching Principles Differently
•  Abp Chaput's Message for Evangelization of Culture 
• Video  The Common Good and the Lay Apostolate
•  Free Will, Conscience, and Moral Choice
•  Achieving Solidarity with Victims Through Christ
• The Vocation of the Laity
• Will, Reason, Hope. Which Comes First?
• *Separation of Church and State*
• *Danger of Criticizing Bishops and Priests*
• *Marriage and the Laity's Responsibility*
• Stop Dozing - Get Involved
• How to Conduct Politics as a Catholic
• * Roots of Discrimination
• Archbishop Chaput Criticizes JFK's Rigid Secularism
•  Why do we have trouble communicating?
  

Marriage and Family

• Getting Scientific About Love
  
•  A Right to a Child?
  
• Video Marriage and Children -- Reshaping the Dialogue to Refect the Human Reality
• Marriage is More Complicated Than 
  "I Do" (SSM Issues re CA Prop 8)
• Video Prospects for Marriage and Family in the Current Legal Environment
• The Right to Privacy and the Slipery Slope
• Make Love, Not War
• *Marriage and the Laity's Responsibility*
• The Meaning of Marriage
• *The Family, Community of Peace (Pope Benedict XVI)
• The “Good of the Spouses” and Marriage as a Vocation to Holiness 

Life - General

• The Right to Privacy and the Slipery Slope

Life - Abortion

• Is Late-Term Abortion Ever Necessary?

Life - Embryonic Stem Cells

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

  Life - Genocide

• Sudan Cauldren of Tragedy
• Genocide and Extreme Poverty
  
  Life - Death Penalty
  

• Summary of Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty
  

Thinking with the Church

• NEW Video Bishop Barron on Capitalism and Social Teaching
• Changing Language is Changing the Culture 
• Video A Catholic Ecology, a Human Ecology
• *The Foundations of the Church's Social Doctrine*
  
• Pope Benedict on Subsidiarity and Solidarity
• Dissolving Silos in the Church
  
•  What is Catholic Social Teaching?
• * A Reflection on Ethics and Social Justice- Bp. S. Cordileone
  

Spiritual Life - Formation

•  Vatican Cardinal Warns Priests Not to Let Humanity Overshadow God 
•  Pope Benedict Calls Eucharist 'Antidote' to Modern Ills
  
• Looking for Love
  
• Philosophy for Beginners - Theology of Death
• On Judging Others
  
• Existance of Free Choice: Defined Church Teaching

Lessons in Evangelization

•  Francis Beckwith and the Truth

Human Sexuality

• Love and Responsibility: Summary
• The deeper meaning of romantic love (video)
  
• The Whys and Wherefores of Catholic Sexual Ethics.

Foundational Reading for Marriage Protagonists 
(from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church)

• God's Plan of Love for Humanity 
• The Family, the Vital Cell of Society
• Subsidiarity
• Rights of the Child (see section b., "Specification of Rights")