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Calabresi, Steven G. “How to Reverse Government Imposition of Morality: A Strategy for Eroding Roe v. Wade.” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Winter 2008) Volume 31 No 1.
Evangelium Vitae. Encyclical Letter of John Paul II. 1995. <http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0141/_INDEX.HTM>
Gibbs, Nancy. “The Grassroots Abortion War.” Time, February 15, 2007.
“Living The Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics.” A Statement from the US Catholic Bishops. December 1998.
Sullivan, Andrew. “The Case for Compromise on Abortion.” Time, February 27, 2005.
Cloning and Stem Cell Research
Harvey, John Collins. “Distinctly Human: the when, where & how of life’s beginnings.”
Commonweal 129.3 (February 8, 2002): 11-13.
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Kane, Francis. “Begotten, Not Made: The Dangers of Reproductive Technology.” Commonweal
135.3 (February 15, 2008): 16-18. <
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Lauritzen, Paul. “In the Beginning.” Commonweal 135.10 (May 23, 2008): 26-27.
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Meyer, Michael J. and Lawrence T. Nelson. “Respecting What We Destroy: Reflections on
Human Embryo Research.” The Hastings Center Report 31.1 (Jan.-Feb. 2001): 16-23.
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“The stem-cell sell.” Commonweal 128.14 (August 17, 2001): 5-6.
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Wertz, D.C. “Embryo and stem cell research in the United States: history and politics.” Gene
Therapy 9 (2002): 674-678.
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0989b845212b%40sessionmgr108>.
Bobo, Kimberley. Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing. Kansas City: Sheed &
Ward, 1986.
Ford Flaherty, Mary Ann and Richard L. Wood. “Faith and Public Life: Faith-Based Community
Organizing and the Development of Congregations.” Syosset, NY: Interfaith Funders, 2004.
“Good for the Soul, Good for the Whole: Faith-Based Community Organizing and the Renewal
of Congregations.” Syosset, NY: Interfaith Funders.
“Organizing to Win.” A National Training and Information Center Publication. August 2001
Volume I.
“Renewing Congregations: The Contribution of Faith-Based Community Organizing.” Syosset,
NY: Interfaith Funders, 2003.
“A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death.” Statement of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, 2005.
Brooks, George W. “Disarming the State’s Lethal Weapon.” 2002.
Greenhouse, Linda. “Justice Stevens Renounces Capital Punishment.” New York Times, April 18,
2008.
Greer, Megan. “Legal Injection: The Supreme Court Enters the Lethal Injection Debate.”
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (Spring 2007) Volume 30 No. 2.
Liptak, Adam. “Challenges Remain for Lethal Injection.” New York Times, April 17, 2008.
Marin, Carol. “A commuted sentence, and a life reborn.” Chicago Sun-Times, June 8, 2008.
Megivern, James J. The Death Penalty: An Historical and Theological Survey. Mahwah, NJ:
Paulist Press, 1997.
Pickert, Kate. “Lethal Injection: A Brief History.” Time, June 25, 2008.
“Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration.” Statement of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, 2000.
Ripley, Amanda. “10 Questions For Helen Prejean.” Time, February 14, 2005.
“Teachings & Resources on Capital Punishment.” Statement of the Catholic Bishops of Ohio,
1996.
“The Death Penalty Returns.” Editorial, New York Times, May 7, 2008.
Thornburgh, Nathan. “A Supreme Court Boost for Suicide?” Time, May 15, 2008.
Thornburgh, Nathan. “Lethal Injection on Trial.” Time, February 27, 2006.
Thornburgh, Nathan. “When a Killer Wants to Die.” Time, April 18, 2005.
Understanding Capital Punishment: A Guide Through the Death Penalty Debate. Washington,
DC: Death Penalty Information Center, 2003.
Von Drehle, David. “A False Consensus on Lethal Injection.” Time, April 16, 2008.
Von Drehle, David. “Death Penalty Walking.” Time, January 3, 2008.
Daily, Thomas. “Come to Me: The Church’s Response to Disabled Persons.” March 1992.
“Mentally Ill Prisoners.” Editorial, America, February 9, 2004.
Anderson, George M. “Rich Nation, Poor People.” America, February 4, 2008.
Basile, Anthony. “Crucified Between Two Thieves: Catholic Social Teaching vs. Right and
Left.” Culture Wars, January 1998.
Cavanagh, Gerald. “Money Over People.” America, July 31, 2006.
Collins, Chuck and Mary Wright. The Moral Measure of the Economy. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis,
2007.
DeCarlo, Jacqueline. Fair Trade. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007.
“Economic Justice for All.” Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy.
November 1986. <http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/international/EconomicJusticeforAll.pdf>.
George, Robert. “Making Business Moral.” First Things, October, 2008.
Mandle, Jay. “Follow the Money.” Commonweal, July 13, 2001.
O’Driscoll, Peter. “Catholic Social Teaching and ‘Mindful Markets.’” America, January 7, 2002.
<http://americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=1392>.
Peace, Bob. “The Food On Our Tables: The Flaws of US Agricultural Policy.” America, January
19, 2009.
Senser, Robert A. “Big Business and the U.N.” America, December 1, 2008.
Sibley, Angus. “The Cult of Capitalism.” Commonweal, April 25, 2008.
Basile, Anthony. “Crucified Between Two Thieves: Catholic Social Teaching vs. Right and
Left.” Culture Wars. January 1998. <http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/cw_jan98/crucified.html>.
Baum, Sandy and Jennifer Ma. “Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for
Individuals and Society.” The College Board Trends in Higher Education Series, 2007. <http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/ed_pays_2007.pdf>.
Kirsch, Irwin, Henry Braun, Kentaro Yamamoto and Andrew Sum. “America’s Perfect Storm:
Three Forces Changing Our Nation’s Future.” Policy Information Report by Educational Testing Service. Princeton, NJ: 2007.
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Landsman, Julie. “A white teacher’s perspective on race in the classroom.” Institute on Race and
Poverty. Minneapolis: 2000, 2001. <http://www1.umn.edu/irp/publications/julielandsman.html>.
“Faithful Stewards of God’s Creation: a Catholic Resource for Environmental Justice and
Climate Change.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. March 2007.
“For I was Hungry & You Gave Me Food: Catholic Reflections on Food, Farmers and
Farmworkers.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. January 2004.
“Global Climate Change: a plea for dialogue prudence and the common good.” A statement of
the US Catholic Bishops. July 2001.
Grunwald, Michael. “America’s Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency.” Time,
December 31, 2008.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. “Caring for the Earth: Why Environmentalism Needs Theology.”
Commonweal 132:13 (July 15, 2005): 16-20.
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Miller, Pamela. “God is Great, God is Green.” Star Tribune. February 2, 2007.
Peñalver, Eduardo. “They’re Getting Warmer: Religion, Politics & Climate Change.”
Commonweal 135.7 (April 11, 2008): 10-12.
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“Renewing the Earth: An Invitation to Reflection and Action on Environment in Light of
Catholic Social Teaching.” A statement of the US Catholic Bishops. November 14, 1991. < http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/ejp/bishopsstatement.shtml>.
“Struggles for Environmental Justice & Health in Chicago: An African American and Catholic
Perspective.” Chicago: John J. Egan Urban Center.
“The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good.” An International
Pastoral Letter by the Catholic Bishops of the Region. January 8, 2001.
“Always to Care, Never to Kill.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life,
February 1992. <http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5241&var_recherche=euthanasia>.
“Choosing Their Time.” Time, March 28, 2008.
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Crumbley, Bruce. “Death Sets French Euthanasia Debate.” Time, March 20, 2008.
Crumbley, Bruce. “French Euthanasia Case Rumbles On.” Time, April 1, 2008.
Crumbley, Bruce. “Making a Case for Euthanasia.” Time, March 15, 2008.
Freeman, Mary Lee. “Caring for the Dying.” Commonweal 131.2 (January 30, 2004): 11-15.
<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=79&hid=104&sid=4a620bb4-7f77-4c2a-a573-305a1038864b%40sessionmgr102>.
Gorsuch, Neil M. “The Right to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.” Harvard Journal of Law and
Public Policy 23.3 (Summer 2000): 599-710.
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e-6131-4835-9714-0c05118c5832%40sessionmgr107>.
Kingsbury, Kathleen. “When Is Sedation Really Euthanasia?” Time, March 21, 2008.
<http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1724911,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom >.
Kingsbury, Kathleen. “A New Fight to legalize Euthanasia.” Time, May 16, 2008.
<http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1807401,00.html>.
Mayh, Krista. “Legal Euthanasia: No Spur to Suicide.” Time, October 2, 2007.
<http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1667770,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom>.
American Catholic Studies Newsletter. Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
Volume 35 Issue 1. Spring 2008.
“A Place at the Table: A Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and to Respect the
Dignity of All God’s Children.” A Pastoral reflection of the US Catholic Bishops.
December 2002.
Brady, Judith Ann. A Place at the Table: Justice for the Poor in a Land of Plenty. New London:
Twenty-Third Publications, 2008.
Krier Mich, Marvin L. The Challenge and Spirituality of Catholic Social Teaching. Louisville:
JustFaith, 2005.
Korgen, Jeffry Odell. Solidarity will transform the World: Stories of Hope from Catholic Relief
Services. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2007.
Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary. Ed. Kathleen Maas Weigert and
Alexia K. Kelley. Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, 2005.
McKenna, Kevin E. A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching. Notre Dame: Ave Maria
Press, 2002.
Merkle, Judith A. From the Heart of the Church: The Catholic Social Tradition. Collegeville,
MN: Liturgical Press, 2004.
Purcell, Bill. “Using the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.” The Sower. January
2007.
Journal of Catholic Social Thought. Volume II Issue 1. Winter 2005.
“Putting Life Before Debt.” Caritas International/CIDSE. 1998.
“Health and Health Care.” A Pastoral Letter of the American Catholic Bishops. November 19,
1981. < http://www.nccbuscc.org/sdwp/national/HEALTH.PDF>.
Crossette, Barbara. “A Disappointing Record: Will the new Human Rights Council take its
mandate seriously?” America, December 1, 2008.
Cusimano Love, Maryann. “An End to Torture: Can the United States recommit itself to legal
interrogation techniques?” America, December 1, 2008.
Dougherty, Mary Ellen and Burke, Jane. “Human Bondage.” America. April 14, 2008.
Henriot, Peter. “A Renewed Challenge: Assessing Paul VI's 'Progress of Peoples'”
America, March 24, 2008.
Hollenbach, David. “An Advocate for All: How the Catholic Church promotes human dignity.”
America, December 1, 2008.
Hollenbach, David. “An Advocate for All: How the Catholic Church promotes human dignity.”America, December 1, 2008.
Omaar, Rageh. “Child Slavery,” BBC News, March 26, 2007.
“Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” United Nations General Assembly resolution 217 A
(III), December 1948.
Ackleson, Jason. “Fencing in Failure: Effective Border Control is Not Achieved by Building
More Fences.” Immigration Policy in Focus, April 2005.
Chip, William and Scaperlanda, Michael. “The Ethics of Immigration: An Exchange.” First
Things, May 2008.
Chip, William and Scaperlanda, Michael. “More on the Ethics of Immigration.” First
Things, June/July 2008.
DeCosse, David. “Can Citizenship Be Earned?” America, October 13, 2008.
Editors. “A Refugee World.” America, November 3, 2008.
Editors. “Migration, the Larger Picture.” America, January 7, 2008.
“From Strangers to Neighbors: Reflections on the Pastoral Theology of Human Migration.”
Lectures delivered at St. John’s University by Rev. Jean-Pierre Ruiz, STD (Taking the
Local: Toward a Contemporary Theology of Migration) and Most Rev. Nicholas A.
DiMarzio, DD, PhD (A Welcoming Church: Theory in Practice), March 4, 2004.
Groody, Daniel. “A Theology of Immigration.” Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn 2004.
Heyer, Kristin. “Welcoming the Stranger.” America, October 13, 2008.
Kavanaugh, John. “Amnesty?” America, March 10, 2008.
“Lunching for Legislation.” The Economist, June 16, 2007.
Navarro, Mireya. “For Divided Family, Border Is Sorrowful Barrier.” New York Times,
December 21, 2006.
Scaperlanda, Michael. “Immigration and the Bishops.” First Things, February 2008.
“Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope.” A Pastoral Letter from the Catholic
Bishops of Mexico and the United States, January 2003.
“The Catholic Church and Immigration Reform.” Speech at the University of Utah by John
Wester, Bishop of Salt Lake City, January 27, 2008.
“The Challenge of ‘We the People’ in a Post-9/11 World: Immigration, the American Economy
and the Constitution.” John M. Templeton, Jr. Lecture in Philadelphia by Cardinal Roger
Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, May 8, 2007.
“The long term: A special report on migration.” The Economist, January 5, 2008.
Weisman, Jonathan. “Immigration Bill Dies in Senate.” The Washington Post, June 29, 2007.
“Welcoming the Stranger Among Us.” A Statement from the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, November 2000.
Wenski, Thomas. “Hitting a Wall on Immigration.” The Washington Post, October 20,
2008.
Dionne, E.J. “Faith and Politics: After the Religious Right.” Commonweal, February 15, 2008.
“Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” A Call to Political Responsibility from the
Catholic Bishops of the United States. November 2007.
<http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org/church/statements>
Heyer, Kristin E. Prophetic & Public: The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism. Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press, 2006.
Mansueto, Anthony. “The Politics of Salvation.” Commonweal, October 24, 2008.
Vischer, Robert. “Bad Faith: Blaming Religion for Proposition 8.” Commonweal, January 16,
2009.
“Voting for the Common Good.” A Practical Guide for Conscientious Catholics.
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“Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding The Participation of Catholics in Political Life.”
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. November 24, 2002.
Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.
Supplementary Materials
“The Challenge of Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” Bulletin Insert from US
Bishops. November 14, 2007.
Miscellaneous Articles
Gehring, John and Alexia Kelley. “A Catholic Call to the Common Good.” America, October 15,
2007.
Gula, Richard. “The Formation of Conscience” from Reason Informed by Faith. Mahwah, NJ:
Paulist Press, 1998.
Malone, Matt. “Bishops on Citizenship.” America, November 5, 2007.
Politics and Elections
Assessing the Candidate?
“Democrats, liberal Catholics promote ‘common good’ as a unifying theme in Nov. elections.”
Associated Press, October 16, 2006.
“House Democrats Release Historic Catholic Statement of Principles.” Press Release from
Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro. February 28, 2006.
McKinnon, John D. “Democrats Rework the Rhetoric.” The Wall Street Journal, November 23,
2007; Page A5.
O’Brien, Nancy Frazier. “No ‘pastor in chief’: Religion as a factor in 2008 presidential race.”
Catholic News Service, October 19, 2007.
O’Brien, Nancy Frazier. “Debate on politics document continues; cardinal criticizes Democrats.”
Catholic News Service, November 19, 2007.
Schoen, Douglas. “Communicating Democrats’ Agenda for the ‘Common Good.’” October 29,
2006.
O’Brien, Nancy Frazier. “Bishops’ document to offer new guidance on Catholics’ political role.”
Catholic News Service, October 18, 2007.
“Statement on Responsibilities of Catholics in Public Life.” Cardinal William H. Keeler,
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. March 10, 2006.
Call to Renewal Keynote Address. Remarks of Senator Barack Obama in Washington DC. June
28, 2006.
Catholics in Political Life, A Reader. March 2005.
“Brothers and Sisters to Us.” US Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Racism in Our Day. November 14,
1979.
Cupich, Blasé. “Racism and the Election.” America, October 27, 2008.
Finley, Michael. “On Race and Space.” Institute on Race and Policy Newsletter. March-April
2002. < http://www1.umn.edu/irp/publications/Law.pdf>.
Flynn, Harry J. “In God’s Image: Pastoral Letter on Racism by Archbishop Harry J. Flynn.”
September 12, 2003. <http://www.archspm.org/racism/Racism%20Eng.pdf>.
George, Francis. “Dwell in My Love: A Pastoral Letter on Racism.” April 4, 2001.
Journal of Catholic Social Thought. Volume III Issue 1. Winter 2006.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Penguin, 1963.
“Love They Neighbor as Thyself.” US Catholic Bishops Speak Against Racism. January 1997
June 2000.
Mazel, Ella. “And don’t call me a racist!” Lexington: Argonaut, 1998.
“Moving Beyond Racism: Learning to see with the eyes of Christ.” A Pastoral letter from the
Bishops of Illinois. April 4, 2000.
powell, john. “Urban Sprawl is a Civil Rights Issue.” Journal of Ecology. Winter 2001.
<http://www1.umn.edu/irp/publications/sprawlcivilrights.html>.
powell, john a. and S.P. Udayakumar. “Race, Poverty & Globalization.” Poverty & Race
(PRRAC), Vol. 9. No. 3, May/June 2000. <http://www.prrac.org/newsletters/mayjun2000.pdf>.
Taub, Richard and William Julius Wilson. There Goes the Neighborhood. New York: Knopf,
2006.
Watkins, Gloria. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Williams, Clarence, Jr. Racial Sobriety. Detroit: Institute for Recovery from Racisms, 2007.
Appleby, Scott. “How Christians Went to War.” US Catholic, July 23, 2008.
Clarke, Kevin. “The Congo’s Killing Fields.” US. Catholic, July 24, 2008.
Clarke, Kevin. “Frosted Mini-Nukes!” US Catholic, July 29, 2008.
Clarke, Kevin. “Weapons of Lasting Destruction.” US Catholic, June 24, 2008.
Clarke, Kevin. “War Wounds.” US Catholic, June 24, 2008.
Cusimano Love, Maryann. “Building Peace.” America, March 31, 2008.
Editors. “Peace in the 21st Century.” America, May 12, 2008.
Editors. “The Roots of Terrorism.” America, January 19, 2009.
Editors. “Is This Just War?” US Catholic, June 16, 2008.
Himes, Kenneth. “Catholic Social Thought & Humanitarian Intervention.” Peacemaking 1994.
Powers, Gerry. “Our Moral Duty in Iraq.” America, February 18, 2008.
“The Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace.” A Statement from the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, 1994.
“War and Peace in the Modern World.” A Statement from the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, 1983.
Weigel, George. “World Order: What Catholics Forgot.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of
Religion and Public Life 143 (May 2004): 31-38.
Weigel, George. “Just War and Iraq Wars.” First Things, April 2007.
“Briefing Paper No 1 on the Commonwealth Government’s Proposals to Reform Workplace
Regulations in Australia.” Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations. September 2005.
DiMarzio, Nicholas. “Labor Day Statement: A Labor Day Reflection on Immigration and
Work.” USCCB. September 4, 2006.
Graham, Paul and Kristi Sanford. “Workers Rights Manual.” Chicago Interfaith Committee on
Worker Issues.
Higgins, Msgr. George G. with William Bole. Organized Labor and the Church. Mahwah, NJ:
Paulist Press, 1993.
“Just Treatment for Those Who Work for the Church.” A National Association of Church
Personnel Administrators Position Paper. November 1986.
Laborem Exercens. Encyclical Letter of John Paul II. 1981.
<http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0217/_INDEX.HTM>
Manheim, Jarol B. Labor Pains. Denton, MD: Tred Avon Institute Press, 2003.
Marciniak, Ed. “Ethical Guidelines for a Religious Institution Confronted by a Union.” Social
Thought, Volume X No 2, Spring 1984.
O’Brien, John J. George Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
“Pastoral Care of Workers.” Laity Today, Review of the Pontifical Council for the Laity. 1993-
1994.
Quigley, William. “The Living Wage and Catholic Social Teaching.” America. August 28,
2006.
Senser, Robert A. “Big Business and the U.N.: Toward a new framework for corporate
responsibility.” America, December 1, 2008.
Shipler, David K. The Working Poor. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
Sibley, Angus. “Labor Unions: Catholic teaching versus the libertarians.” December 15, 2007.
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