RS 218A: Church

Syllabus for Presentation/Term Paper
March 8 Religious Freedom
Archbishop Lefebvre

*Dignatatis Humanae
(pp. 551-568)

 Carmen Silvestri
Arik Mortenson
March 10 Catholic-Muslim Dialogue
Catholic-Buddhist Dialogue

 *Nostra Aetate
(pp. 569-574)

Dominus Iesus

 Casey Dorwart
Carrie Leonard
March 15 & 17 Spring Break
March 22 Catholic-Jewish Relations
Ecumenism

*Unitatis Redintegratio
(pp. 499-523)		 Jen Fucile
March 24 Art
Media

*Letter to the Artists
*Renewing the Mind of the Media

Related documents:

The Rapid Development (2005)

Communio et Progressio (1971)
Aetatis Novae (1992)

Civility in Media
Ethics in Communications
Ethics in Advertising
Pornography and Violence

 The Church and the Internet
Ethics in the Internet
Your Family and Cyberspace

Speech to Entertainment Leaders (1987)

 		Meagan Blair
Mike O’Brien/Lauren Traill
March 29 Civil Rights Panel
Multi-purpose Room, Alliot Hall, 12 pm

*Brothers and Sisters to Us All
 
March 31 Capitalism
Democracy/Citizenship

*Gaudium et Spes 63-76
*Centesimus Annus 30-50

*Rerum Novarum

Related documents:
 Faithful Citizenship (2004)

 Michael Carney
Jeff Ingalls
April 5 Stem Cell
Cloning
Nuclear Weapons (Just War)

*Gaudium et Spes 77-82
*Challenge of Peace 80-100

Also of interest:

US Bishop  pro-Life website

Annice Mason
Paul Wagner
Jonathan Perez
April 7 Ecology
Global Warming

The Ecological Crisis
*Renewing the Earth

 Tara Hostnik
Sabrina Muir
April 12 Criminal Justice
Immigration

Criminal Justice
 *Strangers No Longer
 

 Andy DiMasi
Brendan Mullins
April 14 Liberation Theologians
Catholic Politicians
 

*Catholics in Political Life (US Bishops)

Also of interest:
Doctrinal Notes on the Participation of Catholics in Public Life (CDF)

 

 David Carney
Tyler Adkins
 
April 19 No Class- Bishop's Ordination
 
April 21 Inculturation (Africa)
Hispanic Catholics in the US
Priestly Celibacy

 Demographics- Hispanic Catholics

*Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Paul VI- 1967)		 Billie Parker
Pat Donohue
Mike Mosey
 
April 26 Pedophilia Scandal
Ordination of Women

*Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People

Essential Norms

*Inter Insigniores (CDF- 1976)

See also:

Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994)

 Matt Hogan
Kristen Doran
April 28 Evangelium Vitae
Capital Punishment
Euthanasia

*Evangelium Vitae 18-24, 55-57, 64-76

US Bishops on Capital Punishment (1980)

Declaration on Euthanasia (CDF- 1980)

  
Mary Nolan
Tammy Whittington
May 3 Remarried Catholics
Same-sex Marriage/Civil Unions

*Familiaris Consortio 77-85
Recommendations for the Care of Divorced

Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions

Also of interest:

 Declaration on Certain Issues Concerning Sexual Ethics

On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons

Always Our Children

Term Paper Due

 Genevieve Folino
Megan Kossuth
May 5 Ex Corde Ecclesia

*Ex Corde Ecclesiae I:30-49, II

 Joe Passanisi