RS 218B: Church

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

*Dignatatis Humanae
(pp. 551-568)		 Courtney Butler
Charlotte Dzerkacz
March 10 Catholic-Muslim Dialogue
Catholic-Buddhist Dialogue
 
 *Nostra Aetate
(pp. 569-574)

Also of Interest:
 Dominus Iesus
 		 Peter Miller
Tina Nardi
March 15 & 17 Spring Break
 
March 22 Catholic-Jewish Relations
Ecumenism

*Unitatis Redintegratio
(pp. 499-523)		 Mary Dennis

 
March 24 Media

*Renewing the Mind of the Media

Related documents:

 Letter to the Artists
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)

 		Brian Plante
Kristina Swisher
 
March 29 Civil Rights Panel
Multi-purpose Room, Alliot Hall, 12 pm

*Brothers and Sisters to Us All
 
March 31 Capitalism
Socialism (Cuba)

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

*Rerum Novarum
 

 Sean Barrett
Stefanie Iennaco
 
April 5 Democracy/Citizenship
Catholic Politicians

*Faithful Citizenship (2004)

Related documents:

Catholics in Political Life  (US Bishops)
Doctrinal Notes on the Patricipation of Catholics in Public Life (CDF)
 

 Seann Moriarty
Michael Lombardi
April 7 Nuclear Weapons (Just War)
Ecology

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

The Ecological Crisis
*Renewing the Earth

 Eddie Wolfe
Darren LaPalme
April 12 Welfare
Immigration


 *Strangers No Longer
 

 Taylor Sullivan
Andy Beaulieu
 
April 14 Liturgy
Hispanic Catholics in the US
Inculturation (Latin America)

*Sacrosanctum Concilium

Demographics- Hispanic Catholics

 Andrea Marcotte
David Kupsc
Meghan Dumont
April 19 No Class- Bishop's Ordination
April 21 Inculturation (Africa)
Priestly Celibacy
Pedophilia Scandal

*Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (Paul VI- 1967)

*Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People

Essential Norms

 Amy Usowski
Ethyn Brodeur
Suzanne Turnbull
April 26 Women's Issues
Ordination of Women

*Letter to Women (John Paul II- 1995)

*Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994)

Also of interest:
 Strengthening the Bonds

 Lesley Robbins
Krystal Wrinn
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)
Kasie Scafariello
Lindsay Harrison
May 3 Remarried Catholics
Same-sex Marriages/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

 Stephanie Sirois
Lindsay Brancaleone
May 5 Catholic Health Care
Ex Corde Ecclesia

*Ex Corde Ecclesiae I:30-49, II
Health Care Directives
 

 Brian Ross
Wayne Younghans