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Can we build a culture where we value being over having and the person over things? Can we pass from indifference to concern for others; from rejection to acceptance of them?
Evangelium Vitae, 98

Resources

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• Respect Life Sunday, 4 October 2009
  • Life a Gift Always Worth Living (PDF)
  • Prayers of Intercession (PDF)
    
    
• Respect Life Sunday, 5 October 2008
  • Welcoming and Celebrating the Gift of New Life (PDF)
  • Prayers of Intercession (PDF)

• Spiritual Pampering: Evening Retreat for Women, 28 February 2008
  • The Dignity and Vocation of Women (mp3 audio file part 1)
  • The Dignity and Vocation of Women (mp3 audio file part 2)
    
    
• Respect Life Sunday, 7 October 2007
  • Becoming a Family and Building the Future (PDF)
  • Prayers and Bulletin Notices (PDF)
    
    
• End of Life
• Commentary on Artificial Hydration and Nutrition - Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (PDF)
• The million dollar question: Despair or hope? Life Office information sheet (PDF)
• Catholics and Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide - Life Office information sheet (PDF)
• The way of suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or Evangelium Vitae's way of mercy and compassion? (PDF)
• Briefing Note on the Obligation to Provide Nutrition and Hydration (PDF)
• Dignity: Now and at the hour of death: Respect Life Sunday, 3 October 2004 (PDF)
• The ethics of care for those with post-coma unresponsiveness and related conditions - Bishop Anthony Fisher OP (PDF)
• Hospice Care: Transforming a Culture of Death into a Civilization of Love (PDF)
• A guide for health care professionals implementing a future health care plan - Catholic Health Australia (PDF)
• A guide for people considering their future health - Catholic Health Australia (PDF)
  
  
• The Morning After Pill:
  • What is the morning after pill? Life Office information sheet (PDF)
  • 'Pharmacists and the Morning After Pill' - Talk by John Wilks (PDF)
  • Over-the-counter sales of 'the morning after pill' - Statement by the Bishops Committee for Doctrine and Morals (PDF)
    
    
• Abortion
  • ‘Defending Conscience and Protecting Life: Respect Life Sunday 2009’
  • Preliminary Advice on Pregnancy Support and Counselling Services, Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference Commission for Doctrine and Morals (PDF)
  • Questions & Answers on RU486 (PDF)
  • Vaccines developed in cell lines from aborted fetuses (PDF)
  • The insidious censorship of pro-life women (PDF)
  • Catholics and Abortion - Life Office information sheet (PDF)
  • Alternatives to Abortion - Talk by Brigid Vout (PDF)
  • Pro Woman & Pro Life: Respect Life Sunday, 2 October 2005 (PDF)
    
    
• Reproductive Technology
  • Catholics and Reproductive Technology - Life Office information sheet (PDF)
    
    
• Fertility Care and Natural Procreative Technology
  • Natural Procreative (NaPro) Technology – it’s just good medicine!
  • A Synopsis Of Clinical Outcomes, Utilising Natural Procreative (Napro) Technology
    
    
• Stem Cells and Cloning
  • When Does Life Begin? - Brigid Vout (PDF)
  • Catholics and Stem Cell Research and Therapy - Life Office information sheet (PDF)
  • Catholics and Human Cloning - Life Office information sheet (PDF)
  • The Embryonic Stem-cell Panacea: fact or fiction? - Bishop Anthony Fisher OP (PDF)
  • The Human Embryo; Someone or Something? Respect Life Sunday, 2006 (PDF)
    
    
• HIV – AIDS
  • Is the Pope Guilty? - Sunday Telegraph column by + Cardinal George Pell, 31 July 2005
  • Africa and AIDS - Sunday Telegraph column by + Cardinal George Pell, 24 July 2005
  • Condoms/AIDS controversy in Africa – information sheet (PDF)
    
    
• Organ Donation
  • Organ donors show good can come from tragedy - Sunday Telegraph column by + Cardinal George Pell, 1 February 2004
  • Catholics and organ transplantation - Life Office information sheet (PDF)
    

"Life is a gift. Each one of us is unique, known by name, and loved by the One who fashioned us. Unfortunately, there is a very loud, consistent, and powerful message coming to us from our world that leads us to believe that we must prove our belovedness by how we look, by what we have, and by what we can accomplish. We become preoccupied with 'making it' in this life, and we are very slow to grasp the liberating truth of our origins and our finality. We need to hear the message announced and see the message embodied, over and over again. Only then do we find the courage to claim it and to live from it."
Henri Nouwen. Adam: God's Beloved. HarperCollins Religious: Blackburn Victoria , 1997.

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