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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, 2 October 2005
  • Poster
  • Brochure
  • Prayer for Life
  • Prayers of the Faithful
  • Bulletin Bits
    
    
• Gospel of Life Prayer Card
  
  
• Respect Life Sunday, 3 October 2004
  • Flyer prepared for RLS (PDF)
  • Intercessions and Prayers (PDF page)
  • Excepts from Evangelium Vitae (PDF document)
    
    
• End of Life
• 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)
• 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 document)
  
  
• 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
  • 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)
    
    
• 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)
    
• 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
    
• Organ Donation
  • Organ donors show good can come from tragedy - Sunday Telegraph column by + Cardinal George Pell, 1 February 2004
    

"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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