Parish Resources: Human Dignity

Death Penalty

• Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty
• Catholics Against Capital Punishment – Resources
• Statements by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• State Catholic Conference and Individual Bishops’ Statements
• The Vatican, The Holy Father and the Death Penalty
• Bulletin Insert from Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty
• A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death DVD 
• Discussion Guide to the Video: A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death

Immigration

• Faithful Perspectives: A Conversation on Immigration and Your Congregation. (Audio Download starts at minute 1:10)
• Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, Vice-president of the USCCB testified before Congress (House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law) on the ethical imperative for reform of the U.S. immigration system. Read his testimony.
• “5 Ways to Engage your Congregation” [Parish Resources on Immigration Reform]
• Catholic Principles for Comprehensive Immigration Reform” – Senate testimony of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington on behalf of the USCCB; October 8, 2009.
• Border Working Group urges the 111th Congress to address human rights and violence at the U.S/Mexico border
• Cardinal George Calls for End to Immigration Raids
• Legislation to Protect Immigrant Detainees Introduced in the House of Representatives
• Vatican dossier on “The Question of Immigration in the United States of America.” (Download PDF)
• On Immigration (Download PDF)
• Refugee Fact Sheet (Download PDF)
• Immigration Resources for Priests – MD Catholic Bishops (Download English PDF) (Spanish PDF)
• Root Causes of Migration – MD Catholic Bishops (Download English PDF) (Spanish JPG)
• Response to Undocumented Immigration: The Arguments (PDF)
• From Many, One Family of God (PDF)
• Where All Find A Home – MD Catholic Bishops, (Download PDF)
• Forgotten Border (Publication of the Latin America Working Group)
• Oblate JPIC Statement of Opposition to the Proposed Extension of the US/Mexico Border Wall (Download PDF)
• Interfaith Immigration Statement of 2006 (Download English PDF) (Spanish PDF)

Indigenous Peoples

• Oblate Mission Statement on Indigenous Peoples
• Stories of Oblate Mission with Indigenous Peoples

Human Rights

• Torture is a Moral Issue (USCCB)
  
• Religious Liberty – A Human Right (USCCB)
  
• Pro-Life Activities: A list of Resources from the USCCB

HIV/AIDS

• Parish Manual: Many Threads, One Weave (Available in English and Spanish)
  
• National Catholic AIDS Network Resources
• Bulletin Insert for World AIDS Day (December 1)
• The World Bank’s Commitment to HIV/AIDS in Africa; Our Agenda for Action, 2007-2011 (PDF)

Human Trafficking

• Sisters of Christian Charity, Eastern Province Human Trafficking Project:

• Stop Trafficking Newsletter
• Breaking the Snares: Human Trafficking Packet for Parishes
• “Hidden in Plain Sight” U.S. Catholic, January 2009
• Electronic Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Human Trafficking Fact Sheet: “What is Human Trafficking?”

• USCCB Coalition of Catholic Organizations Against Human Trafficking – See Resources Bar at lower left
• “Trafficking in Persons Report” — annual report issued by the US State Department which details aspects of this problem in countries around the world.

Nuclear Weapons

• Nuclear Arms and Landmines - USCCB Backgrounder

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