In addition to the general sessions, participants in the Respect Life also attend the following sessions:
Year Two – January 13, 2012
JPII/Fides et Ratio: Engaging the Culture
This talk will:
- Give an overview of John Paul II’s Encyclical Fides et Ratio.
- Define the Christian understanding of philosophy and metaphysics and its role in supporting the Faith.
- To highlight the primary non-Catholic philosophical schools of thought in our culture and show their opposition to Christian metaphysics.
Conversion in Adults
Parish Models and Resources
This talk will:
- Provide practical tools for establishing a prolife ministry at a parish.
- Discuss the importance of working in communion with one’s pastor and bishop.
Highlight essential resources for supporting prolife ministry at the parish.
Healing and Respect Life
This talk will:
- Give an overview of the personal wounds and pain inflicted by the culture of death.
- Show Christ’s response to the woman at the well as the primordial model for our response to the wounded person.
- To highlight the essential dispositions, attitudes and strategies to take to promote and provide healing on the parish level.
Current Issues in Medical Ethics
This talk will:
- Summarize the Church’s moral principles in the area of life.
- Give an overview of the most recent issues in medical ethics.
- Discuss ways in which the Church is responding to these issues.
Year One (2013)
1. JPII/Evangelium Vitae pt. 1
2. JPII/Evangelium Vitae pt. 2
3. Event Planning 101
4. Ecclesia in America and the foundations of Solidarity
5. Catholics in the Public Square