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Discussion Group

DISCUSSION & DISCIPLESHIP

Why does the Church believe that? How can I explain this to others? 

Sometimes, we have difficulty understanding Catholic teaching and even greater difficulty in explaining it to others.

Discussion & Discipleship is a collaborative group where participants come together to examine controversial issues of politics, culture, science, law, theology, and philosophy, all from the Catholic perspective.

General Format ~ 

Before each meeting, participants will be presented with a hot topic and an official Church document on the topic. Then, during each meeting, participants will take part in a moderated, two-part discussion on the topic and reading material, and ways to explain the Catholic perspective to others.

Meeting Details ~ 

Meetings are typically held on the last Friday evening of every month.

Please contact [email protected] for location and reading materials. RSVP required. 

Previous Topics ~

  • In vitro fertilization (IVF)discussion materials found here.
  • Gender ideologydiscussion materials found here and here.
  • Collaboration between the sexes discussion materials found here
  • Assisted suicide – discussion materials found here and here.
  • End-of-life decision-making – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Death penalty – discussion materials found here and here
  • Human freedom – discussion materials found here.
  • Laudato Si’: Technology – discussion materials found here
  • Laudato Si’: Value of labor – discussion materials found here
  • Desire for God – discussion materials found here
  • Laudato Si’: Integral Ecology – discussion materials found here
  • Civic engagement – discussion materials found here
  • Church-State relationship – discussion materials found here
  • Dignity and economics – discussion materials found here.
  • Peace and war – discussion materials found here
  • Contraception – discussion materials found here
  • Sex abuse crisis: lay response – discussion materials found here
  • #MeToo movement and Catholicism – discussion materials found here
  • Loneliness and alienation – discussion materials found here and here. 
  • Moral conscience – discussion materials found here
  • Excommunication and the Eucharist – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Immigration – discussion materials found here and here
  • Racism discussion materials found here and here
  • Homosexuality discussion materials found here and here.
  • Evangelization discussion materials found here.
  • Role of women discussion materials found here and here
  • Male-only ordination – discussion materials found here.
  • Natural law – discussion materials found here.
  • Violating the confessional seal – discussion materials found here.
  • Healing the Church: the sex abuse crisis – discussion materials found here.
  • Marijuana legalization – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Church response to COVID-19 – discussion materials found here.
  • Hope during uncertainty – discussion materials found here.
  • Religious freedom – discussion materials found here.
  • Catholic identity – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Heaven, hell, and purgatory – discussion materials found here.
  • Catholic voting principles – discussion materials found here.
  • Authority of Church teaching – discussion materials found here and here.
  • COVID-19 vaccines – discussion materials found here.
  • Social justice – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Catholic school system – discussion materials found here.
  • Gun control – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Civil disobedience – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Finding a Godly spouse – discussion materials found here.
  • Holiness – discussion materials found here.
  • Religious accommodations to vaccine mandates – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Catholicism in corporate America – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Obedience and unjust laws – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Nuclear weapons – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Transgender ideology and the youth – discussion materials found here.
  • Abortion and the Dobbs decision (Part 1) – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Abortion and the Dobbs decision (Part 2) – discussion materials found here.
  • The Church and slavery – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Building community – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Respect for the truth – discussion materials found here.
  • Spiritual warfare – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Boycotts and morality – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Brain death – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Social media and Catholicism – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Pride month and the Catholic response – discussion materials found here and here.
  • The problem of evil and human suffering – discussion materials found here and here.
  • Sin, crime, and the Church – discussion materials found here and here.
  • The Synod on Synodality – discussion materials found here.
  • Blessings for same-sex couples – discussion materials found here.
  • The Catholic Church and Zionism – discussion materials found here.
  • Embryo adoption – discussion materials found here and here.
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