POPULATION ISSUES

Bush Administration Withholds UNFPA Funds for 7th Straight Year

If the World Were Only 100 People

Demography is Not Destiny

Population Growth and the Environment

Overpopulation Issue Overlooked by Presidential Candidates

Overpopulation could be people, planet problem

U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population

Global over-population is the real issue

Humanity is the greatest challenge

Population pressure takes Earth to its limits

Chinese Tradition of Sons Causes Leap in Births

ENVIRONMENT

The New Renaissance
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet – or they’re not.

Global Water Iniative Launched

National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

Green Revolutionary

Humans Gobble One Quarter of Food Chain's Foundation

U.N. Warns of Rapid Decay of Environment

Our Drinkable Water Supply Is Vanishing

A Swiftly Melting Planet

Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land

Climate Change May Force Mass Migration

BOOKS WE'VE LIKED

The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory by David Loy

The Paranoia Switch

Bishop's Book Call For a Better Church

The A Word -- Abortion: Real Women, Tough Choices, Personal Freedom


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PRESIDENT'S CORNER

Dr. Daniel C. Maguire teaches Moral Theology and Ethics at Marquette University in Milwaukee.


 

JUST PUBLISHED

Dan Maguire offers deeply informed and incisive theological arguments in favor of gender equality, affirmative action and antiracism, opposition to war, and the fight against poverty and economic inequality. (details, order.)

Radio Interview on "Whose Church?"

"I Believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute"
(Read the speech of John F. Kennedy to the ministers in Houston in 1960)

 


Bishops Behaving Badly
(click photo to see why)

Bishops Hail Dead Theologians


Obama's Speech on Race

Sex and the Sacred: text / video

Media Summary June 16-30, 2008

Letter from a Catholic Theologian to All 270 U.S. Catholic Bishops

Bishops Denounce Maguire's Writings

"A pity beyond all telling." -- Dan Maguire's response to U.S. bishops

Moderate Roman Catholic Position on Contraception & Abortion

A Catholic Defense of Same Sex Marriage

Interview with Dan Maguire on bishops' failure to get off pelvic issues and talk about peace, poverty and other cutting-edge issues.

NEWSLETTERS

  April 2007

Archives of Newsletters

SPECIAL FEATURES

WHAT HARM TO BE A WOMAN?
This DVD visits individuals and organizations around the world that have found a religious response to violence against women and are helping women to reunderstand their faiths and reshape their own lives.
How to order

Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers

Mary Hunt Faults Papal Press Coverage

The Social Edge Interview with Theologian and Activist Mary Hunt

UN Population Fund Spurned By Bush

Sex, abstinence, and the adolescent brain

Newspaper Editorials on Comprehensive Sex Education and Abstinence-Only Education

An Open Letter to Religious Leaders on Adolescent Sexuality

UN Urges Freedoms for Arab Women

Time to Speak: Why Progressive Religious Leaders Must Find Their Voice on Sexual Justice (Rev D W Haffner)

 

SCHOLARS' COLLECTION

Population Growth & Justice (Martin-Schramm)

Engaged Islam (Engineer)
NEWSLETTERS
Latest Issue
Archives of past issues


BOOKS BY TRC SCHOLARS
Participating Scholars of The Religious Consultation writing on sexuality, religious perspectives on population, consumption, and related issues.
Books   Publications    Booklets

Violence Against Women: Roots and Cures in World Religions
Introduction to new book by scholars of The Religious Consultation

Heterosexism in Contemporary World Religion
Introduction to new book by scholars of The Religious Consultation

FAMILY PLANNING:
THE WISDOM OF ISLAM

By Sa'diyya Shaikh
read on-line in Arabic

LINKS to organizations working on related issues.


DR MAGUIRE COLLECTION

SACRED CHOICES
The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions

Sacred Choices Initiative
Summary
About the Author
Preface
Frequently Asked Questions
Scholars for Sacred Choices
Buy the Book
Radio interview
What people are saying about the book


Agenda for Pope's Visit to USA

Dan Maguire calls for impeachment

Dan Maguire's Letter to the Editor Regarding Catholic Politicians and Abortion

Statement of Dan Maguire on Supreme Court Abortion Ban

Automatic Excommunication for Pols Supporting Abortion Clarified

Calling All "Pro-Lifers!"

Where Does God Stand on Abortion?

Letter from a Catholic Theologian to All 270 U.S. Catholic Bishops

Vatican and Bishops in Schism and Heresy

Israel fails to meet tests for a 'just war'

The Lies of War: Dissecting the "Just War” Euphemisms and Building an Ethics of Peace

The Education of Shelby Knox: Sex, Lies & Education

Pro-Life Abortions

Is Abortion Murder?

The Co-Opted Gospel

Sex and the Sacred text | video

The Empire/Servility Syndrome

The Chastity Mask

Irish Times interviews Dan Maguire on abortion issue

Terri Schiavo and Catholic Moral Theology

Pope's 25 Years of Unfulfilled Potential

The Money Is There!!!

Strange Bedfellows — Chinese Communists and the Republican Party

The Magdalene Sisters: Who's to Blame?

Contraception & Abortion in Islam

Fetus Alert!

Why Do Americans Hate Children?

Theocracy USA

Did A Catholic Saint Approve Abortion?

Abortion debate clouds stem cell issue

Sex, Ethics and One Billion Adolescents

Metamorphosis of Power

The Church IS a Democracy

Voice of The Faithful in a Clergy Dominated Church

Reproductive Rights After 9/11

A Superpower No More

Poverty, Population, Catholic Tradition

Population, Poverty & Sustainable Development

Address to UN Conference in Cairo

AUDIO

Interview with Dan Maguire on bishops' failure to get off pelvic issues and talk about peace, poverty and other cutting-edge issues.