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Catholic Education Resource Center: Search ResultsYour search returned... 0 Categories 8 LinksLinksCruelty Toward Animals - FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERSMy son criticizes me for wearing a fur coat. He says that this is cruelty to animals. I say this is why God made minks or whatever. Does the Church have a teaching on this? Read more... Forming a community of Persons: The rights, Dignity and Role of Men and Wom - Mary ShivanandanIt is man's body that makes him conscious of being alone. It is precisely through his body that he realizes aloneness and difference from the animals even though he is a body among bodies. Read more... Persons Are Unrepeatable - John F. CrosbyWe speak of individual animals, looking upon them simply as single specimens of a particular animal species. And this definition suffices. Read more... The Use of All Creation - Fr. William SaundersMy son criticizes me for wearing a fur coat. He says that this is cruelty to animals. I say this is why God made minks or whatever. Does the Church have a teaching on this? Read more... The Ethics of "Choice" Thirty Years On: The Microcosm of "Regime Change" - Iain T. BensonSummer winding down, I suppose it was unfortunate that we have had to kill our animals. Two cats, a dog (actually a puppy), a miniature donkey "Roncevalles" and our beloved pet chimp "Washoe", before we moved homes. Read more... Eating our Friends - Roger ScrutonThe consensus among the monotheistic religions has been that animals exist for our purposes and that we are entitled to use them, domesticate them and eat them, subject only to God's inscrutable dietary laws. Read more... Earth - Frederica Mathewes-GreenEarth, the first release from the Disneynature films, lives up to its publicity; this film is 85 minutes of jaw-droppingly beautiful clouds, waterfalls, icebergs, and savannahs; of graceful animals, scary animals, funny animals, and excruciatingly cute baby animals. Read more... We must protect humans' special status - Margaret SomervilleIf certain animals become persons, as some philosophers argue, human persons become animals, which has consequences for how we treat each other. Read more... |
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