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Looking Forward To 2003

New hopes - old problems.  San Francisco Bay Catholic continues posting monthly articles highlighting internal Catholic and Church-State Issues of interest to American Catholics.

What’s Wrong With
An Agenda?

Noted Author and Theologian Richard P. McBrien asks an obvious question his answer is also obvious? Agenda

Catholic Just War Theory Explained

By Father William Messenger

In recent years, every time that the government either goes to war or threatens  to, an appeal is made to the Just War Doctrine of the Catholic Church. Whether or not any particular war does, in fact, conform to the conditions of a just  war, must be debated. In order to do so, it is necessary to know and be fully informed about the teaching and the tradition.   JUST WAR THEORY

Forming A Catholic Conscience

Probabilism: The Right to Know of Moral Options.  Father Philip Kaufman, OSB; monk of Saint John’s Abbey discusses the Catholics right to make moral decisions of conscience. (Book excerpt)

Catholic Web Sites
A Help or Hindrance?

Why the majority of Catholic sites fail in their mission.

Why Do I Stay?  

Why one women  remains a member of the Catholic Church.
By Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph.D

NCR Series

How And Why We Pray

How And Why
We Go to Mass