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CPF hosts Talks by Martha Hennessy and Tom Cornell at Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame – 10/28/16

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CPF hosts Talks by Martha Hennessy and Tom Cornell at Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame – 10/28/16

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CPF News and Upcoming Events

  • CPF Presentation at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary – 11/30/16
  • CPF & ND-CPF Advent Prayer on the Anniversary of the the Death Servant of God Dorothy Day – 7:00 p.m. Moreau Seminary Chapel – 11/29/16
  • Presentation at Annual Peace Dinner with Bishops in Baltimore, Maryland – 11/15/16
  • Prayer for Peace – Feast of St. Martin of Tours – 11/11/16
  • CPF Prayer and Presentation to Holy Cross College Mission Team – 11/6/16
  • Screening and Discussion of the Film On the Bridge at Moreau Seminary at 7:00 p.m. – 11/3/16
  • Celebration of the Feast of Saint Marcellus 2016 – 2:15-6:00 p.m. – 10/30/16
  • CPF hosts Talks by Martha Hennessy and Tom Cornell at Holy Cross College and the University of Notre Dame – 10/28/16
  • CPF Roundtable with Deacon Tom Cornell & Martha Hennessy at SB Catholic Worker – 10/28/16
  • CPF Encouraged Event – A Conversation with Phil Klay – 10/21/16 (Chicago)
  • CPF Encouraged Event – Religious Faith & Modern War Talk by Phil Klay – 10/21/16 (Chicago)
  • CPF Hosts Taizé Brothers’ Presentation & Prayer for Unity & Peace at Saint Matthew Cathedral Monthly Parish Potluck – 10/12/16
  • CPF & NDCPF Host Prayer and Discussion over Lunch with Taizé Brothers at University of Notre Dame – 10/12/16
  • CPF Hosts Taizé Brothers’ Morning Prayer for Unity & Peace at Holy Cross College – 10/12/16
  • CPF Hosts Taizé Brothers’ Prayer for Unity and Peace at Catholic Worker of Michiana – 10/11/16
  • Works of Mercy, Works of Peace: CPF-Led Clarification of Thought at Catholic Worker First Friday Gathering – 10/7/16
  • IUSB Veteran Reading Group – 10/20/16
  • ND-CPF George Rouault Miserere Meditation for Our Lady of Sorrows – 9/15/16
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The Catholic Peace Fellowship 1974 Statement on Abortion: Signers: Dorothy Day; Eileen Egan; Hermene Evans; Joseph Evans, M.D.; Thomas C. Cornell; James H. Forest; Gordon C. Zahn
June 28, 1974
The January 22, 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion deprives all unborn human beings of any protection whatever against incursions upon their right to life and has thus created a situation we find morally intolerable, and one which we feel obliged to protest.

From the point of view of biological science the fetus is an individual human life. The social sciences may attempt to define "fully human" in a variety of ways, but their findings are inconclusive and, at best, tentative and certainly supply no basis for determining who is or who is not to enjoy the gift of life. No one has the right to choose life or death for another; to assume such power has always been recognized as the ultimate form of oppression.

A primary obligation of civil society is to protect the innocent. A legal situation such as now exists in the United States, making abortion available upon demand, is an abdication of the state's responsibility to protect the most basic of rights, the right to life.

We make this statement to protest a policy and a practice, not to condemn any individual for a tragic decision she or he may have felt forced to make, just as in our protest against war and its destruction of human life we pass no judgment upon the individual who acts in good conscience.

But just as we urge our leaders to institute policies that will put an end to the constant threat of war, so we call upon them, in particular our legislatures and courts, to undertake a prudent and thorough reassessment of the abortion issue in all its ramifications and to develop a policy that will extend the rights and protections afforded by the Constitution, and inherent by nature, to the unborn, and at the same time to provide every support and assistance to those who might otherwise be driven to consider abortion as a solution to real and demanding personal problems.

We reject categorically the Supreme Court's argument that abortion is an exclusively private matter to be decided by the prospective mother and her physician. We protest the thoroughly logical and perhaps inevitable extension of a practice which, though first argued in a personal context, has rapidly become a social policy involving publicly funded clinics and supportive agencies.

This is not a "Catholic issue," and to dismiss it as such is to deny the dedication and the contribution of those of other religions and of none. Nor is this simply a matter of one group of citizens imposing its own morality upon others, any more so than our conscientious resistance to the war in Viet Nam, to conscription, etc. Indeed, we insist that these positions are all of one piece, stemming from what Albert Schweitzer called, "reverence for life," and the consequent obligation to oppose any policy or practice which would give one human being the right to determine whether or not another shall be permitted to live.

For many years we have urged upon our spiritual leaders the inter-relatedness of the life issues, war, capital punishment, abortion, euthanasia and economic exploitation. We welcome the energetic leadership our bishops are giving in the abortion controversy and we are proud to join our voices with theirs. At the same time we must point out that, ultimately, the sincerity of our words and theirs on any of these issues will be measured by our readiness to recognize and deal with the underlying social problems which turn many people to these deadly alternatives, to condemn all forms of social and economic injustice and to work for their elimination and the establishment of a social order in which all may find it easier to be "fully human."
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Dorothy Day
Eileen Egan
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James H. Forest
Gordon C. Zahn
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