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