DOCUMENTS by ARCC members and others
SAINT? Pius IX
  • Open Letter concerning Pius IX to Gabriel Montalvo, Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See" (11 August 2000)
  • Litany for the Intercession of Pope Pius IX (July 2000)

  • Liberty of Thought and Conscience
  • Dilaogue and Dissent: An American Catholic Vocation (April 2004)
  • The Canonical Doctrine of Reception / La Doctrina Canonica de la Recepcion (May 2003)
  • Democratic Catholicism--A Call to Holiness through Transparency: Accountability, Dialogue, and Representation (May 2003)
  • Catholicism, Democracy, and Human Rights (March 2002)
  • Statement of Sister Christine Vladimiroff, Prioress, Mount St. Benedict Monastery, Erie PA  concerning the attempt of the Vatican to silence Sister Joan Chittister (July 2001)
  • Paul Collins, MSC,  resigns from active priesthood (March 2001)
  • German priests protest loyalty oath (7 March 2001)
  • Open Letter by the ARCC Board to President John E. Murray, Jr., Duquesne University, concerning the dismissal of Prof. Moni McIntyre  from the theology department (January 2001)
  • Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) (Ex corde ecclesiae)
  • Press Statement by John Wijngaards concerning his resignations from the active priesthood (17 September 1998)
  • The Rev. Dr. Paul Collins' Response to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1998)

  • Other Human Rights
  • A Pastoral Letter on Domestic Violence by the Most Rev. Ricardo Ramírez, C.S.B. Bishop of Las Cruces (July 2001)

  • From the ARCC Archives
  • SHOULD CATHOLICS LET THEIR CONSCIENCE BE THEIR GUIDE?  The Editors of U.S. CATHOLIC Interview Sidney Callahan (Dec. 1988)
  • DISSENT AND DIALOGUE IN THE CHURCH by THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF CATHOLICS IN THE CHURCH (1993)
  • DISSENT: AN HONORED PART OF THE CHURCH'S VOCATION by Leonard Swidler (NCR, September, 1989)
  • DIALOGAR Y DISENTIR: AUNA VOCACIÓN CATÓLICA NORTEAMERICANA por Leonard Swidler
  • FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION  (1997) -- Temple ARCC Site Archive (Please use browser back button to return to the ARCC domain)
  • LOYAL DISSENT VITAL TO LIFE OF CHURCH  (1995) by Ingrid Shafer

  • ARCC Statements
  • Vatican Must Deal Openly With Priest Pedophilia Cases (March 2002)
  • Sexual Abuse -- Spawn of the Vatican's Lust for Power (March 2001)

  • Focus on Fundamentalism
  • Response by Stephen A. Privett, S.J., President of the University of San Francisco  to the false charges made on the website of Friends of the St. Ignatius Institute and repeated by Zenit, the Vatican News Agency (February 2001)
  • "Focus on FOCUS" by Roberta Meehan, Ph.D.
  • "Evangelization on college campuses is important.  However, such evangelization must be done with integrity.  The FOCUS program does not use approved catechetical materials.  Furthermore, FOCUS teaches concepts and ideas contrary to the teachings of Biblical Scholarship, the CCC, and basic Roman Catholic understanding.  FOCUS is not a group that should be evangelizing on the college campuses today. " (26 August 2000)
  • "Women of Rome" by Gordon Urquhart
  • "Report on the World Congress of Families II" by Gordon Urquhart