Ignatius Press Marriage and the Family Resources

Moral Issues

We live in a time of moral confusion. Bring clarity to the discussion with these well-focused books dealing with moral issues affecting the family.

  • Non-Negotiable: Essential Principles of a Just Society and Humane Culture

    Non-Negotiable: Essential Principles of a Just Society and Humane Culture

    In their founding documents, the United States and the United Nations recognized the principles that all men have inherent dignity and that they deserve equal rights. Yet both have powerful political forces passing laws or resolutions that violate these first principles and put at risk the most vulnerable populations. Also available as an ebook.

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  • Why Humanae Vitae Was Right

    Why Humanae Vitae Was Right

    For the 25th anniversary year of the historic document Humanae Vitae (1968), Janet Smith has gathered together twenty-one outstanding essays and articles by well-respected thinkers to provide the demonstration that Pope Paul VI was not simply correct, but prophetic.

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  • Humanae Vitae

    Humanae Vitae

    A revised and improved translation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter Humanae Vitae.

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  • On the Meaning of Sex

    On the Meaning of Sex

    Everyone in every time and place is interested in sex. Our own time is obsessed by it. One would think that a society obsessed by sex would understand it very well. But obsession drives out understanding. We no longer understand even the common sense of sexuality, the things that were common knowledge in supposedly less enlightened times.

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  • Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family and Freedom Before It's Too Late

    Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family and Freedom Before It's Too Late

    Written to appeal to a broad spectrum of believers, Indivisible provides simple, clear arguments that Christians can use to support their beliefs in public settings. We can restore our culture and revive our economy, but everyone must play a part. Here's what we must know and do, and how we can do it.

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  • Making Gay Okay

    Making Gay Okay

    Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable? Why has the US Supreme Court accepted the validity of same-sex “marriage”, which until a decade ago was unheard of? Where has the “gay rights” movement come from, and how has it so easily conquered America? Also available as an ebook.

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  • The Battle for Normality: A Guide for Self-Therapy for Homosexuality

    The Battle for Normality: A Guide for Self-Therapy for Homosexuality

    This book is for homosexual persons who seek practical advice in order to change or at least constructively deal with their homosexuality. It is written with their needs, anxieties, and weaknesses in mind, as Dr. Van den Aardweg has learned them during more than 30 years of therapy with homosexual persons. Also available as an ebook.

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  • Modern Moral Problems

    Modern Moral Problems

    Written in a question-and-answer format, this book covers questions regarding sexuality, medical ethics, business practices, civic responsibilities, and the sacramental life of the Church. A valuable reference, it addresses moral quandaries that can beguile and confuse faithful Catholics. Also available as an ebook.

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  • Healing the Culture

    Healing the Culture

    This book draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life and larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting our capacity for rational analysis, this work defines the key cultural terms affecting life issues. Also available as an ebook.

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  • Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues

    Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues

    Are there “public arguments”—reasons that do not presuppose agreement on religious grounds—that can guide our thoughts and actions, as well as our laws and public policies? This book offers ten such basic principles that must govern the reasonable person's thinking and acting about life issues. Also available as an ebook and an audio book.

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  • Three Approaches to Abortion

    Three Approaches to Abortion

    In this thoughtful dialogue between a pro-lifer and a “pro-choicer”, Peter Kreeft shows irrefutably why abortion is evil. Kreeft’s commonsense approach to the issue, his lucid arguments, and the easy-to-grasp illustrations and examples make this book an invaluable tool in the pro-life cause. Also available as an ebook.

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  • Unplanned

    Unplanned

    Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, after participating in her first actual abortion procedure, walked across the road to join the Coalition for Life.

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  • The Right to Privacy

    The Right to Privacy

    This book presents a critical look at the meaning of the “right to privacy” that has been so often employed by the Supreme Court to justify the creation of rights not found in the Constitution by any traditional method of interpreting a legal document. These inventions have led to the legal protection of abortion, assisted suicide, homosexual acts, and more.

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