Catholic Social Teaching Ways to learn about Catholic social
teaching and how to implement it at home, in the classroom, and
in everyday life. Moral Priorities #1 Protecting Human Life By
Sr. Joan Hart SSDN For the past several months, readers of this
web page have been considering the seven central themes of
Catholic social teaching. Now comes the task of translating the
theory into action on issues of the day. The U.S. bishops have
given us some direction in their recent statement on Faithful
Citizenship. As voting citizens, we are called to examine a
whole gamut of issues in their relationship to our faith. No
single issue should determine how we vote. No single candidate
agrees with us on all the issues. Protecting Human Life In their
section on "Moral Priorities for Public Life" the bishops choose
Protecting Human Life as their first of these moral priorities,
saying, "we have a duty to defend human life from conception
until natural death and in every condition." We would expect to
see abortion, euthana