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This page contains testimony, CCK position statements, resolutions, homilies and other resources prepared for use in public ways to promote the Church's teaching on human life and social justice with the hope of influencing public policy. Witnesses generally appear before committees of the Kentucky General Assembly. Resolutions and other documents are generally distributed to the press and through various other means.

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Letters

bulletDecember 20, 2007 -  Text of Bishops' Letter to Management and Union Representatives regarding settlement of strike of hospitals
bulletDecember 12, 2007 - Letter to Governor Steve Beshear regarding Medicaid Funding
bulletMay 10, 2006 - Letters urging support for the Protection of Marriage Amendment sent to Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Jim Bunning. Click on name to read letter.
bulletMarch 10, 2006 - Letters urging just and comprehensive immigration reform sent to Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Jim Bunning. Click on name to read letter.
bulletDecember 2005 - Kentucky Bishops write Governor Fletcher and urge him to adequately fund Medicaid in next budget and apply 2005 surplus to Medicaid now.
bulletMay 2005 - Letters from Kentucky's Bishops to Senator McConnell and Senator Bunning about Roe v.Wade litmus test in selecting Judges for the Federal Judiciary.
bulletOctober 18, 2004 - Bishops Urge Governor to Commute Thomas Bowling's Death Sentence to Life Without Parole.

Testimony

bulletMarch 5, 2008 - Testimony Opposing HB 304 Regarding Undocumented Immigrants and Employer Sanctions
bulletJanuary 24, 2006 - Testimony before House Labor and Industry Committee Supporting HB 378, an ACT related to minimum wage
bulletMay 2005 - Ed Monahan Testifies on Providing Lawyers for Poor Persons
bulletFebruary 2005 - Testimony Before House Appropriations and Revenue Committee Supporting Fair Tax Reform: HB 276 and HB 277
bulletMarch 2002 - Rev. Thomas (Tony) Smith Testifies on Cloning Bill (HB 138)
bulletOctober 2001 - Jane Chiles Opposes Death Penalty
bulletOctober 2001 - Rev. Pat Delahanty on Death Penalty and Mental Retardation
bulletAugust 2001 - CCK Urges State Earned Income Tax Credits
bulletOctober 1999 - Archbishop Kelly Urges Abolition of the Death Penalty
bulletFebruary 1998 - Kentucky's 4 Bishops Support Partial Birth Abortion Bill

Position Statements

bulletAugust 2007 - Position on HPV Vaccination & Parental Responsibility
bulletDecember 2005 - Health Care Is A Moral Right, A Safeguard Of Human Life
bullet Study and Discussion Questions for Heath Care is a Moral Right
bulletDecember 2004 - A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice: A Kentucky Call to Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration - revised December 2005.
bulletAugust 2004 - Principles of Taxation, Allocation of Revenue, Contributing to the Common Good
bulletAugust 2004 - Constitutional Amendment Promotes, Preserves, and Protects Marriage

Resolutions

bullet Louisville Deacon Community Statement on the Death Penalty
bullet Louisville Priest Council Calls For Abolition of the Death Penalty
bullet Owensboro Priests Urge Abolition of the Death Penalty

Homilies and Other Materials

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August, 2006 Immigration Reform: recognize that every many and woman is the image of God. This op-ed by Bishop John McRaith is another means by which the bishops hope to help Catholics understand the Church's teaching about welcoming migrants and treating them justly.

bullet June 1, 2006 - Statement On Separation of State Estate Tax from Federal Estate Tax
bulletFebruary 2006 - Homily of Bishop Ronald W. Gainer for Mass celebrated during the 2006 Catholics @ the Capitol event: click here to read this homily
bulletMarch 2005 - Social Security: A Social Insurance Program that Helps the Elderly, Children and the Disabled - Article by Executive Director, Ed Monahan, discussing principles to apply when determining morality of proposed changes in the Social Security Insurance program.
bulletMarch 2005 - A Tsunami's Coming to Kentucky. What Shall We Do? - Op-Ed on Tax-Reform by Executive Director, Ed Monahan
bulletSeptember 2004 - Questionnaire for Congressional Candidates and results. Click here for a black and white version; or here for a color version. Both are PDF files.
bulletFebruary 2000 - Homily on Capital Punishment - 6th Sunday of Year B
bullet False Mercy of Assisted Suicide by Archbishop Thomas Kelly, O.P.

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Last modified: April, 2008