Appearing for the first time online, the Pontifical Council for the Family's Lexicon (Published by HLI) consists of articles which discuss terms used in in the media and international forums to conceal the true objectives of the culture of death. Otherwise innocuous-sounding terms such as "Safe Motherhood," "Reproductive Rights," and "Homophobia" are weapons in an insidious attack on traditional family values, and the Lexicon was requested by the late Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo to provide an intellectual basis to counter this assault.

Cardinal George Pell has said of it, "This long awaited English translation of the Lexicon will be an invaluable resource to all those who genuinely seek to understand the profound truth, goodness and beauty fo marriage and the family. It is a gift to the faithful to the broader community from the Church."

The Lexicon is intended particularly for students, laity, clergy and religious, lawyers, educators, NGO's and all who are working to defend life, faith and family.

The articles that are loaded are in bold, the others will be loaded as soon as possible. If using any Lexicon article for research, please use the citation below.

Acknowledgements

Preface by Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo

Endorsement by George Cardinal Pell
Endorsement by Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor
Endorsement by William Cardinal Keeler

About the Authors

Chapters

1.   "Assisted Procreation and IVF-ET," by Jean-Louis Bruguès.
2.   "What is Bioethics?," by Marc Lalonde.
3.   "Bioethics Committees," by Elio Sgreccia.
4.   "Biotechnology: the State and Fundamentalism," by Elio Sgreccia.
5.   "Birth Control and Demographic Implosion," by Michel Schooyans.
6.   "Catholics For A Free Choice," by Brian Clowes.
7.   "Child Labor," by Rosa Linda G. Valenzona.
8.   "Children's Rights and Sexual Violence," by Dorotas Kornas-Biela.
9.   "Conjugal Love," by Francisco Gil Hellín.
10.   "The Contraceptive Mentality," by Grzegorz Kaszak.
11.   "Contragestion," by Maria Luisa Di Pietro.
12.   "The Counseling of Pregnant Women in Germany," by Hans Reis.
13.   "De Facto Unions," by Héctor Franceschi.
14.   "A Demographic Implosion In Europe," by Gérard-François Dumont.
15.   "Demographic Transition and Policies," by Gérard-François Dumont.
16.   "The Dignity of the Child," by Leo Scheffczyck.
17.   "The Dignity of the Human Embryo," by Angelo Serra.
18.   "Discrimination Against Women and CEDAW," by Francisco Erràzuriz Ossa.
19.   "Domestic Economy," by Jean D. Lecaillon.
20.   "Embryonic Selection and Reduction," by Angelo Serra.
21.   "Enlarged Family," by Giorgio Campanini.
22.   "Euthanasia," by Ignacio Carrasco de Paula.
23.   "Equal Rights for Men and Women," by Georges Cottier.
24.   "Family and Personalism," by Fernando Moreno Valencia.
25.   "The Family And Philosophy," by Hayden Ramsay.
26.   "Family and Privatization," by Alfonso López Trujillo.
27.   "Family and the Rights of Minors," by Francesco D'Agostino.
28.   "Family and the Principle of Subsidiarity," by Jose Luis Gutierrez Garcia.
29.   "Family and Sustainable Development," by Alban D'Entremont.
30.   "Family Counseling Centers," by Luigi Pati.
31.   "The Family, Nature and the Person," by Jean Marie Meyer.
32.   "Fertility and Continence," by Rita Joseph.
33.   "Free Choice," by William E. May.
34.   "Gender," by Jutta Burggraf.
35.   "Genome and the Family," by Roberto Colombo.
36.   "Hardness of Heart: A Future Possibility," by Juan Antonio Reig Pla.
37.   "Homosexuality and Homophobia," by Tony Anatrella.
38.   "Homosexual "Marriage"," by Aquilino Polaino-Lorente.
39.   "The Human Person and Integral Procreation," by Abelardo Lobato.
40.   "An Ideology of Gender: Dangers and Scope," by Oscar Alzamora Revoredo.
41.   "Imperfect And Unjust Laws," by Angel Rodríguez Luño.
42.   "Indissoluble Marriage," by Francesco Di Felice.
43.   "Informed Consent," by Angel Galindo García.
44.   "The Legal Status of the Human Embryo," by Rodolfo-Carlos Barra.
45.   "Principle of the Lesser Evil," by Francisco Fernàndez-Sànchez.
46.   "Manipulation of Language," by Warwick Neville.
47.   "Marriage with Disparity of Cult," by Cosmo Francesco Ruppi.
48.   "Marriage, Divorce and Conscience," by Dr. Francisco López-Illana.
49.   "Medical Interruption of Pregnancy (MIP)," by Jean-Marie Le Méné.
50.   "Mixed Marriages and Discrimination," by Cosmo Francesco Ruppi.
51.   "Motherhood and Feminism," by Janne Haaland Matlary.
52.   "Neutral Genetic Counseling," by Gonzalo Herranz Rodríguez.
53.   "New Definitions of Gender," by Beatriz Vollmer de Coles.
54.   "New Family Models," by Joseph Hagan.
55.   "New Human Rights," by Abelardo Lobato Casado.
56.   "A New Model for the Welfare State," by José Tomàs Raga.
57.   "A New Paradigm of Health," by Renzo Paccini.
58.   "Parenthood," by Abelardo Lobato Casado.
59.   "Personalization," by Abelardo Lobato Casado.
60.   "Partial Birth Abortion," by Jacques Suaudeau.
61.   "Patriarchy and Matriarchy," by Vittorio Mathieu.
62.   "Pre-Implantation And Emergency Contraception," by John Wilks.
63.   "Pro-Choice," by Joseph & Michael Meaney.
64.   "Quality of Life," by Renzo Paccini.
65.   "Recomposed Families," by Anna Kwak.
66.   "Reproductive Health," by Lino Ciccone.
67.   "Responsible Parenthood," by Carlo Caffara.
68.   "Right to Abortion," by Alicja Grzeskowiak.
69.   "The Rights of the Child," by Marie-Thérèse Hermange.
70.   "Safe Motherhood," by José-Romàn Flecha.
71.   "Safe Sex," by Jacques Suaudeau.
72.   "Sex Education," by Aquilino Polaino-Lorente.
73.   "Sexual and Reproductive Rights," by José Alfredo Peris Cancio.
74.   "Sexual Identity And Difference," by Angelo Scola.
75.   "The Single-Parent Family," by Christa Meves.
76.   "Traditional Family," by Sergio Belardinelli.
77.   "Verbal Engineering," by Ignacio Barreiro.

Citation: Lexicon: Ambiguous and Debatable Terms Regarding Family Life and Ethical Questions, ed. Meaney, Joseph, Pontifical Council for the Family (Front Royal, VA: Human Life International) 2006.