Don't forget to look into the Bishop Helmsing Institute operated by the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph by going to the diocesan web site, you can sign up for courses some as short as one month and deepen your walk with our Lord, Jesus Christ.  Click Here to go to the Diocesan Bishop Helmsing Institute web site.  Meet the faculty, examine the courses and enroll or apply for tuition assistance. Phone them at 816-756-1850.  The courses include:

Year I                                                       Year II                                            Year III

Spiritual Life I                                       Catholic Morality                            Church History

Biblical Foundations                              Marriage and Family                      Vatican II and Beyond

Creed                                                     Old Testament                                 Writings of the Saints

Apologetics                                            Liturgy and Sacraments                  Social Doctrine and Justice

Gospels                                                 Acts and Epistles                              Tools of Evangelization & Catechesis

Weekend Seminar                                Theology of the Body Seminar         Called and Gift Seminar

                                                                                                                           Parish Life Practicum or other elective

**Year I courses offered this fall semester at St. James in St. Joseph, Mo. and in Kansas City at the following locations: St. Therese North (Parkville area), St. Louis Parish, O'Hara High School and at the Chancery in the Westport area and St. Peter's.  Year II courses will be offered at St. Andrew the Apostle (Gladstone), St. John LaLande, Good Shepherd (Smithville), St. Louis parish and at the Chancery.  For a complete schedule go to the Bishop Helmsing Institute web site by clicking here.

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"Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy?"  Click here to find out. 

Note: Embryonic Stem Cell is not about cures (there have been none in 20 years of research; only with adult stem cell lines); it is about human cloning (somatic cell nuclear transfer), making our women egg factories for research requiring hormone injections that have adverse effects in 35% of the women undergoing the injections; most important, it leads to the destruction of a human embryo and this is a devaluing of human life which is morally bankrupt. 

Adult Stem Cell Cures. There are over 2,000 FDA-approved clinical trials underway in the U.S. deploying stem cells. All are using adult sources of these tissues. None involve the killing of embryos. Additionally, there are no FDA approved trials for stem cells derived from embryos. Click here to read more.

There are also techniques to reprogram an adult somatic cell back to a state of pluripotency (in other words, to convert it directly to an embryonic-like stem cell). In both these methods, no embryos are created, no embryos are destroyed.  Researchers have been reprogramming skin cells to behave like so-called pluripotent stem cells (meaning they can grow into any organ or cell type in the body) since 2006.  Read more by clicking here. All citizens could in good faith support these methods of producing embryonic-type (pluripotent) stem cells.  There is no need to destroy life by using embryonic stem cells!

We lost the vote for Amendment 2 in Missouri but the fight for life goes on.  Contact your parish pro-life director and if your parish doesn't have one, phone Adrienne at 756-1850 and ask about starting one.   For information on working in the pro-life office, please call (816) 756-1850 and ask for Adrienne Doring.  For more information on the stem cell issue, Click Here.  For more information on what Catholics should consider in voting, see the Bishop's column Here.

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