Library: Religious Education: Ethical Issues

Pluralism

ABC Religion and Ethics
ABC Compass Program
The Retreat from Multiculturalism
: This paper explores the retreat from multiculturalism in Australia, in policy, practice
and rhetoric. The colonial settler society of Australia has, since the early 1970s, prided itself
on building a multicultural nation of migrants from diverse racial, religious and cultural backgrounds.
BBC program: Pluralism
The Challenge of Religious Diversity and Revitalisation
Australian religion is changing, becoming more diverse and revitalised.

Abortion

Religious Tolerance Organisation - the debate
Religious Tolerance organisation has information about abortion, about biases, definitions, public opinion, reducing the abortion debate, religious and ethical aspects, laws and whether abortions lead to medical problems later in life.
BBC - Abortion
The BBC provides comment on popular ethical issues including the ethics of war, euthanasia, human cloning, abortion, genetic engineering and designer babies.

Capital Punishment

BBC - Capital Punishment

Ethical Issues - Books in the d'Houet Library

These texts below are general discussions. The library holds a range of books on individual issues - please use the catalogue or seek assistance from staff in finding books on particular ethical issues..

170 ELL Chaos or clarity : encountering ethics . Elliott, Ray.

241.042 ENG Catholic ethical thinking for senior secondary students . Engebretson, Kathleen.