Our Areas of Research

The links below will offer a survey of the evidence and arguments in favour of topics mentioned, with additional references to our more complete resources:

• Equality of Women in the Catholic Church
  • The Ordination of Women as Priests
  • The Ordination of Women as Deacons
  • Documented Appeal for the Re-instatement of the Ordained Diaconate for Women
• The Need for Democracy and Human Rights in the Catholic Church
  • Summary of Recommendations on Reforming the Exercise of Authority in the Catholic Church
  • A Proposed Constitution for the Catholic Church
• Christian Sexual Ethics
  • Christian Sexual Ethics (e.g. the meaning and purpose of sexuality, sexual orientation, LGBT ; family planning and artificial contraception, and so on)
  • Catholic Scholars’ Statement on the Ethics of Using Contraceptives
  • Recommendations on Revising Papal Teaching Concerning the Ethical Use of Contraceptives submitted to the Pontifical Academy for Life by the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research – 3rd of August 2017
  • Why Fertility Awareness Methods Based on Periodic Abstinence Cannot be the Solution to the Need for Contraceptives Worldwide
  • Christian Objections to Same Sex Relationships: An Academic Assessment
  • Catholic Scholars’ Statement on the Ethics of Free and Faithful Same Sex Relationships
• God in the Modern World
• Course on Interpreting Scripture (opens on a new website)
• The Interpretation of the Bible (forthcoming)