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Jul 9, 2018 · This month marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark “Humanae Vitae,” Pope Paul VI’s strict prohibition against artificial contraception, issued in the aftermath of the development of the birth...
May 14, 2024 · By Daniel Payne. CNA Staff, May 14, 2024 / 06:00 am. Recent data from the federally administered National Survey of Family Growth shows large majorities of Catholics report using at least one...
The articles, which cover examples from Western and East-Central Europe, East Africa and Latin America, all explore the complex interplay between users and providers of birth control in contexts marked by prevalence of the Catholic religion and/or strong political position of the Catholic Church.
- Agata Ignaciuk, Laura Kelly
- 2020
2 days ago · Catholics for Choice puts it this way: “ Humanae Vitae marked a turning point for the Catholic church, as Pope Paul rejected the theologically sound findings of his own Papal Birth Control Commission in favor of a turn to rigid orthodoxy.”. For many Catholics, Pope Pius XI’s 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii laid the issue of contraception ...
Jul 30, 2022 · On the subject of birth control, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for...
To some, the Catholic Church's consistent teaching against birth control may seem outdated. Yet with each passing year, evidence of contraception's negative consequences keeps piling up, revealing profound repercussions on women, children, families, and society.
Mark Massa S.J. argues in his recent book, The Structure of Theological Revolutions: How the Fight Over Birth Control Transformed American Catholicism, that the encyclical gave birth to a series of paradigm shifts in understanding what natural law is, and how it informs the moral life.
