WASHINGTON — Nearly 50 years after the “prophetic” papal document Humanae Vitae, the Catholic Church’s long-standing teaching against contraception continues to promote the human good, said a group of ...

After an initial period of intense resistance to its teaching, scholars have increasingly appreciated its merits, sparking new campus initiatives. In 1986, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the ...

It's a strange church that would see the anniversary of its ban on contraceptives as a cause for celebration. But in perhaps one of the more curious displays of Catholic exceptionalism, Catholic ...

Humanae Vitae: On July 29, 1968, Pope Paul VI published his encyclical on the regulation of birth, introducing what we call here the Humanae Vitae affair. Now approaching its golden jubilee, the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The controversy over Humanae Vitae, the papal encyclical that reaffirmed Catholic teaching on contraception 50 years ago, cannot be understood apart from the context of a ...

Humanae Vitae -- the encyclical issued by Pope Paul VI that reaffirmed teachings of the Catholic Church concerning marriage and family, the sanctity of life, sex within marriage and responsible ...

Though accused of misogyny, Pope Paul VI in fact foresaw that the contraceptive society would lead to disrespect for women, reducing them to instruments for the pleasuring of men. While pondering last ...

In July 1965 a Gallup poll asked Catholic Americans if they thought their Church would ever approve of birth control. Sixty-one percent of the respondents replied yes. There was just cause for ...

ITALY:MORE THAN 50 dissident Catholic groups chose to mark yesterday's 40th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae, which effectively introduced the Catholic Church's ban on contraception, by ...