Christ ‘Taught as One Having Authority’ — and So Must His Church
The response to Humanae Vitae was immediate, vitriolic, predictable — and avoidable.
The response to Humanae Vitae was immediate, vitriolic, predictable — and avoidable.
Paul VI did not shy away from the suffering that would follow from reiterating the Church’s ancient teaching on contraception.
Amid a push to expand access to contraceptives post-Roe, Catholics speak out about the pill’s dangers.
In high-income countries, five years of use of combined or progestogen-only contraceptives has a 15-year ‘excess risk’ of breast cancer dependent on age, according to researchers.
Though plans have not yet been finalized, the university’s student government has proposed purchasing the pills in bulk and selling them in a campus community hall.
‘Our experience and science confirm that it is possible to follow and apply the teachings of the Catholic Church and accompany couples in their specific situations without departing from the teachings of Humanae Vitae.’
As we mark National NFP Week, there have been confusing ideas coming from the Pontifical Academy of Life that seem to imply that the Church’s teaching on contraception can “develop” to allow the use of artificial contraception.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the spate of new bills is necessary to resist a ‘dark desire to punish and control America’s most intimate and personal decisions.’
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 228-195 to pass a bill Thursday that would establish a right to access, use and provide contraceptives in federal law.
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