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Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Cardinal Baldassare Reina as the grand chancellor ushers in a new era for the institute that had been directed away from John Paul II’s magisterium during Pope Francis’ pontificate.
Many Catholics have characterized the encyclical as ‘prophetic’
ASK THE ETHICISTS: The Church teaches that direct sterilization and contraception are always immoral regardless of good intentions, but indirect sterilization is another matter.
COMMENTARY: When readers drill down into women’s complaints about the pill, they don’t seem so illegitimate, and they certainly don’t fit the definition of ‘misinformation.’
The response to Humanae Vitae was immediate, vitriolic, predictable — and avoidable.
COMMENTARY: The state-level battles over abortion are exposing what decades of a widespread contraceptive mentality has done to the spiritual state of our nation.
Paul VI did not shy away from the suffering that would follow from reiterating the Church’s ancient teaching on contraception.
COMMENTARY: Paul VI’s prophetic encyclical — like the moral teachings of the Church more broadly — is both a pro-life and traditional encyclical and a progressive social encyclical.
Jesuit Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave the opening remarks at a May 19-20 congress on ‘Humanae Vitae,’ the 1968 landmark encyclical from St. Paul VI.
The renowned professor of natural law spoke last month at a Rome conference, convened in response to a recent Pontifical Academy for Life publication that challenged this teaching.
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