VATICAN CITY — Half way through the first synod on the family, when it was becoming clear that heterodox agendas were being pursued in heavy-handed and deceptive ways, a well-respected Church figure ...

In war-traumatized Sri Lanka -- where Catholics who feared that rival politicians would use the trip for political advantage had urged Francis not to come -- he deftly maneuvered through competing ...

When I recently read about the new assault within the Church on Pope Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on contraception, I was deeply disturbed. Humanae Vitae told the truth about contraception and ...

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.– Surrounding the 1968 release of Humanae Vitae (“Of Human Life”) was the cultural context of the sexual revolution and a widespread fear about overpopulation following World War II, ...

In this 2013 file photo, a family is seen on their family farm in St. Leo, Kan. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years ago, an encyclical was released affirming a long-held ...

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 ...

When I teach the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” published in 1968, I usually do so with a class of undergraduate students at Boston College. I teach it after studying with them five other ...

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