It tells the story of how the Irish State moved from a cosy symbiotic partnership with the Catholic Church since independence ...

The Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that human embryos manufactured through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are children, and therefore are protected under state law, got me thinking that how we present ...

"Hildebrand provided one of the first lengthy defenses of Humanae Vitae...His treatment does not ignore the procreative meaning of the sexual act, but, rather than placing the crux of the argument ...

The encyclical of Paul VI speaks of the true meaning of marriage and life. The danger of using contraceptives that transform love between men and women into the pursuit of pleasure as an end in itself ...

Fifty years ago this week, former government minister Mary O'Rourke was a teacher in Athlone while studying for a H Dip in Maynooth as Pope Paul VI published his Humanae Vitae encyclical in Rome. “I ...

I first read “Humanae Vitae”—which Pope Paul VI published 50 years ago July 29—when I was 21. As a senior at Tufts University, hardly a bastion of Christian belief, sheer curiosity brought me to the ...

[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series Crux pieces to come marking Humanae Vitae’s anniversary.] This Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the seventh, and final, encyclical ...

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 ...

(RNS) — Many Catholics left the church over the teaching, but even more stayed and simply ignored it, giving rise to the concept of 'cafeteria Catholics,' who picked and chose which teachings they ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Fifty years have passed since the bombshell of Humanae Vitae was dropped on the world, declaring the Catholic Church to be against artificial contraception and laying out a handbook ...

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 ...