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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the neglected aspects of the teaching of St. Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae vitae, is its perspective on women. It is one of the ways that the encyclical is seen as prophetic or as retrograde, ...

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 ...

ROME – The professor who chaired a Vatican study group on Humanae Vitae stressed that Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical “needs no updating.” Marengo told CNA that, according to his studies, “one of the ...

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 ...

Forging Ahead in an AI-Infiltrated Entry-Level Job Market Audio By Carbonatix Fifty years ago this past Wednesday, Pope Paul VI issued a letter warning about how the sexual revolution was about to do ...

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 ...

The 50th anniversary of the publication of “Humanae Vitae” offers an opportunity to consider the distance we as a church and society have traveled since that original date. In July of 1968, human ...

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 ...