The Church Was Right on Birth Control
Posted by DariaSockey in News on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
It’s been a good week to be a believing Catholic in the United States. Tumultuous, but good. It’s a cause of legitimate pride to see our Bishops taking a bold stand against the HHS contraception sterilization mandate. It’s been gratifying to see so many non-Catholics joining us in protest. Whatever they think of the Church’s teaching on contraception—and we can assume most of them disagree with it—they... READ MORE
The Pill At 50
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
You have to read this remarkable article on the pill at 50.
Not much in it will surprise you—except for the fact it made the cover of New York magazine.
The author doesn’t share the Church’s moral outlook, yet wants women to think hard about whether being on a drug that makes you fake pregnant for years at a time doesn’t have a downside.
for the wheatgrass-and-yoga generation, there’s something about... READ MORE
Raquel Welch's Wake Up Call
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Monday, May 10, 2010
The 50th anniversary of the Pill has many major news sources running some interesting articles and commentary on modern day contraception.
The most interesting to me, so far, has been It’s sex o’clock in America by Raquel Welch at CNN.
She begins with a brief history of the sexual revolution from her own point of view—that of a 19-year-old wife facing an unplanned pregnancy in the 1960’s. Though she’s... READ MORE
Not on the Same Page
Posted by Sara Fox Peterson in Marriage on Monday, October 05, 2009
Ideally a Catholic’s obligation never to use contraception or be sterilized would be something discussed, understood and agreed upon before the couple was married—while there was still time to call off the wedding if it became obvious that remaining faithful to Church teaching and marrying this particular person would be incompatible.
It often happens, however, that people marry and one experiences... READ MORE
The Inventor’s Repentance
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, January 12, 2009
Austria’s Der Standard recently published an op-ed by the co-inventor of the pill blaming his own invention for “demographic catastrophe” and wishing he’d had nothing to do with it.
It would be hard to exaggerate Carl Djerassi’s prominence in the world of science. An Austrian holocaust survivor who came to be educated in the United States with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, the man was feted by the... READ MORE
Humanae Vitae: Lasting Truth
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Tuesday, July 22, 2008
This week marks a big anniversary for the encyclical Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), which was promulgated July 25, 1968. Humanae Vitae is the Catholic Church’s historical refusal to cave on the issue of contraception. It affirms the beauty and dignity of marital love and shows how the nature of marriage precludes the licit use of artificial contraceptives. If you haven’t perused it lately, you... READ MORE
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