Janet Smith explains why the Catholic Church keeps insisting, in the face of the opposite position held by most of the rest of the modern world, that contraception is one of the worst inventions of our time.
The pill has not been the blessing it was cracked up to be.
In the Year of St. Joseph, the celebration of Father's Day last Sunday stands, to the days that come after it, in much the same way as a feast day like Easter Sunday conditions the "ordinary time" in the rest of the year.
In addition to the fact that the sexual revolution made marriage harder for many women to achieve, it also licensed sexual predation on a scale not seen outside of conquering armies.
Except for the Internet, it's hard to think of any other single phenomenon since the 1960s that has re-shaped humanity around the world as profoundly as this particular revolution.
Some people hope that Pope Francis will change the Church's teaching on contraception. He won't. He couldn't even if he wanted to — as Church history and Scriptures show. Part two of two.
The Catholic Church's teaching on contraception, common to all Christian denominations for 1900 years, is not arbitrary. It reflects a moral truth. And the Catholic Church can never revise it. Part one of two.
"The Language of Love" is Bishop Conley's pastoral letter on the sacrificial nature of love and on the destructive nature of contraception.
"Mary Eberstadt is our premier analyst of American cultural foibles and follies, with a keen eye for oddities that illuminate just how strange the country's moral culture has become." - George Weigel
That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news.