Dr. Janet Smith’s blockbuster presentation, “Contraception: Why Not?”, delivers so many revelations that a million listeners have downloaded it. How does contraception affect your love life? How does it affect the men you meet? What does secular science say about The Pill’s impact on your love life? And don’t miss the “T-shirt Test” – it …
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Washington Archdiocese Monsignor Charles Pope makes a call to arms: There is legislation in Congress which may be voted on as early as this week which should alarm you if you care at all about women, what is true, what is scientific and what pertains to free speech and religious liberty. It is the known …
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In a brief letter, Saint John Paul II considers NFP in its indispensable context of the Church’s teaching on the truth of the act of love. Here “spouses become sharers in God’s creative action,” never putting aside the sacred character of their vocation. Read this brief, lucid letter here:http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/awareness-week/upload/Why-NFP-Differs-from-Contraception-JPII.pdf
Planned Parenthood’s Sterile Legacy of Extermination By Christopher Manion, Ph.D. Director, PRI’s Humanae Vitae Project Some 35 years ago, Mrs. Alice du Pont Mills invited me to visit her in her expansive Virginia horse farm – several thousand acres of it – about an hour west of Washington. At the time, I was Staff Director …
Sixty years have passed since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first authorized physicians to prescribe a drug that would subvert the institution of motherhood. May 9, 1960, was the day on which the authorization was granted; it was, by ironic coincidence, the day after Mothers’ Day, and Father George Welzbacher looks at the damage …
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Today Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City commemorates the 25th anniversary of The Gospel of Life (Evangelium vitae): “As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord on March 25, we also mark the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s prophetic encyclical, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium vitae). Here, this saint provides a clear challenge …
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Is anything sinful anymore? Father Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., thinks so. A member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, he discusses the concept with clarity and candor in this helpful and informative two-part essay. Part 1:https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/03/15/god-and-hell/ Part 2:https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/03/21/god-and-hell-part-two/
“In Humanae Vitae, Saint Paul VI explained that couples who have “serious” and “well-grounded reasons” to avoid the conception of a new human life could morally limit the marital act the infertile times of the wife’s natural cycles (HV §16). How do we consider those reasons? Susanna Spencer suggests that we rely on the Cardinal Virtue of prudence.” …
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Summary: Chapter IX.2 Scientific Research On Contraception: Zoological Ethos Modern contraceptive research was conceived from the beginning as female contraception. Male contraception, although in recent years it has received considerable attention, has remained secondary. A consequence of such an approach was the development, among researchers of female contraception, of a mentality that could be …
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Summary: Chapter IX.1 Scientific Research On Contraception: The “Abuse-of-Power” Ethos This chapter aims to review some ethical aspects of clinical trials conducted by researchers who developed hormonal contraception. When reviewing the clinical studies on contraception in women, one detects in many of them the commission of irregularities of method and ethics of varied nature …
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