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Vatican document condemns assaults on human dignity
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A Dignity Still to be Determined
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Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Releases Declaration on Human Dignity
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Communist China Has Been Satan’s Playground For Decades
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The Cost of “Making a Mess”
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Dr Thomas Ward: The War on Parents and Humanae Vitae
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Anthony Esolen “Thank God for Cultural Prejudices”
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The John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family formally requests Pope Francis to dismiss Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández.
PRI President Steven Mosher, a member of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family, reports that ...
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On this site, we present the most thorough and accurate history of artificial contraception, from its roots in the early twentieth century through the promulgation of Humanae Vitae in 1968. The brilliant work, authored by Professor Gonzalo Herranz of the University of Navarra, provides all you need to understand and defend God’s command to our first parents, “Be fruitful and multiply.” We offer below summaries of each chapter in English, each with a link to the full Spanish text.
Introduction
It will soon be fifty years since the publication of the Encyclical Humanae vitae of Blessed Pope Paul VI, a ...
1. The birth of modern contraception.
Summary: Chapter 1 The Origins Of Modern Contraception: Three Terms And Three Attitudes This chapter considers the origin of three ...
2. Early contraception and its rejection of abortion
Summary: Chapter 2 The first contraception and its incompatibility with abortion In this chapter we will show how, in the ...
3. The medical profession and contraception: from contempt to acceptance
Summary: Chapter 3 The Medical Profession Before Contraception: From Rejection To Acceptance I. Introduction: Institutional Contempt For Contraception In general, and ...
4. Catholic doctors and the AMA resolutions on contraception
Summary: Chapter 4 Catholic Doctors and the Resolutions of the AMA on Contraception In this chapter we will study the ...
5. Jurists approve abortive contraception
Summary: Chapter V Jurists approve abortive contraception I. The Model Penal Code of the American Institute of Law (ALI) The ...
6. Changing words to change minds
Summary: Chapter 6 Changing words to change minds I. Introduction In the minds of its pioneers and in the opinion ...
7. The Medico-Biological Aspect of the Papal Commission for the Study of the Problems of the Family, Population, and Birth Rate
Summary: Chapter VII The Medico-Biological Aspect of the Papal Commission for the Study of the Problems of the Family, Population, ...
8.1 Protagonists in the Shadows: Edward C. Hughes
Summary: Chapter VIII (I) Protagonists in the shade (I): Edward C. Hughes y Raymond Holden I. Edward C. Hughes and ...
8.2 Protagonists in the Shadows: Thomas Hayes and Alan S. Parkes
Summary: Chapter VIII (II) Protagonists in the shadows (II): Thomas Hayes and Alan S. Parkes I. Hayes and the "reproductive act" ...
9.1 Scientific Research on Contraception: The “Abuse of Power” Ethos
Summary: Chapter IX.1 Scientific Research On Contraception: The “Abuse-of-Power” Ethos This chapter aims to review some ethical aspects of clinical ...
9.2 Scientific Research on Contraception: The “Zoological” Ethos
Summary: Chapter IX.2 Scientific Research On Contraception: Zoological Ethos Modern contraceptive research was conceived from the beginning as female contraception ...
Responsible Parenthood of ‘Humanae Vitae’ Requires Virtue
"In Humanae Vitae, Saint Paul VI explained that couples who have “serious” and “well-grounded reasons” to avoid the conception of a new ...
Wow – You Mean Hell is Real?
Is anything sinful anymore? Father Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., thinks so. A member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, he ...
A Great Opportunity to Celebrate Saint John Paul II’s Valiant Defense of Life
Today Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City commemorates the 25th anniversary of The Gospel of Life (Evangelium vitae): “As we ...
Moral And Social Damage Done By The Pill Is Still Disturbing
Sixty years have passed since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first authorized physicians to prescribe a drug that would ...
Planned Parenthood’s gospel of sterility reeks of hatred. It reduces even great souls to pettiness and banality. PRI’s Dr. Christopher Manion explains.
Planned Parenthood’s Sterile Legacy of Extermination By Christopher Manion, Ph.D. Director, PRI’s Humanae Vitae Project Some 35 years ago, Mrs ...
But Isn’t NFP Just Contraception By Another Name?
In a brief letter, Saint John Paul II considers NFP in its indispensable context of the Church’s teaching on the ...
Washington Archdiocese Monsignor Charles Pope makes a call to arms
Washington Archdiocese Monsignor Charles Pope makes a call to arms: There is legislation in Congress which may be voted on ...
Dr. Janet Smith’s blockbuster presentation on Contraception
Dr. Janet Smith’s blockbuster presentation, “Contraception: Why Not?”, delivers so many revelations that a million listeners have downloaded it. How ...