Discussions around consent should become a commonplace feature of Catholic conversations about sexual ethics. They can serve especially as a corrective to the harmful use of “marital debt” rhetoric within Catholic culture.
Humanae Vitae
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholics: You don’t have to choose between ‘traditional family’ and ‘social justice’ goals
Falling marriage rates across the globe threaten vulnerable women and children. The Catholic Church can help if we put aside political idolatry and work as different members of the same body of Christ.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic teaching on birth control is unpopular. So why is pop culture starting to agree with it?
The more women learn about their bodies and experience the direct impact of hormonal contraception, the more this growing minority looks for alternatives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Melinda Gates and her struggles with the Catholic Church
Melinda Gates’s new book is not an attack on Catholicism but an honest accounting of how she came to be in conflict with the church while living her faith.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis declares Pope Paul VI, Óscar Romero saints
Pope Francis made clear that Paul VI and Archbishop Romero responded to the radical call of Jesus with “an undivided heart.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Birth control and the Church, 50 years later
Mark Massa invites the reader to reconsider not only the church’s teaching on artificial birth control, but also the methodologies used to arrive at that teaching.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Reflecting on “Humanae Vitae,” 50 years on
Our July 25 guest is Holly Taylor Coolman, an assistant professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. We discuss her recent article ‘50 years after Humanae Vitae,’ we still buy into the myth of the self-made man.’ We also discuss these articles: Vatican expert: To fight sex abuse, the Catholic Church must invest in women With ‘strongman […]
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How “Humanae Vitae” helped one nun find her feminist voice
So what does it matter what a celibate woman thinks about contraception?
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1968, America’s editors on ‘Humanae Vitae’
“The right of Catholics to express disagreement with their leaders is a right as old as Peter and Paul.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Infographic: ‘Humanae Vitae’ anniversary sees an emphasis on Natural Family Planning in the church
Though most Catholics say they use artificial contraception, the church is finding a receptive audience for Natural Family Planning programs.