So what does it matter what a celibate woman thinks about contraception?

“The right of Catholics to express disagreement with their leaders is a right as old as Peter and Paul.”

Though most Catholics say they use artificial contraception, the church is finding a receptive audience for Natural Family Planning programs.

It is not simply children whom we seek to design but our own selves.

Documents in the Vatican Secret Archives and the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prove it was a "myth" that Blessed Paul VI largely set out on his own in writing "Humanae Vitae," the 1968 encyclical on married love and the regulation of births.