VATICAN CITY — Half way through the first synod on the family, when it was becoming clear that heterodox agendas were being pursued in heavy-handed and deceptive ways, a well-respected Church figure ...

When I recently read about the new assault within the Church on Pope Blessed Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on contraception, I was deeply disturbed. Humanae Vitae told the truth about contraception and ...

In July 1965 a Gallup poll asked Catholic Americans if they thought their Church would ever approve of birth control. Sixty-one percent of the respondents replied yes. There was just cause for ...

In war-traumatized Sri Lanka -- where Catholics who feared that rival politicians would use the trip for political advantage had urged Francis not to come -- he deftly maneuvered through competing ...

Humanae Vitae -- the encyclical issued by Pope Paul VI that reaffirmed teachings of the Catholic Church concerning marriage and family, the sanctity of life, sex within marriage and responsible ...

In this 2013 file photo, a family is seen on their family farm in St. Leo, Kan. (Credit: Tyler Orsburn/CNS.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty years ago, an encyclical was released affirming a long-held ...

"Hildebrand provided one of the first lengthy defenses of Humanae Vitae...His treatment does not ignore the procreative meaning of the sexual act, but, rather than placing the crux of the argument ...

ROME – The professor who chaired a Vatican study group on Humanae Vitae stressed that Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical “needs no updating.” Marengo told CNA that, according to his studies, “one of the ...

It's a strange church that would see the anniversary of its ban on contraceptives as a cause for celebration. But in perhaps one of the more curious displays of Catholic exceptionalism, Catholic ...

(RNS) — Many Catholics left the church over the teaching, but even more stayed and simply ignored it, giving rise to the concept of 'cafeteria Catholics,' who picked and chose which teachings they ...

Pope Paul VI greets the crowd as he visits a Roman parish in April 1972 (Photo: CNS). MANCHESTER, England (CNS) — Nearly 500 British priests have signed a statement in support of the papal encyclical ...