Humane Vitae: Memories of an Encyclical
source: http://www.humanaevitaepriests.org/hv_2008-08-07.html
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Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae in July 1968, a month after I became a Catholic at Oxford. “Great expectations” were abroad. Experts predicted “a change” in Church teaching on birth control. A pamphlet from Ealing Abbey prepared women for change. It vanished when the papal teaching appeared! I regret not buying a copy - a collector’s item.
However, quieter voices said that “a change” was out of the question. This would reverse accepted and constant moral teaching, set out by Pius XI in Casti connubii and repeated by Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes., 50,51. But quieter voices were ignored in the Sixties, a confused era for Catholics seeking moral guidance on spacing childbirths.
However, quieter voices said that “a change” was out of the question. This would reverse accepted and constant moral teaching, set out by Pius XI in Casti connubii and repeated by Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes., 50,51. But quieter voices were ignored in the Sixties, a confused era for Catholics seeking moral guidance on spacing childbirths.
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