Kenya’s Catholic bishops provoke debate over public health and contraception
Nairobi, KenyaRNS There’s nothing strange about a Roman Catholic bishop in this east African nation calling for an end to the use of contraceptives. But when a bishop here cited Kenya’s acute shortage of priests late last year as a reason to obey the Vatican’s longstanding ban on artificial forms of family planning, he ignited […]
ESSAY: HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CAME TO OPPOSE BIRTH CONTROL
In an article first published on The Conversation, LISA MCCLAIN, professor of history and gender studies at Boise State University in the US, looks at the Catholic Church’s position on birth control, 50 years after the landmark ‘Humanae Vitae’…