ESSAY: ‘HUMANAE VITAE’ – SEX AND AUTHORITY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Fifty years after it was first released, Catholic priest THOMAS REESE looks at how the dispute among Catholics over the controversial papal encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae’ wasn’t just about sex but about church authority itself…
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’…