enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Christian views on birth control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_birth...

    Catholic scholar Cormac Burke has written an anthropological (non-religious) evaluation of the effect of contraception on marital love, "Married Love and Contraception", arguing, "contraception does in fact denaturalize the conjugal act, to the extent that, far from uniting the spouses and expressing and confirming the love between them in a ...

  3. Catholic theology of sexuality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_theology_of_sexuality

    The Church has been opposed to contraception for as far back as one can historically trace. [51] [52] Many early Catholic Church Fathers made statements condemning the use of contraception including John Chrysostom, Jerome, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus of Rome, Augustine of Hippo and various others.

  4. Pontifical Commission on Birth Control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Commission_on...

    The Pontifical Commission on Birth Control was a committee within the Roman Curia tasked with analyzing the modern impact of birth control on the Roman Catholic Church. The disagreements within the commission ultimately led to the publication of the encyclical Humanae vitae .

  5. Humanae vitae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanae_vitae

    In this encyclical Paul VI reaffirmed the Catholic Church's view of marriage and marital relations and a continued condemnation of "artificial" birth control.Referencing two Papal committees and numerous independent experts examining new developments in artificial birth control, [4] Paul VI built on the teachings of his predecessors, especially Pius XI, [5] Pius XII [6] and John XXIII, [7] all ...

  6. Sex and gender roles in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_roles_in...

    The Catholic Church responded to this new development by issuing the papal encyclical Casti connubii on 31 December 1930. The 1968 papal encyclical Humanae vitae is a reaffirmation of the Catholic Church's traditional view of marriage and marital relations and a continued condemnation of artificial birth control. [73]

  7. Religion and birth control - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_birth_control

    The Jewish view on birth control currently varies between the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform branches of Judaism. Among Orthodox Judaism, the use of birth control has been considered only acceptable for use in certain circumstances, for example, when the couple already has two children or if they are both in school.

  8. Abortion and the Catholic Church in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_and_the_Catholic...

    Following the 1968 publication of Humanae Vitae, an encyclical by Pope Paul VI that expressly forbade abortion and most methods of birth control [9] and that sowed controversy within the church over its restatement of the prohibition on birth control, [10] Catholic bishops in the United States started to stress anti-abortion views as a central facet of Catholic identity and preached against ...

  9. Theology of Pope Benedict XVI - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theology_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI

    One could call it a period of restoration of the pre-council Roman regime. [43] Benedict XVI's views were similar to those of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, in maintaining the traditional positions on birth control, abortion, and homosexuality and promoting Catholic social teaching. In his biography journalist John L Allen, Jr. portrayed ...