The Dispatch
What’s changed since “Humanae Vitae”?
Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University is hosting a series of lectures on the 50th anniversary of Paul VI’s landmark encyclical, but some of the speakers aren’t […]
Humanae Vitae
The Dispatch
Paul VI, Prophet
Does anyone doubt that, in the last fifty years, we have seen a profound attenuation of marital fidelity? Could anyone possibly contest that the last […]
Features
Now is the time for a “Third Spring” in England
Famously, in 1852 John Henry Newman, preaching at a celebration of that restoration of our Hierarchy, spoke of a ‘Second Spring’. This yielded a rich […]
Features
Whose bourgeois morality?
We have met the bourgeois lobby, and it consists of German-speaking bishops. […]
Essay
What happened at the Vatican’s bio-extinction conference
A conference sponsored by two pontifical academies embraced a kind of environmental determinism that looks at human reproduction as a mere bio-technical issue. […]
Essay
“Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology
Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality? […]
The Dispatch
Canon law and that ‘Humanae vitae’ rumor
Too many Roman rumors, it seems of late, have turned out to be true (or close enough to true) to rule out recent rumors that a “papal commission” has been set up “to reconsider” (perhaps as a […]
Opinion
A new Vatican birth control commission?
A new birth control commission? Here’s hoping the reports out of Rome are only speculation, possibly generated by the fact that the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical condemning artificial contraception, is […]