COMMENTARY: The declaration of religious freedom shattered the communist claim that there was no sanctuary of personal ...

COMMENTARY: The early history of the landmark document manifests the significant doctrinal development, which led the ...

In July 1965 a Gallup poll asked Catholic Americans if they thought their Church would ever approve of birth control. Sixty-one percent of the respondents replied yes. There was just cause for ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Fifty years have passed since the bombshell of Humanae Vitae was dropped on the world, declaring the Catholic Church to be against artificial contraception and laying out a handbook ...

As rumors abound concerning a Vatican commission to reinterpret Humanae vitae in light of Amoris laetitia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has rejected these rumors. "I can confirm ...

ROME -- Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae ("Of Human Life") has cut off the church from many of the people who most need its advice about human sexuality. The ...

A banner referencing “Humanae Vitae,” the 1968 encyclical of Blessed Paul VI, is seen in the crowd at the conclusion of the beatification Mass of Blessed Paul celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s ...

When I teach the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” published in 1968, I usually do so with a class of undergraduate students at Boston College. I teach it after studying with them five other ...

In war-traumatized Sri Lanka -- where Catholics who feared that rival politicians would use the trip for political advantage had urged Francis not to come -- he deftly maneuvered through competing ...

On July 20, Philippines Health Secretary Juan Flavier lashed out at the Roman Catholic Church in his largely Catholic country, accusing it of paralyzing the government's efforts to slow the nation's ...

Thank you for calling out the utter failure of China’s population control policies (“China’s One-Child Economic Disaster,” Review & Outlook, Oct. 19). There is more to this story, however, than brutal ...