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Controversial appointee to Vatican’s Academy for Life responds to her pro-life critics

February 13, 2024

ROME – Both the Italian archbishop who heads the Pontifical Academy for Life and an Ango-Italian economist who serves on it struck back at critics who claim their statements and views are at odds with traditional Catholic doctrine on sexual morality. Mariana Mazzucato, a Rome-born economist who’s served as an advisor to the UN, the

Humanae Vitae: have the first shots been fired in a coming war?

May 21, 2023

Italy’s current birthrate is 392,598 newborns per year, a staggering 30 percent drop since 2008, unsustainably low for any country. To avert catastrophe Italy must reach 500,000 newborns annually by 2033. Ever since his “Catholics shouldn’t breed like rabbits” comment in 2015, Pope Francis has not been popularly perceived as a person sympathetic to pro-natalist

Widespread dissent against Humanae Vitae put me off becoming a Catholic

July 26, 2018

Hostile reactions from Catholics against the encyclical suggest the Church has lost its mission

Contraception and IVF have damaged our society. Humanae Vitae offers a better answer

July 25, 2018

Both practices offered a technical fix for fertility - with grave consequences

By writing Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul showed true compassion

July 25, 2018

From 50 years ago, Archbishop John Murphy's tribute to the 'Magna Carta for the whole family'

Head of Vatican commission says contraception is ‘intrinsically wrong’

July 19, 2018

There had been speculation that Mgr Gilfredo Marengo's commission would challenge Church teaching

How Humanae Vitae changed the Church

July 19, 2018

After Paul VI released Humanae Vitae 50 years ago, Catholics split into warring tribes

Change teaching on contraception, British minister tells Church

July 16, 2018

Penny Mordaunt spoke after meeting the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life