To: marshmallow
I was but a toddler at the time, but wasn’t the world excited at the prospect of the Church taking an enlightened view of contraception (the bishops were for it!) then, the pope issued Humanae Vitae?
3 posted on
10/15/2014 6:20:21 AM PDT by
Oratam
To: Oratam
“...wasn’t the world [in 1968] excited at the prospect of the Church taking an enlightened view of contraception (the bishops were for it!) then, the pope issued Humana Vitae?”
Exactly what I have been thinking.
5 posted on
10/15/2014 6:33:48 AM PDT by
utahagen
To: Oratam
I remember it well, and I pray for a similar ending to this mess.
10 posted on
10/15/2014 8:01:01 AM PDT by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: Oratam
I was actually present in the semi private audience when Pius V first announced this encyclical. I didn’t understand the full impact until years later.
20 posted on
10/15/2014 9:32:26 AM PDT by
Mercat
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