Forty years after Pope Paul VI promulgated the teaching in a controversial encyclical, Pope Benedict upholds the Catholic church’s ban on artificial birth control, and warns that sex divorced from procreation can “transform itself into a drug.”
Reaffirming Humanae vitae
Forty years after Pope Paul VI promulgated the teaching in a controversial encyclical, Pope Benedict upholds the Catholic church’s ban on artificial birth control, and warns that sex divorced from procreation can “transform itself into a drug.”
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