From the archive, three authors reflect on this influential encyclical and the feminist rebellion that inspired it.
PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
H. W. Longfellow
Gloria Steinem, the feminist who coined the phrase “reproductive freedom,” died last Wednesday. The encyclical Humanae Vitae challenged the ideas behind Steinem’s revolution. From the archive, three authors reflect on this influential encyclical and the feminist rebellion that inspired it.
Thirty years ago Pope Paul VI issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae (“Of Human Life”). It came as a chilling blast to liberal Catholics and others—the population control establishment, for example—who hoped for a major change in the Church’s stand on artificial contraception.
