Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader

For the 25th anniversary year of the historic document Humanae Vitae(1968), Janet Smith has gathered together twenty-one outstanding essays and articles by well-respected thinkers to provide the demonstration that Pope Paul VI was not simply correct, but prophetic. While this document is still widely neglected and misunderstood, the Church continues to proclaim that contraception is a moral evil and that the view of man, sexuality, and marriage that leads to the use of the Pill is not one that is compatible with human dignity, sexual responsibility and spousal love.

Many are unaware that there have been energetic and persuasive worth defenses of this teaching. The general reader, as well as the ethicist and moral theologian, will find much here to stimulate his thinking on this issue. Contributors include William May, Paul Quay, Elizabeth Anscombe, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Carlo Caffara, Cormac Burke, Ralph McInerny, John Kippley, John Finnis and Janet Smith.

• Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right
• On Human Life: Humanae Vitae
• Humanae Vitae, a Generation Later
• Humanae Vitae, 50th Anniversary Edition
• Self-Gift: Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II (Renewal Within Tradition)
• The Smoke of Satan: How Corrupt and Cowardly Bishops Betrayed Christ, His Church, and the Faithful . . . and What Can Be Done About It
• The Catholic All Year Compendium: Liturgical Living for Real Life
• Calm in Chaos: Catholic Wisdom for Anxious Times
• In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
• Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah