Standing with Peter

In 1968, William May signed a document dissenting from Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae, in whihc the Pope reafirmed the Church's teacning against artificial birth control. In Dr. May's own words, "Signing this document was on my part a cowardly dead." But God, in his providence, used this mistake to launch the career of one of the Catholic Church's outstanding moral theologians-who now 'stands with Peter' on Humanae vitae. This is his story in his own words.