Confessions of a birth control commission Catholic. (lay member of Vatican II commission)

National Catholic Reporter | December 17, 1993| | Copyright

Twenty-five years ago my husband, Pat, and I received a phone call in the middle of the night. A reporter asked what comment we wanted to make on the pope's new encyclical, Humanae Vitae. Four years, before that call, Nov. 24, 1964, Pat and I had received a letter from Pope Paul VI inviting us to be part of a special study group on population and birth control, a commission originally initiated by Pope John XXIII in 1963 and now being expanded by his successor.

We wondered if there were some doubt about the church's teaching on birth control. We had been married ...

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