Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader

Editor-Kanet E. Smith

ISBN 10: 0898704332 / ISBN 13: 9780898704334

Published by Ignatius Press June 1993, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader
• Publisher: Ignatius Press June 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898704332
• ISBN 13: 9780898704334
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Janet E. Smith, Ph.D., holds the Father Michael McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.