2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.

The Catholic Church recommends that children be baptized as soon as possible after birth. According to the Code of Canon Law (c. 867 §1), parents have the obligation to baptize their child within ...

How Pope Leo extended an invitation to all, regardless of faith, to foster a connected and compassionate world.

The Very Reverend Julian Large, the Provost of Brompton Oratory in West London referred in his homily to Fr Ian Vane, who ...

2018 marks the 50th Anniversary of the landmark papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, which declared artificial birth control "intrinsically disordered" and marked an ethical line in the sand that has ...

The 65-year-old Ambongo is one of Africa’s most outspoken Catholic leaders, heading the archdiocese that has the largest number of Catholics on the continent that seen as the future of the church.

U.S. Catholic leaders are ending their church’s 50-year partnership with the federal government and seeking new ways to help refugees.

But if the only permissible means of birth control is to shun sexual intercourse (either totally, or during a wife’s fertile period—the so-called rhythm method), how can the church hope to ...

Revision notes for CCEA GCSE Religious Studies - Birth of the Christian Church and development of Protestantism.

On balance, most Catholics in Latin America and the U.S. say the Catholic Church should allow Catholics to use birth control, allow women to become priests and allow cohabiting couples to receive ...

Artificial birth control was officially banned by the Catholic Church in 1930, in Pope Pius XI’s Casti Connubii, a statement on marriage and sexuality.