ROME has spoken,” runs an ancient proverb of the Roman Catholic Church. “The case is closed.” No longer true. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated his encyclical on birth control ...

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 ...

Noonan, John. Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by Catholic Theologians and Canonists. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. Shannon, William H. The Lively Debate: The ...

Over the centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has reasoned its opposition to mechanical birth control on the basis of natural law: i.e., God gave man his sexual pleasure with a reproductive string ...

This Pew Research Center analysis explores views on the Catholic Church and Pope Francis among Catholics in Latin America and the United States. All seven countries in the survey have Catholic ...