It’s a little pill with big responsibilities. But despite its primary role to prevent pregnancy, the contraceptive pill (or ...

There is a common misconception that the contraceptive pill causes cancer. Although some studies have linked the pill to an ...

Pop culture, schools, and the media all tell you that artificial birth control is a wonderful development of modernity. Explaining why they're wrong and the official Church teaching is correct can ...

They know that artificial means of birth control are morally wrong, and their priest recommended that they use NFP (Natural Family Planning). Yet they do not understand why NFP is OK if birth ...

However, many people would have serious moral objections to plans to use contraception in order to control population. One objection that isn't covered here is that the real cause of poverty and ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

Second, the Church does not oppose artificial contraception, not because it is artificial, but because there is so much that is artificial that is beneficial: artificial hearts have saved numerous ...

Then as now, the Catholic Church was opposed to artificial contraception. Even if the characters had been aware of different methods of birth control they may have been against using them.