The Pill and Birth Regulation: The Catholic Debate, Including Statements, Articles, and Letters from the Pope, Bishops, Priests, and Married and Unmarried LaityLeo Pyle What will be the final solution to "the problem of the pill"? It is a complicated question, involving simultaneously: the exact biological and psychological facts, the population explosion, the nature of the natural law, the precise method of applying its principles, the problem of authority and infallibility, the value of the layman's knowledge and experience, the true nature of asceticism and the spiritual life, the real meaning of marriage and of the sacrament of matrimony--all intricately interwoven. Here is the complete spectrum in all its painful immediacy--casting light on what will be the Church's ultimate position. |
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B The Storm in Great Britain | 35 |
The Storm in America | 74 |
A Archbishop Roberts | 85 |
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