Everyone knows Monty Python. The British comedy troupe’s show, movies, and comedic style have thoroughly permeated culture, and not just popular culture. Indeed, the song “Every Sperm Is Sacred” from The Meaning of Life—Monty Python’s 1983 satirical comedy film attempting to make sense of existence—has become a shorthand refutation of Catholic sexual teaching, especially its prohibition of artificial contraception. The song is all too familiar to the beleaguered defenders of Catholic teaching. Sung in Meaning by a patriarch of a poor... Read more