Ross Douthat on the wisdom and perils of Catholic teaching on birth control

As a critique of culture, and as an expression of the gulf between the modern West’s understanding of sexuality and the traditional Christian approach to love and sex and marriage, the Church’s brief against artificial birth control looks, if anything, much more compelling today than it did when Pope Paul VI reaffirmed it in the famous/infamous 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/condoms-catholicism-and-casuistry/?nl=opinion&emc=tyb1