Contraception

January 2018

January 20, 2018
Many years ago I wrote a post on survey data from the Guttmacher Institute on...

August 2014

August 02, 2014
I think it would be fair to say that two vexatious questions for the Catholic...

July 2014

July 20, 2014
If I have been largely silent on the subject of contraception, it has been for two...

June 2013

June 28, 2013
(Updated 6/28/2013, 2:45 EDT) Health and Human Services today released the new rules on the...

November 2012

November 16, 2012
A minor story out of Canada, reported by the Religious News Service, may provide a...

August 2012

August 12, 2012
From the conclusion of Souls and Bodies:  The Birth Control Controversy and the Collapse of...

July 2012

July 22, 2012
In support of the USCCB's National NFP Awareness Week, I'd like to share this excerpt...

June 2012

June 16, 2012
I was recently talking with a friend (a nondenominational Protestant) who is planning her wedding. ...

May 2012

May 07, 2012
Fr Frank Brennan SJ, professor of law at the Public Policy Institute, Australian Catholic University,...

March 2012

March 03, 2012
The recent HHS mandate requiring that every health insurance plan cover contraceptives has put Catholic...
March 02, 2012
In my reading of the Catechism for my diaconate formation program, I came across a...

February 2012

February 20, 2012
George Weigel has a column today at National Review titled "The Catholic Betrayal of Religious...
February 12, 2012
Quote of the nanosecond: Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this...
February 04, 2012
From the U.S. Bishops website: The Obama administration, to justify its widely criticized mandate for...

January 2012

January 31, 2012
It would seem that Bishop Morlino does not view providing insurance coverage for contraception as...
January 31, 2012
We live in a society which lives on and thrives on narrative.  What is believed...

August 2011

August 03, 2011
I have always been curious about the role of demography in the spread of religion. ...

April 2011

April 14, 2011
The Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, has released a new report on...

January 2011

January 14, 2011
It is not uncommon to hear the (usually rhetorical) question, "Why is the Church  so...
January 03, 2011
In the furor over the Pope's comments on condoms this rather remarkable passage from Light...

December 2010

December 11, 2010
“I’ve got 44-year-olds who show up in my office after trying two months and say,...

November 2010

November 23, 2010
I have to admit it.  I thought Benedict was hedging his bets when he chose...
November 20, 2010
The internet, it is safe to say, is now abuzz with the news that, according...

March 2010

March 29, 2010
Despite the question of whether or not John Wain was an Inklings,[1] he shows himself...
March 12, 2010
As many readers will already be aware, my wife and I experience some difficulty in...
March 02, 2010
Television is both a reflection of the culture at large but also the means by...

January 2010

January 11, 2010
Readers who have been watching Vox Nova for a while know that one of my...

September 2009

September 24, 2009
A friend of mine recently had a baby who was born with a hearing problem. ...

August 2009

August 30, 2009
In spite of the ideological cleft [in the american Church], it is possible for reasonable...
August 07, 2009
The past week Canada’s national newsweekly, Maclean’s, ran an article about the voluntarily childless.  Later...
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