ROME has spoken,” runs an ancient proverb of the Roman Catholic Church. “The case is closed.” No longer true. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated his encyclical on birth control, which ...

ASK THE ETHICISTS: The Church teaches that direct sterilization and contraception are always immoral regardless of good intentions, but indirect sterilization is another matter. Polycystic ovary ...

It was bombshell news in the Catholic Church and it was on the front page. In April 1967, when the National Catholic Reporter published the secret recommendations of the Papal Commission on Birth ...

Most U.S. Catholics disagree with the church’s stance on a number of issues, including the use of contraceptives, according to a new poll. The latest Pew Research Center poll, released Thursday, finds ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed. A new report from the Guttmacher ...

ST. LOUIS -- It has been so long since most U.S. Catholics have even debated the moral implications of contraception that statisticians no longer regularly ask them what they think of birth control.

Many on the right suggest that birth control is part of a plot to keep birth rates low or even aid the supposed replacement ...

Pew Research Center. 2025. “Errata: Many Catholics in the U.S. and Latin America Want the Church to Allow Birth Control and to Let Women Become Priests .” doi: 10.58094/khzr-0505. Fresh data delivered ...