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Despite the disagreements that led them into divorce court in the first place, the New Jersey couple were agreed on at least one point: since they were both Jews, they wanted their two children raised as Jews. Nor was there much question about custody. As usual, it went to the...
Ecumenical Disaster. Protestant and secular opinion on the encyclical was almost wholly disapproving. In Geneva, Secretary Eugene Carson Blake of the World Council of Churches declared: "It is disappointing that the initiative taken in 1963 to re-examine the traditional Roman Catholic position on family planning seems to have ended...
In a long and thoughtful introduction, the encyclical cites the many reasons put forward by theologians, Catholic and Protestant alike, in favor of birth control: the population explosion, the economic difficulties involved in raising a large family, new insights into the psychological nature of sexual experience. In the end, though...
Into the Lifeboat. Some argue that the Pope's grudging approval of only one medically inadequate means of controlling birth-the rhythm method-is inconsistent with his acknowledgment that sex is important as an expression of a loving marital relationship. Forcing a man and wife to practice rhythm, says...
The Pope's suggestion that contraception leads to the degradation of women, noted Dr. Andre Hellegers, a professor of gynecology at Georgetown University, "was a gratuitous slap at Protestant wives." Mrs. Walter Campbell of Cambridge, Mass., a former president of the Massachusetts Planned Parenthood League, objected to the tone...