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Casti Connubii was promulgated by Pope Pius XI in response to the approval of the use of contraception by the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930. It stresses the sanctity of marriage and reaffirms traditional Catholic teaching against contraception and abortion.

—“The primary end of marriage is the procreation and the education of children.”20 18. Nor must We omit to remark, in fine, that since the duty entrusted to parents for the good of their children is of such high dignity and of such great importance, every use of the faculty given by God for the procreation of new life is the right and the privilege of the married state alone, by the law of God and of nature, and must be confined absolutely within the sacred limits of that state. 19. The second blessing