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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.

unity, chastity, charity, honorable noble obedience, which are at the same time an enumeration of the benefits which are bestowed on husband and wife in their married state, benefits by which the peace, the dignity and the happiness of matrimony are securely preserved and fostered. Wherefore it is not surprising that this conjugal faith has always been counted amongst the most priceless and special blessings of matrimony. 31. But this accumulation of benefits is completed and, as it were, crowned