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Contraception and Catholicism: What the Church Teaches and Why is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Angela Franks presents readers with a comprehensive look at the Catholic Church’s view on contraception, the meaning and purpose of sex as love and life, and unity and procreation. After she herself questioned the Church’s teaching on contraception—teaching many people see as outdated and misogynistic—Franks came to understand the Church’s position as simply aligned with the reality of our...

In order to understand what the popes teach about self-mastery, we have to understand better Margaret Sanger’s proposal that contraception is the great solution to social problems. Our society embraces Sanger’s worldview without a second thought. It is always helpful to step back and be critically minded. If birth control is the solution, what is the problem? The problem must be biological; the problem must be fertility. In particular,
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