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Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae addresses marriage, sexuality and the regulation of births. It reiterates Catholic teaching on the procreative and unitive purposes of marital relations and, based on this, reaffirms traditional Catholic teaching against contraception.

love is above all fully human, a compound of sense and spirit. It is not, then, merely a question of natural instinct or emotional drive. It is also, and above all, an act of the free will, whose trust is such that it is meant not only to survive the joys and sorrows of daily life, but also to grow, so that husband and wife become in a way one heart and one soul, and together attain their human fulfillment. It is a love which is total—that very special form of personal friendship in which husband