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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.

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 and wife generously share everything, allowing no unreasonable exceptions and not thinking solely of their own convenience. Whoever really loves his partner loves not only for what he receives, but loves that partner for the partner’s own sake, content to be able to enrich the other with the gift of himself. Married love is also faithful and