Contraception in Christian Historical Thought

On July 25th, 1968, Pope Paul VI, the same Pope who gleefully ransacked the traditional Latin mass and replaced it with what is essentially a Lutheran Sunday service, issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae. The encyclical came after roughly a century of debate on the topic of contraception.

In this video we delve into the history of Christian thought on contraception and abortion, its origins, and how it shaped (or didn't shape) Humanae Vitae and the modern Roman Catholic and Orthodox positions.

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Unless otherwise stated, all citations are taken from ANF and NPNF series edited by Schaff.
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