Category Archives: Spiritual

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: The Magic of Sexual Attraction There is some really good news for the ladies.   Here we have an article that reports: They say female chemical messengers, known … Continue reading →

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Elle: Sexual Chemistry This blurb from Elle, a woman’s fashion magazine, advises that “For years Prozac and the Pill have given women emotional stability and sexual freedom, … Continue reading →

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Reasons to Condemn Contraception: The Catholic Church condemns contraception because it is against nature, human nature.  Human nature is complex.  Certainly we are physical creatures and we … Continue reading →

As I stated in “Contraception Preamble“, I would provide my comments to this series of posts either as actual comments to each post or in a separate post.  This is my third Contraception Intermission for the series “Contraception: Why Not?” by … Continue reading →

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Catholics and Contraception In 1950, 66 percent of Catholics did not contracept.  By about 1975 or so, Catholics were contracepting at the same rate as the rest … Continue reading →

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Humanae Vitae Humanae Vitae was issued in 1968.  It is fair to say that it dropped on the world like a bomb.  It marked the beginning of … Continue reading →

This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Pope Paul VI’s Predictions In Humanae Vitae, published in 1968, Pope Paul IV said that four things would happen if contraception became widely available. There would be … Continue reading →