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In its profound teachings on marriage, the Second Vatican Council in 1965 stated precisely what difficulties husband and wife can face in relating their mutual love and the parenthood which naturally arises from expressions of that love. The Council reiterated the ancient and once universal Christian teaching that the morality of married intimacy depends on preserving the full meaning of mutual giving and human procreation in a context of true love. It said that some questions about ways of regulating procreation were being studied by a commission, so that the Pope could give his judgment on how God's law applies to those ways. Humanae Vitae is Pope Paul VI's judgment, issued in 1968, applying the Council's teaching to those new questions, and later solemnly reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II and the Synod of Bishops. It is a momentous restatement of how love must, and must not, be expressed if it is to be marital love, true to the nature of human persons and of real marriage as a high and most significant calling. In this 40th anniversary year of the encyclical, the CTS commissioned a new translation from the Latin text, with notes on some earlier translations, by John Finnis, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy in the University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and formerly of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and of the Holy See's International Theological Commission. (Please note this new edition replaces our previous edition of Humanae Vitae, code DO411, ISBN 9781860820618)… (more)
It's not a book, it's a short pamphlet. Whether you agree with it or not, you might want to read it before you take issue with the position it takes. So you really know the position it takes. ( )
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Il gravissimo dovere di trasmettere la vita umana, per il quale gli sposi sono liberi e responsabili collaboratori di Dio creatore, è sempre stato per essi fonte di grandi gioie, seppur talvolta accompagnate da non poche difficoltà e angustie.
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Su questa opera noi invochiamo, come su voi tutti, ed in modo speciale sugli sposi, l'abbondanza delle grazie di Dio di santità e di misericordia, in pegno delle quali vi diamo la nostra benedizione apostolica.
In its profound teachings on marriage, the Second Vatican Council in 1965 stated precisely what difficulties husband and wife can face in relating their mutual love and the parenthood which naturally arises from expressions of that love. The Council reiterated the ancient and once universal Christian teaching that the morality of married intimacy depends on preserving the full meaning of mutual giving and human procreation in a context of true love. It said that some questions about ways of regulating procreation were being studied by a commission, so that the Pope could give his judgment on how God's law applies to those ways. Humanae Vitae is Pope Paul VI's judgment, issued in 1968, applying the Council's teaching to those new questions, and later solemnly reaffirmed by Pope John Paul II and the Synod of Bishops. It is a momentous restatement of how love must, and must not, be expressed if it is to be marital love, true to the nature of human persons and of real marriage as a high and most significant calling. In this 40th anniversary year of the encyclical, the CTS commissioned a new translation from the Latin text, with notes on some earlier translations, by John Finnis, Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy in the University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and formerly of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and of the Holy See's International Theological Commission. (Please note this new edition replaces our previous edition of Humanae Vitae, code DO411, ISBN 9781860820618)
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A revised and improved translation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter, Humanae vitae. Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) made headlines worldwide. Many talked about the encyclical when it was issued in 1968, but few actually read it. Why is it perhaps the most controversial document in modern Church history? Read it and find the answer to this question and discover the document's enduring wisdom.