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• Religion, churches, secularism: Reproductive rights

  The Catholic contraception ban: a historic mistake

  25 July 2018, by The Guardian

  It is 50 years since Pope Paul VI restated the Catholic church’s ban on artificial contraception. He destroyed the authority of his office – and the lives of millions of women
  Thursday marks the 50^th anniversary of one of the historic mistakes of the Catholic church: the decision by Pope Paul (…)

• Religion, churches, secularism: Reproductive rights

  On Condoms, Hope From the Pope

  23 November 2010, by POLLITT Katha

  Is the pope Catholic? The whole world broke out the champagne the weekend before Thanksgiving when the news came that Pope Benedict XVI had approved the use of condoms in certain circumstances to prevent the transmission of HIV. In Light of the World, a new collection of interviews with the (…)