On Human Life (Humanae Vitae) – with commentary

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By Pope Paul VI; commentary by Mary Eberstadt, James Hitchcock and Jennifer Fulwiler

This is Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, often called the most controversial document in modern Church history. The Ignatius edition pairs the text of the encyclical with commentary by three Catholic writers, Mary Eberstadt, James Hitchcock and Jennifer Fulwiler. The encyclical explains the Church’s rejection of contraception through the unitive and procreative meanings of sexuality, links later problems such as infidelity and artificial reproduction to widespread contraception, and notes its influence on St. John Paul II’s theology of the body.

Publisher: Ignatius Press. ISBN 9781621640011. Paperback, 111 pages.