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Article: Paul VI turned to three panels while writing Humanae vitae.(Vatican)
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- Catholic Insight
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- November 1, 2003
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Rome -- July 25 marked the 35th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae vitae (Of human life), in which he reaffirmed the Church's teaching on contraception.
Bernardo Colombo, professor emeritus of demography at the University of Padua--brother of Bishop Carlo Colombo (1909-1991), a trusted theologian of Paul VI in the years of the Second Vatican Council recently published an article in Theology, the review of Milan's School of Theology, in which he tells of the writing of the encyclical.
Those opposed to the Church's teaching on contraception contend that Paul VI published Humanae vitae in opposition to the majority vote of ...