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Can I get a vasectomy? Here’s what the Catholic Church teaches

August 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

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CNA Staff, Aug 23, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
The news broke early this week that Planned Parenthood was offering free abortions and vasectomies outside the 2024 Democratic National Convention in do… […]

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Why do so many Catholics use contraception? Experts weigh in

May 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 19

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CNA Staff, May 14, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Recent data from the federally administered National Survey of Family Growth shows large majorities of Catholics report using at least one form of artificial contrace… […]

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Bishop Barron, U.S. bishops condemn FDA’s approval of first OTC birth control pill

July 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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Washington D.C., Jul 14, 2023 / 09:55 am (CNA).
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, unequivocally condemned the FDA’s approval of the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive “Opill” in a sh… […]

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FDA approves first nonprescription oral contraceptive ‘Opill’ 

July 13, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced the approval of the first nonprescription oral contraceptive, called “Opill.” The drug’s a… […]

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Catholic bishops to FDA: Don’t make ‘minipill’ contraceptive over-the-counter

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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Denver, Colo., May 16, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).
Federal regulators with the Food and Drug Administration should reject proposed over-the-counter use of the progestin-only “minipill” contraceptive, the U.S. bishops have… […]

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What to know about contraceptives, breast cancer risk, and ‘informed choice’

March 23, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

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Denver Newsroom, Mar 23, 2023 / 13:48 pm (CNA).
Some forms of contraceptive use have “a significant increase in risk of breast cancer,” a new study says, and one fertility specialist believes that women deserve … […]

The Dispatch

A history of contraception in the United States

December 26, 2022 John B. Buescher 3

Catholic apologetics against contraception and abortion sometimes appear historically naive, as if these issues suddenly fell out of the sky in 1930 with Resolution 15 of the Anglican Lambeth Conference on contraception, or during The […]

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Church and contraception: Experts expose errors in Pontifical Academy for Life book

September 27, 2022 Catholic News Agency 6

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Denver Newsroom, Sep 27, 2022 / 10:07 am (CNA).
Nine international experts have pointed out in an open letter the serious errors contained in a book published a few weeks ago by the Pontific… […]

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Theologian at Academy for Life claims one may dissent from Church teaching on contraception

August 22, 2022 Catholic News Agency 17

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Rome Newsroom, Aug 22, 2022 / 11:25 am (CNA).
The Pontifical Academy for Life has published an interview with a theologian who says Catholic teaching on contraception is open for “theological discussion, within the… […]

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Reacting to pontifical academy, theologian says teaching of Humanae vitae can’t change

August 9, 2022 Catholic News Agency 25

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Denver, Colo., Aug 8, 2022 / 19:01 pm (CNA).
The teaching of Humanae vitae on contraception is an instance of the ordinary and universal magisterium, and as such is irreformable, a moral theologian has said in respon… […]

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