Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jhpb@granjon.garage.att.com Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: RCC on contraception Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 07:39:17 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Labs (Liberty Corner) Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Brad Staff wrote: I am interested in understanding the Roman Catholic Church's positions on contraception. I assume the RCC has published official documents outlining these positions. Does anyone know the titles of these documents, and where one might buy/borrow them? Two of the primary ones are the following encyclical letters: Casti Connubii, on Christian marriage, Pius XI, 1930 Humanae Vitae, on the regulation of birth, Paul VI, 1968 Humanae Vitae is in the 2nd volume of Fr. Austin Flannery's Vatican II collection, available in just about every Catholic bookstore I've been into. Any Catholic university library will probably have a copy of both encyclicals. You can also probably get them from the Daughters of St. Paul (617-522-8911, Boston, Mass., according to one encyclical I have), who sell many encyclicals, and if all else fails, I have copies of both. Joe Buehler