A National Insitutes of Health (NIH) study has conclusively proved the link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer in women. Post menopausal women who take hormones for more than five years to relieve symptoms such as hot flashes have twice the risk of developing breast cancer as women who do not take estrogen and [...]

Cardinal James Francis Stafford has written a thoughtful – and painful – reflection of the turmoil that surrounded the promulgation of Humanae Vitae and the dissent that followed.

“It was the year of the bad war, of complex innocence that sanctified the shedding of blood. English historian Paul Johnson dubs 1968 as the year of ‘America’s Suicide Attempt.’”

There are a number of conferences coming up on Humanae Vitae, the encyclical on artificial contraception written by Pope Paul VI. Forty years have passed since Humanae Vitae was issued on July 25, 1968 and many of the predictions that it made have proven true. Anyone interested in learning more about this prophetic encyclical and [...]