There have been an impressive number of good articles written about Humanae Vitae. I have collected the best of them, divided into orthodox and heterodox categories, here for your reading pleasure. If I have missed any that you feel should be included, please comment with a link to the article and I will update. Orthodox: [...]

July 25, 2008 was the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life). I first learned about Humanae Vitae in college. Pope John Paul II had just issued his first encyclical, Redemptoris Hominis (The Redeemer of Man) and it was becoming ever more clear what kind of Pope he would be.

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.’”