(Program 11451)
Father Sheenan Boquet

The encyclical, Humanae Vitae, shocked the world in 1968 when it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI, but for the wrong reasons. How dare the Catholic Church tell me how to conduct my personal life? What right does the Pope have to talk about the intimate relations of a man a woman? He isn’t married, what could he know about such things? – were just some of the comments that peppered conversations and news articles.