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The Teaching of the Prophetic Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Part IX)

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / August 25, 2021 /

…The Third Prophecy Part VI: The Fourth Prophecy Part VII: Modernity’s Challenges to Humanae Vitae Part VIII: The Church’s Right to Teach on Birth Control Later articles in this series:…

Ten Threats to Marriage

By HLI Staff / September 3, 2021 /

…divorcing one’s spouse easier. Celebrities who divorce and remarry multiple times serve as poor role models. The birth control pill also contributes to marital infidelity. Divorce rates, which climbed steadily…

America’s Birthrate Crisis: The Contraceptive Roots of the Population Bust

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / July 20, 2026 /

…he travelled to 91 countries over more than forty years, was that the collapse begins with contraception – what he called “the chief source of baby-killing.” As he said: “Once…

Why Don’t Pro-Life Groups Merge?

By Brian Clowes, PhD / June 8, 2017 /

…of Abortifacients and Contraception The second fundamental conflict involves abortifacients and contraception. All pro‑life groups oppose surgical abortion and the RU‑486 abortion pill. However, some do not take a position…

Contraception Won’t Stop Abortion (because it’s causing it)

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / March 23, 2023 /

All too often, pro-lifers focus all their energy on getting rid of abortion. But as long as contraception is used and accepted, abortion won’t go away. Birth control leads directly…

Contraception and IVF Are the Same Sin

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / November 24, 2023 /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRpIRd97vo Why are contraception and in vitro fertilization the same sin? Isn’t contraception anti-baby? And IVF is pro-baby? In today’s podcast episode, Fr. Boquet unpacks the relationship between contraception and…

Living God’s Unselfish Love

By Susan Ciancio / February 20, 2020 /

…hear it out of the mouths of politicians, and we see it on social media and television ads that tout the “freedom” you can have by using hormonal birth control…

The Blessings of ‘Ordinary’ Children

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / July 15, 2019 /

…than many of the other problems that we usually associate with the crisis in marriage and the family: “contraception and abortion; divorce rates, out-of-wedlock births, people living together rather than…

Fix Women’s Health with Food, Not the Pill

By Living a Culture of Life Podcast / February 13, 2025 /

…as a Band-Aid fix. But women deserve better. Hormonal contraception doesn’t fix the underlying reproductive issue. And it often causes many other health problems too. So, if birth control isn’t…

Protestant Parish Drops Contraception Thanks to HLI Mission in Tanzania

By HLI Staff / December 7, 2021 /

Bishop Mwalyego needs help to spread this Church teaching to parishes in six countries. “Before today I used contraception. I didn’t know what it was doing to my marriage and…