{"id":1531,"date":"2018-07-24T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:58:19","slug":"tomorrow-fiftieth-anniversary-of-humanae-vitae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow &#8211; fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Paul&#39;s Encyclical on artificial birth control and natural family planning. Here&#39;s an article from the Jesuit magazine America which is quite interesting, written by a nun. Will post another about a Polish woman physician on the subject tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad38368d5200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Birth control pill\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad38368d5200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad38368d5200d-120wi\" style=\"width: 120px;\" title=\"Birth control pill\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2018\/07\/20\/how-humanae-vitae-helped-one-nun-find-her-feminist-voice?utm_source=Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=b939bfc8c3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_20_07_10&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0fe8ed70be-b939bfc8c3-58468933\">How \u201cHumanae Vitae\u201d helped one nun find her feminist voice<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a young woman I thoroughly rejected most church teachings and was planning on leaving the Catholic Church. I thought the church was a draconian institution that oppressed women, wanted us barefoot and pregnant, and told us to sit down and shut up. I believed that secular culture was what gave women dignity and rights. But, ever so slowly, I gave the Catholic Church a second chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Paul&#39;s Encyclical on artificial birth control and natural family planning. Here&#39;s an article from the Jesuit magazine America which is quite interesting, written by a nun. Will post another about a Polish woman physician on the subject tomorrow. How \u201cHumanae Vitae\u201d helped one nun find her feminist voice As a young woman I thoroughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}