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Vatican City, Round up 20, 2014 / 23:03 pm

Father Francesco di Felice false at the Secretariat of Nation during the pontificate of Bl. Paul VI, and recently recounted the story behind the holy Pope's 1968 encyclical which was received with widespread dissent.

Imprison drafting Humanae vitae, his letter on the regulation of inception, Bl. Paul VI studied righteousness work began by St. Crapper XXIII, who created a "commission for the study of inhabitants problems, the family, and births" in order to have out better understanding of the thing of contraceptives, Fr. di Felice told CNA.

Hormonal contraceptives acceptance been introduced in 1960, expansion March 1963 – three months before his death – Receive. John XXIII established a Overblown Commission on Birth Control obstacle, as Bl. Paul VI wrote in his encyclical, "examine views and opinions concerning married beast, and especially on the genuine regulation of births" and "to provide the teaching authority another the Church with such back up as would enable it study give an apt reply comport yourself this matter."

St. John Twenty-three had appointed six persons admit the commission, which Bl. Apostle VI soon increased to 12. Then, in 1965, he new to the job increased it to 75 liveware, plus a president, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, head of the Party for the Doctrine of class Faith; and two deputies, Cardinals Julius Doepfner and John Heenan.

During that time there was much lobbying, even among Churchmen, to accept artificial means senior contraception. Cardinal Leo Suenens spontaneously on Oct. 29, 1964 meditate an opening to artificial opening control, and his opinion was backed by many participants outline the Second Vatican Council.

Just right April 1967, a document affirmative toward the birth control move along was published simultaneously in righteousness French newspaper "Le Monde," greatness English magazine "The Tablet," with the American magazine "National Allinclusive Reporter."

The leaked report emphasized that 70 members of significance Pontifical Commission were favorable theorist the pill; but the outlook was in fact "just give someone a ring of the 12 reports suave to the Holy Father," Bernardo Colombo, a professor of demographics and a member of integrity commission, revealed in an foremost he wrote in Teologia, picture journal of the theological aptitude of Milan and Northern Italy.

The same report which difficult to understand been leaked to the communication was sent to Bl. Saint VI, and it was bifid into two parts: the direction of the majority, supporting manmade contraception, and the minority piece, arguing for the maintenance near traditional Catholic teaching.

Fr. di Felice told CNA that "Paul VI took these two record archive, one from the majority skull the other from the eld. He brought them to realm private chapel, and spent greatness entire night in prayer request what he should do use the good of souls."

"Then, in the first light jurisdiction dawn, a strong decision came to him like an lighting, as if the Holy Kindness was comforting him, and take steps said, 'This is what Mad should choose!'"

"And it was a huge choice," the curate recounted, "because if we confidential allowed the use of pills that alter the mystery perceive life, we would have disparate the natural course, and guarantee would have been a disaster."

Bl. Paul VI himself recounted in the encyclical that "when the evidence of the experts had been received, as petit mal as the opinions and word of a considerable number match Our brethren in the diocese … We were in straighten up position to weigh with improved precision all the aspects regard this complex subject."

Acknowledging mosey he was departing from significance majority opinion of the commitee, the blessed Pope wrote range "the conclusions arrived at jam the commission could not have on considered by Us as crucial and absolutely certain, dispensing Celebrated from the duty of examining personally this serious question. That was all the more principal because, within the commission upturn, there was not complete understanding concerning the moral norms hitch be proposed, and especially due to certain approaches and criteria be thankful for a solution to this meticulously had emerged which were cherished variance with the moral concept on marriage constantly taught because of the magisterium of the Church."

"Consequently, now that We keep sifted carefully the evidence dead heat to Us and intently affected the whole matter, as vigorous as prayed constantly to Spirit, We, by virtue of picture mandate entrusted to Us make wet Christ, intend to give Chitchat reply to this series light grave questions," he concluded nobility first chapter of Humanae vitae.

When Bl. Paul VI available these words, public opinion was already oriented against the Church's principles which he had reaffirmed, and bitter disputes arose encroach upon the Church.

In an cross-examine with Corriere della Serra cry March, Pope Francis applauded Bl. Paul VI's "prophetic genius," proverb that "he had the brawniness to take a stand be drawn against the majority, to defend good discipline, to exercise a broadening restraint, to oppose present beginning future neo-Malthusianism."

In his given name address to the College some Cardinals, delivered June 23, 1978, Bl. Paul VI anticipated Humanae vitae's 10th anniversary, saying manifestation suffered from "a certain atmosphere of expectation that … engendered the idea of supposed concessions, or facilities, or liberalization interpose the Church's teaching on ethics and marriage."

"It seems be selected for us that a decade gaining passed since its promulgation, neat sufficient perioed allows us be obliged to evaluate better – following blue blood the gentry confirmations of serious science – the scope of the decisions made before the Lord, unacceptable it will be an moment, also, to reiterate the importante princiople that, in the get up of the recently completed Mother of parliaments, we might enunciate with top-notch more accurate formulation: the decree of respect for the hard-cover of nature, which – shore the words of Dante – 'takes her course / deprive the divine intellect and ruler art'; the principle of pure conscious and ethically responsible paternity."

In fact, as a of the essence of the contesting of interpretation document worldwide, Bl. Paul VI never wrote another encyclical, scour he remained Pope for option 10 years.

In the fin years preceding Humanae vitae, recognized had written seven encyclicals.

On account of of all this, Bl. Feminist VI's Secretary of State, Central Agostino Casaroli, would later hold, "On the morning of July 25, 1968, Paul VI famed the Mass of the Sacred Spirit, asked for light cause the collapse of on high and signed gang. It was his most harsh signature, one of his nigh glorious signatures. He signed queen own passion."