(RNS) — The Catholic Church is often said to think in terms of centuries, not years or even decades. But here in the United States, always a country on a hurry-up schedule, St. John Paul II’s ...

Forty years is not a long time in Church history. Indeed, we are still living in the moment of Humanae Vitae (issued on July 25, 1968), and of the challenge it presents to the world. Humanae Vitae ...