Volume 6, Number 12 · July 7, 1966
Contraception and the Church
By Magdalen Goffin
Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by Catholic Theologists and Canonists
by John T. Noonan Jr.
Harvard (Belknap Press), 390 pp., $7.95
The Pill
edited by Leo Pyle
Helicon Press, 225 pp., $1.65 (paper)
The Priest: Celibate or Married
by Pierre Hermand
Helicon Press, 144 pp., $3.75
Catholics, Marriage and Contraception
by John Marshall M.D.
Helicon Press, 224 pp., $4.50
Today humanity is threatened from without by overpopulation and the possibility of thermonuclear destruction. It is threatened from within by the near collapse of any coherent religious system and the failure to regulate conduct in the light of agreed principles. Millions of people do not believe God exists. More millions reject Christianity as irrelevant to the human situation, as a religion whose residual traces are no more worth following than the tracks of a rabbit in the undergrowth. A large number, however, are in the position so aptly described by Anthony Padovana in his book, The Estranged God:
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