Pro-Life and Social Justice: ‘Humanae Vitae’ Helps Catholics Breathe Out of Both Lungs

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Pro-lifers hold signs on Aug. 22, 2015, in front of Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Clinic on Bleecker Street in New York City.

COMMENTARY: Paul VI’s prophetic encyclical — like the moral teachings of the Church more broadly — is both a pro-life and traditional encyclical and a progressive social encyclical.