By Robert Morrison, Remnant Columnist, The Remnant, Aug. 29, 2023
“There is only one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one can be saved.” (Innocent III and the Fourth Ecumenical Council of the Lateran, 1215)
In his 1968 book about the aftermath of Vatican II, Is it the Same Church?, Frank Sheed described the way in which Catholic views on contraception changed in the 1960s:
“Up to, say, 1960 it was assumed by everyone, inside the Church and outside, that the Church taught definitively and unchangeably that artificial contraception was a grave sin. Catholics who used it knew that in the eyes of the Church they were sinning and that they must not receive the Blessed Eucharist until they repented of the use and abandoned it. Now there are voices all about us raised in question, not only of the prohibition’s rightness, but of whether the Church can actually be said to have taught it.” (p. 51) …