By Paul Murano, Church Militant - (54 years ago) On July 25, 1968, a moral earthquake shook the world. Several years after the invention of the birth control pill, while Catholic women joined others in consuming the new forbidden fruit, Pope St. Paul VI finally promulgated Humanae Vitae... With the help of theologians like the future Pope St. John Paul II, Paul VI reiterated the Church's constant teaching against unnatural birth prevention...