Readers respond to the prospect of Shakespeare’s Catholicism, the dumbing down of Catholics in church history, the truth about old age, and more

Humanae vitae was a regressive moment in Catholic history and the history of human sexuality

A historian explains how silence on contraception drove a regrettable wedge between the clergy and laity on sexual morality

Sectarianism of “party men” is what threatens the Church—the Catholic Church—today

Those who contradict this encyclical must do it out of love for the whole Church, out of love for those whose faith is endangered

‘Commonweal’ has published more than its fair share of such commentary on ‘Humanae Vitae’, most of it questioning the encyclical’s reasoning