Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Catholic Church

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Correspondence, minutes of meetings of the board of directors, publicity material and financial statements, reports of the editor and publisher, and printed material; concerning the early years of the National Catholic Reporter and its controversial coverage of the Vietnam war, civil disobedience, the Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control, priestly celibacy, and the hierarchy of the church.

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Papers relating to the five sessions of the Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control and to the three meetings of the planning groups: consisting of material from meetings, correspondence, theological papers, demographic papers, sociological papers, economic papers, medical papers, and psychological papers.

Scope and Content Questionnaires on the rhythm method of birth control, and on responsible parenthood and love in marriage, with responses from those who answered them; reports, notes taken at meetings, correspondence and background papers, 1964-1967; articles on birth control, dating from the 1960s through the 1980s; a copy of the book Turning Pointby Robert McClory regarding the Commission; book reviews and Crowley correspondence concerning Turning...