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Home > Waco Breaking News > Archives > 2008 > July > 25 > Entry

Catholic groups urge pope to lift birth control ban

By Nathan Wade -- pending replacement | Friday, July 25, 2008, 11:02 AM

More than 50 dissident Catholic groups from around the world have asked Pope Benedict XVI to lift the church’s 40-year ban on birth control.

In a half-page ad in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the groups said Friday that the Church’s ban on artificial birth control has had “catastrophic effects,” particularly in the fight against AIDS.

The ad comes on the 40th anniversary of the 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”) — the document issued by Pope Paul VI that prohibits Catholics from using artificial contraception.

Vatican officials responded that the church is active in the fight against AIDS.

For more on the ad and the Vatican response, click here.

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