{"id":306350,"date":"2018-07-26T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/humanae-vitae-50-years-on\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:37:42","slug":"humanae-vitae-50-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/humanae-vitae-50-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanae vitae, 50 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cFifty years after being published, Paul VI\u2019s encyclical<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/paul-vi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Humanae vitae<\/a> <strong>appears entirely different to modern eyes. In 1968 it was a brave document \u2013 and as a result controversial\u2013 that went against the climate of the time<\/strong>. This was the era of the sexual revolution, which needed certainty of contraception and the possibility of abortion in order to happen. It was also a time when economists spoke of a \u2018human bomb\u2019 \u2013 the danger of overpopulation that threatened rich countries, which could have decreased their prosperity.\u201d So writes <strong>Lucetta Scaraffia<\/strong> in Avvenire, although she concludes that today the world has changed and that the encyclical should be read again with a different perspective: as a \u201cprophetic event.\u201d  <strong>It was published on July 25, 1968, in the sixth year of Paul VI\u2019s pontificate, and caused a number of conflicting responses.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFifty years after being published, Paul VI\u2019s encyclical Humanae vitae appears entirely different to modern eyes. In 1968 it was a brave document \u2013 and as a result controversial\u2013 that went against the climate of the time. This was the era of the sexual revolution, which needed certainty of contraception and the possibility of abortion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}