In July, 1968, Father John Carrigan was at the desk in his parish church in Pulaski Tennessee when he learned of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter, "Humanae Vitae," reaffirming the prohibition of artificial birth control. Father Carrigan feared that his days as a canonical Catholic priest were numbered. He saw the proclamation of the pope as a rejection of the majority report of the Birth Control Commission that was made up of married lay people as well as clerical experts. He saw it as a a gauntlet thrown down by the hierarchy, rejecting the inclusion of lay voices in decision-making in the...
In July, 1968, Father John Carrigan was at the desk in his parish church in Pulaski Tennessee when he learned of Pope Paul VI's encyclical letter, "Hu...
