San Bernardino, Calif., Mar 27, 2008 / 16:07 pm
The California Catholic Daily reports that the Diocese of San Bernardino and the Diocese of Oakland will host two separate conferences this year marking the fortieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae. They will examine the encyclical of Pope Paul VI that discussed contraception and marital love.
The San Bernardino conference, sponsored by the California Association of Natural Family Planning, will take place April 11-12. It will discuss both Humanae Vitae and the U.S. bishops’ 2006 document “Married Love and the Gift of Life.”
Additionally, the conference will address the nature of Natural Family Planning and how it differs from contraception, the impact of contraception on society and married couples, what saying “yes” to children at the altar means, and whether couples have to leave their family size “entirely to chance.”
The conference’s speakers will include Dr. Janet Smith, who is a consulter to the Pontifical Council on the Family and an ethics professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.