South Bend, Ind., Mar 20, 2018 / 15:23 pm
Author Mary Eberstadt told students at the University of Notre Dame Tuesday that a 50-year-old document on contraception is critical to understanding the state of contemporary culture.
Eberstadt, a senior researcher at the Faith and Reason Institute, spoke at Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture, explaining that the prophetic message of Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae has become a reality.
"Contraceptive technology, as Paul VI foresaw, opens a Pandora's box of mischief in which the stronger have the advantage," Eberstadt told Notre Dame students March 20.
"For some while now, it's been apparent that the sexual revolution that began in the 1960s bids fair to become one of the most formative disruptions in human history," Eberstadt argued. "It's having massive repercussions across the world – microcosmic, macrocosmic, moral, religious, political, and otherwise."