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Why Paul VI is the saint we need right now

Pope Paul VI led the church with a steady hand as it experienced enormous change.

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Fifty years ago this past July, Pope Paul VI issued his landmark encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), which reaffirmed the church’s teaching against the use of artificial contraception. The encyclical shocked Catholics who had been expecting a change in the church’s position.

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