July 25 1968 was a day that etched ...

July 25 1968 was a day that etched itself into my memory. That day, pontiff Paul VI issued his prophetic document Humanae vitae (Of human life). I was in toward the south Bend, Indiana, on that bright mild day. I can clearly view myself returning to the campus of Notre Dame University, where I was studying that summer As a associate priest and I walked onward to the campus, it looked that the air was crackling with emotional electricity. We were early told the reason why. The pontiff had issued his long-awaited encyclical Of human life, and he had not approved the