Humanae Vitae Forty-Seven Years Later: Pope Paul VI's Positive Vision is Becoming True

In Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI makes positive as well as negative prophecies. He elaborates the good that comes from following Church teaching on contraception. While acknowledging that spouses may face difficulties acquiring the self-discipline needed to practice periodic abstinence, he nonetheless affirms such self-discipline is possible, with the help of sacramental graces. In paragraph 21, he