Catholics and Contraception: An American History
- ISBN-10
- 0801440033
- ISBN-13
- 9780801440038
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 335
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Description
Tentler draws on evidence from pastoral literature, sermons, lay writings, private correspondence, and interviews with fifty-six priests ordained between 1938 and 1968, concluding, "the recent history of American Catholicism ... can only be understood by taking birth control into account.""--Jacket.
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