Mater sí, Magistra sí!

national review’s discovery of the population explosion confirms a) that God’s arrangements for peopling the planet have indeed gone awry, and if disaster is to be averted we had better grab the wheel quick; b) the means we employ are to be evaluated according to their efficiency; but c) let’s face it—except maybe for abortion, voluntary methods haven’t made a dent; so . . . and) Old Mother Hen can at last be counted on to get out of the way—though she may flap her wings a bit (obstructionists really “must have their freedom guaranteed”) when the State moves as it is “bound” to, to enforce the imperatives of Survival. Oh, my. As to most of this, I assume the staff freedom philosophers will soon return from their vacations, and will have something to say, hopefully at the level of prudence, about an approach to the cosmos that points ineluctably to supervision of human generation by a State doctrinally forbidden to meddle with the postal service.

My main concern, however, is with Old Mother Hen, and with Garry Wills’ assurances that she will not find her stubborn ways as difficult to mend as some of us had thought. The key problem: How to legitimize contraceptives without compromising the integrity of the Catholic Church’s teaching authority.

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national review’s discovery of the population explosion confirms a) that God’s arrangements for peopling the planet have indeed gone awry, and if disaster is to be averted we had better grab the wheel quick; b) the means we employ are to be evaluated according to their efficiency; but c) let’s face it—except maybe for abortion, voluntary methods haven’t made a dent; so . . . and) Old Mother Hen can at last be counted on to get out of the way—though she may flap her wings a bit (obstructionists really “must have their freedom guaranteed”) when the State moves as it is “bound” to, to enforce the imperatives of Survival. Oh, my. As to most of this, I assume the staff freedom philosophers will soon return from their vacations, and will have something to say, hopefully at the level of prudence, about an approach to the cosmos that points ineluctably to supervision of human generation by a State doctrinally forbidden to meddle with the postal service.

My main concern, however, is with Old Mother Hen, and with Garry Wills’ assurances that she will not find her stubborn ways as difficult to mend as some of us had thought. The key problem: How to legitimize contraceptives without compromising the integrity of the Catholic Church’s teaching authority.