Pope Francis, Say Yes to the Pill
At the National Review, Conrad Black urges newly inaugurated Pope Francis to change the Roman Catholic Church’s outdated attitude towards contraception. Conrad argues, “The Church’s official position on contraception enables its enemies to portray it as an archaic society for the propagation of chaste humbug by an esoteric fraternity of superannuated clergymen in antiquarian costumes.” He continues, “Until it engages in just a couple of needful steps of modernization, the Roman Catholic Church will be … denying itself the assumption of its rightful status as a contemporary, as well as timeless, moral force.”