Bans Quote by Rosemary Radford Ruether

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

— A.C. Grayling

Don't jump down - folks, contraception in the Catholic Church is a thing.

— Rush Limbaugh

“It was no surprise when, in 1950, Pius became the first pope to invoke 'papal infallibility' – the doctrine whereby certain papal declarations, delivered…

— Cyrus Shahrad

“doctrines like papal infallibility and the Catholic teaching on marriage and social morality are believed with a conviction that scandalizes those who do not…

— John A. Hardon

“In 1968, Pope Paul VI responded instead with an encylical Humanae Vitae. The encyclical reaffirmed the Church's rejectionist stance: Contraceptives were evil and against…

— Jack Holland

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the…

— John Stuart Mill

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics,…

— Gloria Steinem

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The Church, though, has always held up a mirror in which society can see reflected some of its uglier aspects, and it does not…

— Michael Coren

The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And this shift…

— George H. Smith

“In the summer of 2007, I was sitting in a studio in Dublin, debating with a lay spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church who…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the Roman Catholic Nation of Columbia, the accepted form of contraception is not a condom, but a spotlight and rifle.”

— Peter B. Lockhart