What I find both exciting and encouraging at present is that the discipline of social science, usually understood to be the preserve of progressive secular scholars, in following the data has corroborated the evils Pope Paul had considered in Humanae Vitae. Recent research findings by scholars in the social sciences confirm contraception as the culprit behind the considerable rise in divorce and illegitimacy in the United States, both which in turn have spawned other societal ills such as increased rates of criminal behavior and high school dropout rates. No surprise, it turns out that the poor are especially susceptible to the harms caused by the American contraceptive culture. These findings are the studied work of secular scholars, most regarded as slightly left of center on the sociopolitical spectrum. To give but a few examples: Robert Michael of the University of Chicago has written that sudden widespread use of artificial contraception and the availability of abortion pro...

Predictably, many parishoners are complaining about the Revised Roman Missal here ... The Holy Father Pope Pius XI sheds light here: "However, in these studies concerning ancient rites the due preparation of knowledge must not be overlooked, which should have as its companion piety and docile and humble obedience. And if these be lacking, any investigation whatever about ancient liturgies of the Mass will turn out to be irreverent and fruitless: for when the supreme authority of the Apostolic See in liturgical matters, which deservedly rejects puffed-up learning and, with the Apostle, “speaks wisdom among the perfect” (1 Cor 8:1; 2:6), has been spurned, whether through ignorance or a proud and conceited spirit, [emphasis mine] the danger immediately threatens that the error known as modernism will be introduced into liturgical matters,".