After 50 Years, a Pope’s Birth-Control Message Still Divides Catholics By Jim May 10 2018 Fifty years ago this July, Pope Paul VI promulgated his encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” which reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s traditional prohibition of artificial birth control and set off one of the most divisive debates in modern church history. Catholics have overwhelmingly rejected the document’s teaching.Tags: Humanae VitaeBirth ControlRoman Catholicism 792 reads