"The Pope is not the Church...and American Catholics are not going to stop practicing birth control or having abortions. Increasingly, what he says does not affect the way Catholics live their lives."

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Christianity and womenBirth controlChristianity and sexuality
Original Language: English

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Author Mary Gordon, Newsday, October 5, 1995.; as qtd. in Catholics for a Choice (1998). "A Matter of Conscience: Catholics on Contraception" (PDF). Catholics for a Choice. Archived from the original] (PDF) on (2006-10-11). Retrieved 2006-10-01, p.6