The professor who chaired a Vatican study group on Humanae Vitae stressed that Blessed Paul VI's encyclical “needs no updating.”
Professor Gilfredo Marengo, of the Pontifical Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, spoke with CNA at the presentation of his latest book, Chiesa Senza Storia, Storia Senza Chiesa (Church Without History, History Without the Church), which explores the implications and consequences of Gaudium et Spes, the Second Vatican Council's pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world.
Marengo told CNA that, according to his studies, “one of the biggest knots in drafting Humanae Vitae was really that of going beyond the polarization between doctrine and pastoral issues.”
