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Italy was a crucial battleground for the teaching of the Catholic church on sexual morality in the late 1960s, and Humanae Vitae had a key role in the development of a new kind of relationship between the Vatican, the Catholic Church in Italy, and Italian public opinion, both Catholic and secular. The chapter analyses a spectrum of reactions, from opinion pieces and letters in secular newspapers, theological explorations in Catholic journals, and published critiques of the encyclical by the Catholic faithful. The encyclical constituted a pivotal moment in perceptions of the secularization of Italy, and this event was particularly momentous in a country with a history so intimately tied to the Catholic Church and the Vatican.
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Vassalle, F., Faggioli, M. (2018). A Kind of Reformation in Miniature: The Paradoxical Impact of Humanae Vitae in Italy. In: Harris, A. (eds) The Schism of ’68 . Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70811-9_9
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