Nevertheless, the Catholic Church held fast to its opposition ... the Pill quickly became the most popular method of birth control among American women —regardless of religion.

It was then that the American Council of Christian Churches was formed of denominations of sound evangelical faith not in the Federal Council. By grace and hard work we broke the council’s ...

In the American Catholic Laity Surveys that began in 1987, U.S. Catholics have, for quite some time now, preferred to decide for themselves on many questions of morality, over giving church leaders ...