{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"G.E.M. Anscombe - Contraception and Chastity","description":"&quot;For we don't invent marriage... any more than we invent human language. It is part of the creation of humanity and if we're lucky we find it available to us and can enter into it. If we are very unlucky, we may live in a society that has wrecked or deformed this human thing.&quot; Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century British philosopher, known for her influential work in ethics and her deep commitment to Catholic doctrine. In her essay 'Contraception and Chastity'\u2014one of the earliest defenses of Pope Paul VI's encyclical, Humanae Vitae\u2014Anscombe expertly explains the evil of contraception and contrasts its use with that of methods of natural family planning.&amp;nbsp; Read by Karina Majewski Links Contraception and Chastity&amp;nbsp;full text:&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/global.uwi.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/bnccde\/PH19B\/conchastity.html SUBSCRIBE to Catholic Culture Audiobooks&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/catholic-culture-audiobooks\/id1482214268 SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter&amp;nbsp;http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletter DONATE at&amp;nbsp;http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio&amp;nbsp; Theme music: &quot;2 Part Invention&quot;, composed by Mark Christopher Brandt, performed by Thomas Mirus. \u00a9\ufe0f2019 Heart of the Lion Publishing Co.\/BMI. All rights reserved. ","author_name":"Catholic Culture Audiobooks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/audiobooks","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33710077\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/33710077"}