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Fri 07 Jul 2008'Humanae Vitae' birth control ban set off a wave of dissent
Pope Paul VI's encyclical 40 years ago transformed Catholic attitudes to authority, writes Patsy McGarry
FORTY YEARS ago today there occurred an event that was to mark a watershed in the history of Irish Catholicism, if not Irish society generally. And it was also to mark a shift in the attitude of many Catholics worldwide to papal authority.
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