The author asks if Humanae Vitae is the teaching of the Church....currently it does not appear to be "received wisdom" of the Church as less than 2-3% of western Catholics actually use NFP and somewhere around 10-15% of Catholics in undeveloped countries may actually support it. (Univision worldwide poll)

AND that brings us to a discussion of poverty in undeveloped countries and access to contraceptives....AND what is actually the right thing to do for these folks with no running water, sewage on the ground, no food, medical care, education, employment et al...today's Sundays  newspapers identified the huge percentage of such folks in sub Saharan Africa....and we have been discussing it for years on NCR....

I do not find the authors defense of the Knights of Columbus to be all that persuasive...think he Knights should be encouraged to understand the global impact of narrow "unreceived" catholic teaching...think they should join the 21st century...