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Merton's Correspondence with:

Unidentified Priest regarding Birth Control

Unidentified Priest (RE: birth control - filed at the end of the sequence)  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1965
Volume: 1 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

In this letter, Merton provides his opinion on the debate at the time over whether birth control should be sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church.

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1. 1965/04/26 TL[c] from Merton The birth control issue is so thorny and so technical, and so far out of my usual line of thought, «detailed view»

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