Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani and his conservative associates in the papal curia during Vatican Council II (1964) in oppos- ing any change in the Church's moral and doctrinal teachings, the Council provoked a deeper examination of human sexuality and a closer look at the Church's views on the subject. So writes Father Mur- phy, rector of Holy Redeemer College in Washington, D.C.
Much of the confusion now surrounding Catholic teachings on con-
jugal love springs from the mistaken notion that the basic...