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In a 1,500word statement issued after their week-long meeting in Washington, more than 200 Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops attacked popular talk of a world "population explosion" as "a smoke screen behind which a moral evil may be foisted on the public." Denounced by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy...
With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike...
Judge the Measure. More calmly, Kennedy stated that he had in fact felt "for many years" that it would be a "mistake" for the U.S. Government to advocate birth control in other countries. "We have to be very careful how we give advice on this subject," said he, noting that...
As Kennedy's challenge to the other candidates began to take, Adlai Stevenson (Unitarian) said that the U.S. "should not impose birth control programs on foreign countries," but the U.S. should not "hesitate to consider requests for aid to birth control programs from foreign countries where population growth is...
New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (unaffiliated) sidestepped the debate with a curt "no comment." Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Disciples of Christ) said nothing. California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, doubtless sharing the discomfort of fellow Catholic Kennedy, said "the question of the regulation...