Program Alert: Pope Paul VI vs Margaret Sanger

 

As the Catholic Church commemorates the 50th of  Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, EWTN will broadcast a special that will pit one of the churches staunch pro life popes against a rebellious, notorious feminist who wanted to kill a child as an act of mercy and exterminate the "negro population" because they are human weeds. You can see this debate on EWTN in two parts.

From EWTN:

Dr. Benjamin Wiker, creator and narrator of “Saints vs. Scoundrels,” pits Sanger against Blessed Pope Paul VI, the author of Humanae Vitae. His controversial encyclical outlined the dangers of birth control and urged Catholics to embrace the Church’s beautiful teaching on life and marriage at a time when birth control was universally praised as a “cure” for “unwanted pregnancy.”

Through a fictional interaction based on historic fact, Dr. Wiker gets to the heart of Sanger’s evil objectives. Using Sanger’s own words, Paul VI reveals how Planned Parenthood wishes to eliminate the poor and sick, minorities, and those whom Sanger calls, “idiots, morons, and high-grade imbeciles.”

What differentiates the saint and the scoundrel is clear: Truth and Love. While Sanger considered birth control and eugenics solutions for racial betterment and a source of women’s liberation from the snares of childrearing, Blessed Paul VI recognized the dangers. He warned that birth control “could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards… and [could not only lead to a man’s] disregarding [a woman’s] physical and emotional equilibrium, [but could also] reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection (Humanae Vitae, paragraph 17)."

All of the previous match-ups of “Saints vs. Scoundrels” are entertaining and informative in their own right, but “Saints vs. Scoundrels: Blessed Paul VI vs. Margaret Sanger” is one of the most important episodes because of the pervasiveness of Sangers’ destructive ideology in today’s culture.

Be sure to tune in to EWTN for Part 1, which airs 5:30 p.m. ET, Sunday, Feb. 4 with encores at 3:30 a.m. ET, Thursday, Feb. 8 and 6:30 a.m. ET, Saturday, Feb. 10. Part 2 airs the following week at the same times. For the many ways you can watch EWTN, please go to ewtn.com/everywhere.