Catholic Historian to Give Talk on 'Catholics and Contraception in Twentieth-Century America'

WORCESTER, Mass. – Leslie Woodcock Tentler, professor of history and director of the Center for American Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, will give a talk titled "Catholics and Contraception in Twentieth-Century America" on Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public.

Tentler’s book on the subject, Catholics And Contraception: An American History (Cornell University Press, 2004), deals with how pastors and lay Catholics have responded to church teachings on contraception over the course of a century.

The stated aim of the Deitchman Family Lectures in Religion and Modernity is to explore "the place of religious and spiritual life in a world that is sometimes at odds with faith, other times in search of it, and always at work reshaping it."

The series is sponsored by the College’s Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.