Dr. Janet Smith Podcasts

Contaception, Why Not?

Janet E. Smith (1950-) is a professor of moral theology and the Fr. Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Issues at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. She previously taught at the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dallas[citation needed]. She is a consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family.
       For the fall semester of the 2008-2009 academic year, Smith is a visiting lecturer at the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) in St. Paul, MN. Her course is titled: John Paul II and Humanae Vitae.
       Smith is known in Catholic circles for her adherence to orthodox Catholicism as well as for having given the talk Contraception: Why Not, 1,000,000 copies of which have been distributed throughout the world.

• Contaception, Why Not, Part 1
• Contaception, Why Not, Part 2

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Dr. Smith debates Fr. Charles Curran on Contraception

Pro-Life activist Dr. Janet Smith debated the dissenter Fr. Charles Curran in front of a packed Dallas audience in 1994. Dr. Smith and Fr. Curran are widely recognized as the top proponents of their respective positions on the contraception issue (at least in the US), and it's a rare occurrence indeed to hear two figures of their stature debating each other live.

• Dr. Smith debates Fr. Charles Curran on Contraception, Part 1
• Dr. Smith debates Fr. Charles Curran on Contraception, Part 2