Internationally recognized Humanae Vitae expert Dr. Janet Smith will deliver an exclusive talk to the Christendom community on Monday, February 5, titled: “Humanae Vitae, 50 Years Later: Progress or Regress?”. The talk, which will launch Christendom’s Major Speakers Program for the spring of 2018, will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the college’s St. Lawrence Commons.
Dr. Janet Smith will deliver the first Major Speaker lecture of the spring.
Smith is the author of Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later and of the Right to Privacy and the editor of Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader. Her articles have been published in many academic journals, and she has been a regular columnist for the National Catholic Register and has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN.
Smith has also served three terms as a consulter to the Pontifical Council on the Family and currently is a member of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission. She has received two honorary doctorates and several other awards for scholarship and service. More than two million copies of her talk, “Contraception: Why Not” have been distributed.