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Resolution

on

HUMAN LIFE

FOUNDATION

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

November 20, 1975



Just over six years ago the Human Life Foun-

dation was established to encourage scientific

research in natural family planning, and to pro-

mote educational efforts that would enable

married couples to use responsibly those natural

methods of family planning “whose safeness has

been proven and whose harmony with the moral

order has been ascertained. (Constitution on the

Church in the Modern World, #87) The Founda-

tion was the first of its kind in the entire world,

and has played a major role in generating inter-

national interest and worldwide scientific re-

search.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops

takes this occasion to recognize with approval

and appreciation the dedicated work of the Board

of Directors, the Advisory Committees, and the

Staff of the Human Life Foundation. We realize

that those associated with the Foundation have

made generous sacrifices of time, energy and

personal interest to pursue the goals of the Foun-

dation, and we recognize the significant achieve-

ments that have resulted.

The work of the Foundation is far from com-

plete, and the accomplishments of the past gen-

erate a new spirit of confidence and a renewal

of hope for future activities.

In recognition and appreciation of the work of

the Foundation, we pledge our continued support,

encouragement and collaboration to insure that

the work so effectively begun will continue and

lead to more successful achievements in the

years ahead. The work of the Human Life Foun-

dation, in which we are proud to have a part,

will considerably advance the welfare of marriage

and the family, by leading those who are skilled

in the sciences—notably the medical, biological,
social and psychological—to pool their efforts in
perfecting the natural methods of family planning

so as to explain more thoroughly the various con-

ditions favoring a proper regulation of births,

(c.f. Constitution on the Church in the Modern

World, #52)

1975

Publications

UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE

1312 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20005