I believe that the Humanae Vitae is one of the great tests of the Church in our times.  We live in days of moral laxity, where there is a shrinking from responsibility for rearing children and a love of carnal experience divorced from love of person.  In that world where love and life are made discontinuous, Paul VI affirms the deep relatedness of one to the other.  It was not an infallible decision; that would have too clearly separated sheep from goats; it was only a moral decision of the Chief Shepherd that the Vatican Council said the faithful should obey.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Seven Words to the Cross)