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vii Acknowledgments f Chapter 1 was originally published in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9, no. 3 (Fall 2009) and is reprinted by permission . An earlier and less-developed form of chapters 2 and 3 originally appeared as “Contraception, Sexual Behavior and Natural Law” in the Linacre Quarterly (1988). This original material was stylistically revised and integrated with material that had been later written by the author and originally published in German. This new material was translated by Joseph T. Papa, as were the essays that now appear as chapters 4, 5, and 6. Chapter 4 was originally published in the Josephinum Journal of Theology 14, no. 2 (August 2009) and is reprinted with permission. Chapter 7, which originally appeared in the American Journal of Jurisprudence, was translated by Paolo Carozza and is reprinted by permission. Acknowledgments regarding some of the additional texts are included in the author ’s introduction. Some of the translation and editing expenses for this volume were generously funded by the Cardinal Pio Laghi Chair of the Pontifical College Josephinum. ...

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