Editing Humanae vitae (section)

===Pope Francis===
{{See also|Theology of Pope Francis#Sexual morality as Good News}}
On 16 January 2015, Pope Francis said to a meeting with families in Manila, insisting on the need to protect the family: "The family is{{nbsp}}[...] threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. I think of Blessed Paul VI. At a time when the problem of population growth was being raised, he had the courage to defend openness to life in families. He knew the difficulties that are there in every family, and so in his Encyclical he was very merciful towards particular cases, and he asked confessors to be very merciful and understanding in dealing with particular cases. But he also had a broader vision: he looked at the peoples of the earth and he saw this threat of the destruction of the family through the privation of children [original Spanish: {{lang|es|destrucción de la familia por la privación de los hijos}}]. Paul VI was courageous; he was a good pastor and he warned his flock of the wolves who were coming."<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/es/speeches/2015/january/documents/papa-francesco_20150116_srilanka-filippine-incontro-famiglie.html |title = Sri Lanka - Filipinas: Encuentro con las familias en el Mall of Asia Arena (Manila, 16 de enero de 2015) &#124; Francisco}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nidoy |first=Raul |date=2015-01-26 |title=The Pope's most insistent message |url=https://opinion.inquirer.net/82016/the-popes-most-insistent-message |access-date= |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |language=en}}</ref>

A year before, on 1 May 2014, [[Pope Francis]], in an interview given to Italian newspaper {{lang|it|[[Corriere della Sera]]}}, expressed his opinion and praise for {{lang|la|Humanae vitae}}: "Everything depends on how {{lang|la|Humanae vitae}} is interpreted. Paul VI himself, in the end, urged confessors to be very merciful and pay attention to concrete situations. But his genius was prophetic, he had the courage to take a stand against the majority, to defend moral discipline, to exercise a cultural restraint, to oppose present and future [[Malthusianism#Modern formulation|neo-Malthusianism]]. The question is not of changing doctrine, but of digging deep and making sure that pastoral care takes into account situations and what it is possible for persons to do."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350783bdc4.html?eng=y|title=Francis, the Pope of "Humanae Vitae"|website=chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it|access-date=2019-11-30}}</ref>