Our modern world has long critiqued the Catholic Church’s steadfast prohibition of contraception, claiming she is out of touch, or that her teaching is oppressive and sexist. At the height of the Sexual Revolution, Pope St. Paul VI strongly reaffirmed the Church’s teaching against contraception and predicted dire effects of contraception use that have today come true. The Church promotes Natural Family Planning as an alternative to contraception that cooperates with God’s will and respects the natural cycles of a women’s reproductive system.