Benedict reveals dissatisfaction with Paul VI's 'Humanae Vitae' (the anti-contraception encyclical)

Retired Pope Benedict XVI reveals in a new set of interviews that he was among those who were dissatisfied with Pope Paul VI's 1968 teaching prohibiting Catholics from using artificial birth control.

In a new book published in Italy Friday, the retired pontiff says that while he agreed with the conclusions Paul drew in the encyclical Humanae Vitae he had trouble with the argumentation.

"In the situation I was then in, and in the context of theological thinking in which I stood, Humanae Vitae was a difficult text for me," Benedict says in the book, to be published in the U.S. Nov. 3 by Bloomsbury under the title Last Testament: In His Own Words.

"It was certainly clear that what it said was essentially valid, but the reasoning, for us at that time, and for me too, was not satisfactory," Benedict states.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/benedict-reveals-dissatisfaction-paul-vis-humanae-vitae

Probably not the best headline, but interesting nonetheless.

I still am not able to understand how contraception can be viewed as sinful.