En se basant sur l’étude de deux organisations de pastorale familiale impliquant des couples laïcs (le Centre national de pastorale familiale et la revue Feuilles Familiales) et d’une organisation d’Action catholique féminine spécialisée (les Ligues ouvrières féminines chrétiennes), cet article examine l’élaboration et la diffusion en Belgique francophone dans les années 1960 d’une morale conjugale catholique basée sur l’intention des époux·ses et ouverte à la contraception. Il montre comment cette proposition pastorale, opérant une sécularisation de l’intime, a favorisé des attitudes de contournement de l’encyclique Humanæ Vitæ (1968), mais aussi comment elle a permis de limiter certaines sorties du religieux en revendiquant une catholicité distanciée des prescriptions morales cléricales en matière de sexualité. Dès le début des années 1970, cette contre-norme catholique devient la base d’une éthique familialiste de la contraception diffusée par des organisations catholiques à l’échelle nationale grâce au soutien de l’État, dans un contexte de mobilisation contre l’avortement.
Based on the study of two organizations involved in pastoral care for families (the National Centre for Family Pastoral Care and the magazine Feuilles Familiales) and a specialised women’s Catholic Action organization (the Christian Women's Worker Leagues), this article examines how in the 1960’s a new Catholic conjugal morality, based on the spouses’“intention” and open to birth control, emerged and spread in French-speaking Belgium. It shows how this pastoral proposal, which led to a secularization of the intimate, encouraged attitudes that circumvented the encyclical ) and a specialised women’s Catholic Action organization (the Christian Women's Worker Leagues), this article examines how in the 1960’s a new Catholic conjugal morality, based on the spouses’“intention” and open to birth control, emerged and spread in French-speaking Belgium. It shows how this pastoral proposal, which led to a secularization of the intimate, encouraged attitudes that circumvented the encyclical Humanæ Vitæ (1968), but also how it made it possible to limit certain religious defections by claiming a Catholicity that was distanced from clerical moral prescriptions in matters of sexuality. From the beginning of the 1970s, this Catholic counter-norm became the basis of a family-centered ethic of contraception disseminated by Catholic organizations on a national scale with state support, in a context of mobilization against abortion.(1968), but also how it made it possible to limit certain religious defections by claiming a Catholicity that was distanced from clerical moral prescriptions in matters of sexuality. From the beginning of the 1970s, this Catholic counter-norm became the basis of a family-centered ethic of contraception disseminated by Catholic organizations on a national scale with state support, in a context of mobilization against abortion.
Basado en el estudio de dos organizaciones de pastoral familiar que involucran a parejas laicas (el Centro Nacional de Pastoral Familiar y la revista Feuilles Familiales) y una Organización de Acción Católica para Mujeres especializada (las Ligues Ouvrières Féminines Chrétiennes), este artículo examina el desarrollo y la difusión en Bélgica francófona en la década de 1960 de una moral marital católica basada en la intención de los cónyuges y abierta a la anticoncepción. Muestra cómo esta propuesta pastoral, operando una secularización de lo íntimo, propició actitudes de elusión de la encíclica Humanæ Vitæ (1968), pero también cómo permitió limitar ciertas salidas de los religiosos al reclamar una catolicidad alejada de las prescripciones moral clerical en materia de sexualidad. Desde principios de la década de 1970, esta contra norma católica se convirtió en la base de una ética familiarista de la anticoncepción difundida por las organizaciones católicas a nivel nacional gracias al apoyo del Estado, en un contexto de movilización contra el aborto.
