St. Louis Review publishes obituary for Sr. Mary Antona Ebo, FSM, an African-American sister involved, early, in the civil rights movement.

http://stlouisreview.com/article/2017-11-11/obituary-sister-ebo

She was 93 years old.  In 1946, she was one of the first three African-American women to enter the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, or, Sisters of St. Mary, organization.

She was a pastoral associate at St. Nicholas Church, St. Louis - http://stnickscatholicchurch.com/ .

She died November 11, 2017.

On December 11, 2005, twelve years ago, in another thirty days:  David Exposito, of Kansas City, was shot and killed, at the age of 64 years.  This is his obituary: 
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=15980548

This article was published in 2012, regarding his ex-wife, Clair McCaskill, Missouri Senator in Washington, D.C.: 
http://investigativerep.blogspot.com/2012/01/claire-mccaskill-d-missouri-slums-drugs.html .

A co-founder of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System of natural family planning died - Ann Prebil, from St. Louis, Missouri

According to the St. Louis Review, November 13-19, 2017 issue, Ann Prebill died on October 23, 2017, at the age of 71 years, after a nine-year battle with ovarian cancer.
Ann Prebill was one of the staff at St. Louis University, in 1976, that taught the natural family planning method.  She was a Registered Nurse, having graduated from St. John's Mercy School of Nursing, in 1967, and St. Louis University.
In 1977, she established the Dept. of FertilityCare Services at St. John's Mercy Medical (now Mercy), in St. Louis.

https://www.creightonmodel.com/ - The Creighton Model of Natural Family Planning

http://www.fertilitycare.org/ - FertilityCare Centers of America

https://aafcp.net/ - The American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals has a membership directory:  https://aafcp.net/membership-directory/

November 6-12, 2017, St. Louis Review - "On Contraception, Church must continue to defend life" article, on page 29.

According to the St. Louis Review, "ROME - The acceptance of artificial contraception by some Christian churches and communities beginning in the 1930s has led 'to the monstrosity of what is today known as procreative medicine,' which includes abortion, said German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller.  Inaugurating an Oct. 28 conference anticipating the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI's encyclical 'Humanae Vitae,' "...see:  http://stlouisreview.com/article/2017-11-03/nation-and-world

For information on an upcoming celebration in Ontario, California, on July 27-28, 2018, see:
http://celebratehv50.com/.   This is a celebration for the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae in the United States.

1968-2018 - 50 years of Humanae Vitae  

The letter, dated July 25, 1968,
ENCYCLICAL LETTER
HUMANAE VITAE
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
PAUL VI ... is published here:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae.html


Humanae Vitae is Latin, for "of human life". Latin is the "official" language of the Roman Catholic Church. 

January, 2017

http://stlouisreview.com/article/2017-01-12/archdiocese-opposes  and

http://stlouisreview.com/article/2017-01-19/city-aldermen-host -

articles in the St. Louis Review newspaper