source: http:\/\/cal-catholic.com\/san-francisco-archbishop-defends-humanae-vitae\/<\/a><\/p>\n Archbishop Cordileone speaking at the Symposium on Advancing the New Evangelization in Kansas.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0(Credit: Michelle Harrison\/Benedictine College)<\/em><\/p>\n The promise of the sexual revolution and contraception was total sexual freedom for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSex is for fun and now women can have just as much fun without the consequences,\u201d Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said about the claims of the sexual revolution in a recent talk.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat was the cry of the day, and yet somehow it didn\u2019t work out that way,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n What went wrong? It\u2019s a question that the archbishop and other presenters attempted to answer at a symposium on\u00a0Humanae Vitae<\/i>\u00a0and the New Evangelization<\/i>\u00a0at Benedictine College in Kansas this past weekend. Cordileone was one of four featured keynote speakers, along with Dr. Janet Smith from Sacred Heart Major Seminary; Dr. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia; and Dr. Jennifer Roback-Morse, founder of the Ruth Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n The symposium covered a wide range of topics related to marriage and family life, and looked at why the teachings of the Church in\u00a0Humanae Vitae<\/i>\u00a0are the answer to many of the current cultural and societal problems surrounding sex, marriage and family.<\/span><\/p>\n In his talk, Archbishop Cordileone noted the dissonance in a society that on the one hand accepts divorce, contraception and all kinds of sexual deviance as normal, and on the other hand is baffled when thousands of women complain of sexual harassment as part of the #MeToo movement.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis is another major head scratcher for me. The whole point of these last 50 years was supposed to be liberation,\u201d Cordileone said. But \u201cno one dares to suggest that the problem is the very narrative [from the sexual revolution] itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Brad Wilcox, professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the\u00a0National Marriage Project<\/b><\/span><\/a>, also noted this cultural inconsistency in his talk about marriage inequality in America.<\/span><\/p>\n Wilcox noted that while the upper and middles classes say they are increasingly tolerant of family structure diversity and deviance from the two-married-parent household norm, they are usually more traditional in practice, while the poor are left to suffer the consequences of a culture that no longer values marriage and family.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFor me, all of this really matters because it has a direct impact on our kids,\u201d he said, noting that children who experience\u00a0unstable families<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on average have lower graduation and employment rates, are more likely to end up in trouble with the law, and are more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cal-catholic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Archbishop_Cordileone_speaking_at_the_Symposium_on_Advancing_the_New_Evangelization_in_Kansas_Credit_Michelle_Harrison_Benedictine_College_CNA.jpeg\")
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