The UK-based Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research has released a ‘Catholic Scholars’ Statement on the Ethics of Using Contraceptives’. It says that “there are no grounds, either from the Bible or from nature, to support current Catholic teaching” on contraception.
Catholic theology being a fairly small world, I'm good friends with several of the signatories (and Facebook ones with rather more). During recent ill health, one prominent signee sent me a lovely message of prayers and good wishes; I once shared an office with another.
