Posted on 01/16/2015 10:01:32 AM PST by Steelfish
Pope Strongly Defends Church Teaching Against Contraception MANILA, Philippines — Jan 16, 2015 By NICOLE WINFIELD and OLIVER TEVES Pope Francis issued his strongest defense yet of church teaching opposing artificial contraception on Friday, using a rally in Asia's largest Catholic nation to urge families to be "sanctuaries of respect for life."
Francis also denounced the corruption that has plagued the Philippines for decades and urged officials to instead work to end its "scandalous" poverty and social inequalities during his first full day in Manila, where he received a rock star's welcome at every turn.
Security was tighter than it has ever been for this pope, who relishes plunging into crowds. Cellphone service around the city was intentionally jammed for a second day on orders of the National Telecommunications Commission and roadblocks along Francis' motorcade route snarled traffic for miles (kilometers).
Police vans followed his motorcade while officers formed human chains in front of barricades to hold back the tens of thousands of wildly cheering Filipinos who packed boulevards for hours just for a glimpse of his four-door Volkswagen passing by.
Police said another 86,000 gathered outside one of Manila's biggest sports arenas, capacity 20,000, where Francis held his first encounter with the Filipino masses: a meeting with families. There, he firmly upheld church teaching opposing artificial contraception and endeared himself to the crowd with off-the-cuff jokes and even a well-intentioned attempt at sign language.
Francis has largely shied away from emphasizing church teaching on hot-button issues, saying the previous two popes made the teaching well-known and that he wants to focus on making the church a place of welcome, not rules.
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homosexuals can not breed...their unions produce nothing...
you can not have it both ways, Pope Francis....demanding that heterosexuals use restraint and discipline instead of contraception while you by all accounts condone homosexual relationships....which has got to be about 100x worse morally than using artificial contraception...
it sounds like the onus of SIN in only going to be on heterosexuals....
Man, he just told >85% of Catholic couples they’re in sin!
My Amish neighbors all have 8-14 kids.
My Catholic neighbors top out at three, typically. Some two. Some one. They aren’t young couples either.
I guess they aren’t catechized very well... I don’t mean the Amish ones.
They probably are. And >85% of Protestant couples probably are as well. Your Amish (I assume you're using the word literally) neighbors are to be commended. The rest of the West needs to get over its pathological hatred of babies.
“They probably are.”
At least they are opposing El Pope.
“And >85% of Protestant couples probably are as well.”
Sorry, not under the oversight of El Pope’s opinions or teachings.
“Your Amish (I assume you’re using the word literally) neighbors are to be commended.”
I was literal. The farms start about a half mile from my home. They are nice people.
As in prior ages, this Pope is essentially hanging in there preaching something like “Earth is flat” dogma.
While I can certainly understand the sin of artificial birth control when used to enable promiscuity; I cannot see it when used between committed married couples.
Right is right, wrong is wrong, regardless of who’s saying it. Even “El Pope”.
Contraception is an evil. It stands in opposition to God’s gifts to us in our human nature. It treats male fertility as poison, female fertility as a disease. Both are wrong; the real disease is spiritual, in those who reject God. Some contracept, some abort, some bugger ... all suffer the same diseased spirit. The West’s pathological hatred/fear of babies is cultural suicide.
Pope Francis criticizes gay marriage, backs ban on contraception
AIDS, spread primarily through promiscuous sodomy, is incurable. I have seen reports suggesting that there are also strains of syphilis and gonorrhea so resistant to antibiotics as to be virtually incurable.
For 2000 years Christianity has steadfastly opposed contraception even between spouses.
Now which is more likely, that we in this age got it wrong, or that every other Christian in every other age got it wrong?
EVERY Catholic is obliged to maintain chastity according to their state in life. Masturbation is prohibited completely on all levels. Sex outside of Sacramental marriage is prohibited.
Within marriage, fidelity to one's spouse must be absolute. That includes staying away from pornography, as it is a lust in one's heart for one who is not one's spouse.
In a world that abuses its freedoms, it seems archaic, I know. But that is the Church's teaching on the subject, for those who are unaware.
God bless you!
Yes indeed. It is also the idea that babies are an error and that the procreative could be separated from the unitive aspect of sex which has lead to acceptance of abortion and of homosexual behavior.
... homosexuals can not breed ...Celibate priests also cannot breed.
” while you by all accounts condone homosexual relationships....”
Show me where he EVER did that.
“I guess they aren’t catechized very well...”
They aren’t. My parish is different. The smaller families have five kids. Other families in my parish have 7, 8 or more children. One woman in the parish just had her 7th child, and, at 31 years old, she’ll have another four or more yet.
“I cannot see it when used between committed married couples.”
Really committed married couples do not use contraception.
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“Right is right, wrong is wrong, regardless of who’s saying it. Even “El Pope”.”
I agree. I only disagree with the Pope’s view of what is right.
“They aren’t. My parish is different. The smaller families have five kids. Other families in my parish have 7, 8 or more children. One woman in the parish just had her 7th child, and, at 31 years old, she’ll have another four or more yet.”
I don’t know vladimir... My Amish neighbors are outproducing your catholics 2 to 1. Maybe Germans are more fertile??
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