contraception? using a condom is now a mortal sin?
Well now, if you are married, you don’t need a condom, and if you are not married, you aren’t supposed to have sex outside of marriage, ergo, why do you need a condom?
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Only the "rhythm method" is morally acceptable to the Catholic Church...but only if it is used to beget babies, not avoid them. (And other forms of...ahem..."release" are strictly out of the question, too.)
Not judging it, just sayin'.
It's exactly analogous to binging and purging, except worse, since it's an abuse of one of man's greatest powers, the ability to cooperate in the creation of new souls.
Coercion and subjective understanding can mitigate personal guilt, however.
Always has been and for those of you who skipped religious history class you might want to learn what the protestants views/teachings on the subject were prior to the 1930 Lambeth conference.
Nothing new here. It's been considered a sin since Onan (Genesis) and that was the view of the original Protestant reformeres as well: Luther, Calcin, etc. There's not one Christian denomination that approved of contraception until the Anglican's OK'ed it at their Lambeth Conference in 1930.