Posted on 01/25/2014 3:16:31 AM PST by NYer
On July 25, 1968, Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae re-affirmed the Catholic teaching on life, love and human sexuality. In that document, he listed the consequences of life lived outside Catholic teaching.
He predicted that:
1. Contraception would lead to conjugal infidelity.
2. Contraceptive practice would lead to a “general lowering of morality.”
3. Contraception would lead men to cease respecting woman in their totality and would cause them to treat women as “mere instruments of selfish enjoyment” rather than as cherished partners.
4. And finally, widespread acceptance of contraception by couples would lead to a massive imposition of contraception by unscrupulous governments.
In other words, Pope Paul VI predicted that contraception would evolve from “a lifestyle choice” into a weapon of mass destruction. How dreadfully his prophecy has been vindicated by population control and coercive sterilization programs, fertility reduction quotas and the promotion of abortion literally everywhere in the world.
Contraception’s destruction of the integrity of the marital act—as unitive and procreative—has dire consequences for society and for our souls. Contraception, in other words, is a rejection of God’s view of reality. It is a wedge driven into the most intimate sphere of communion known to man outside of the Holy Sacrament of the Mass. It is a degrading poison that withers life and love both in marriage and in society.
By breaking the natural and divinely ordained connection between sex and procreation, women and men—but especially men—would focus on the hedonistic possibilities of sex. People would cease seeing sex as something that was intrinsically linked to new life and to the sacrament of marriage.
Does anyone doubt that this is where we find ourselves today?
Hitler would have killed a lot more, that’s what makes him rather equivalent to Stalin, but it’s a real mistake for people in this country to think we are immune to performing or allowing that kind of behavior
There have been 56,000,000 babies killed through abortion in this country in 41 years. That doesn’t include abortions due to birth control pill
http://www.prolife.com/birthcnt.html
That makes this country worse than communist Russia, in terms of numbers of murders of innocents
Makes hitler look like a Boy Scout, one could say
The catechism cites scripture, theologians and tradition
What it says about abortion takes a mere two and a half pages, not because its not an portant subject. But because it is simple
Once a person is conceived, it is a person, and has the right to live that is equal to every other person, including, of course, the mother
There ya go!
Notice he doesn’t say ‘abortion’ causes the problems, he says ‘contraception’ causes the trouble. Contraception causes abotion, and the cause ofg the culture of death is the striving for efficiency
CC
Thank you for assembling all the details!
I missed the sarcasm. I confess to being dreadfully literal.
Under abortion the United States has killed NINE TIMES more than Hitler since 1973.
Understandable.
I also think Mr Rienzi could have made the statement more artful——instead of using the sarcasm in a run-on sentence.
Still, regardless of Mr. Rienzi’s intent, it’s true that we have “the government” - public schools for example, and county health departments, and government-funded Planned Parenthood - delivering contraceptives (and abortions) to the public.
That document was stunningly predictive. Keep in mind when he wrote that China was still ‘pro family’. All that one child stuff came after. Pope was right on the money.
That little change made huge impacts and changed something from the creation of life to an indoor sport.
Almost as if the Holy Spirit was involved!
Yup :)
The Amish because they will not resist government authority.
The Muslims because the Islamic-system is a totalitarian one and therefore useful to the statist.
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