Precisely what I have been saying for a long time has been fulfilled with frightening accuracy. The campaign to teach Catholics about "the Church's teaching on birth control" turns into "Natural Family Planning Awareness Week." NFP has become Catholic birth control. The USCCB is officially saying so and even spreading propaganda throughout every diocese in the country. If anyone has ever denied that NFP is now Catholic birth control, I hope they will take a look at this.
How much do you think they will talk about "grave reasons"? Will they really present NFP as something reserved only for emergency situations? Will couples be told that it is a "grave sin against the very nature of married life" to use NFP without a sufficiently grave reason?
Most definitely not, as is made clear by the title of the program, "A Way of Life, a Way of Love." They are NOT presenting NFP the way that Pope Pius XII did in his "Allocution to Italian Midwives." They are presenting it as the Catholic alternative to the pill.
What about fruitfulness as one of the 3 essential foundations of marriage? What about generosity in accepting children from God? Has the entire traditional Catholic view on marriage been tossed out the window?
Yes, clearly it has. To me this represents the apostasy of the post-conciliar Church even more than the New Mass or ecumenism. They have completely destroyed the authentically Catholic truth about marriage. And as the above excerpt makes clear, it can be traced back to that disastrous debacle of an encyclical, Humanae Vitae.
I'm in full agreement with you.
What are some examples of grave reasons? Or emergency situations?
sobering post.
Thanks for the pings, Land of the Irish.
We disagree on many things but most of this post of yours against NFP is right on target and needs regular attention and posting. What do you find substantively objectionable in Humanae Vitae and why?