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Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer ( EYE-ten-our) became president of Human Life International in December of 2000. Human Life International is the world’s largest pro-life organization with affiliate offices and associates in seventy-five countries around the world. In five years of service to this unique mission Fr. Euteneuer has traveled more than 500,000 miles as a pro-life missionary and visited more than forty countries.

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Catholic ping!

[wideawake]

Catholic or not, as a practical matter, the use or promotion of contraception is tantamount to the promotion of Islamism.

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"Every sperm is sacred/Every sperm is grand!"

[Dajjal]

"Sexual Suicide" bump

[livius]

Good article, and very true. I attribute many of our problems in the Church - that is, the attitude problems, which in turn lead to doctrinal problems - with the contracepting mentality and the fact that the clergy not only permitted but even encouraged the faithful to take an attitude of defiance to traditional Catholic teaching (reaffirmed even by one such as Paul VI) on the matter. This planted a fundamental disconnect between the faith and the practice of the church, sowed disobedience, and gave people the idea that they could pick the parts that appealed to them and ignore the rest.

This is without even getting into its disastrous effect on family life, sexual life, the Catholic birth rate, and the future of Europe...

[Salvation]

This series of Created and Redeememd by Christopher West is a fantastic CD set -- I think it is only $4.00. Book and workbook are great also. This subject (contraception) is covered in his series -- it belongs in the culture of death.

For your information:

Christopher West's Theology of the Body Webiste

Books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, etc.

From book by the same name by Pope John Paul II.

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2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).

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2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:

Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.

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Clerical Contraception (Important Read! By Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer)

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Great points from Fr. Euteneuer! I remember one year on Father's Day, our priest in Oklahoma spoke about courageous fathers, and mentioned that being neutered was NOT courageous ... what a shock on the congregation!

I have to say that this point:
Contracepting men and women who are not warned of their sin and who therefore do not repent of it risk the death of their immortal souls ...

is accurate but a bit, er, nuanced. While contraception is objectively "grave matter," the couple is only guilty of that particular mortal sin if they have full knowledge of its sinfulness and full consent of the will.

It's true that they're guilty of venial sin, even if they do not have the full knowledge and full consent, and that participation in the sin of contraception can lead to other sins and therefore, as Father says, "risk the death of their immortal souls.

[Dumb_Ox]

Pastorally speaking, is it right to speak of such things from the pulpit? Children are present, and in such circumstances specific sexual matters are generally eschewed in favor of circumlocutions.