My post was about past teaching, and I included quotes from Aquinas and Augustine as evidence. Today, I would say elements within the church are all over the map. The official teaching is probably different from Aquinas and Augustine.
True enough, as the members of both Congress and the state legislatures of the mid-19th Century that passed laws prohibiting the sale of (or in the Federal case, use of the mails for the distribution of) pornography, abortion, and birth control were overwhelmingly Protestant. However, by the mid-20th Century, when the barriers against these items were being challenged, the Catholic Church and many Catholic legislators favored the retention of such laws. One irony is that Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush and governor and senator of Connecticut, as well as a descendant of Puritans, was active in Planned Parenthood and favored repeal of laws prohibiting sale of birth control devices. The same was true of Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, mother of the actress Katharine Hepburn, an early feminist, and the scions of old Yankee Puritan families, such as Leverett Saltonstall and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., both 1930s-1950s examples of RINOs.
The descendants of the Yankee Puritans mostly practiced what they preached relative to small families. As a result, their descendants are a shrinking minority of the overall population of New England. The cultural, financial, and political leadership of the Northeastern states long ago slipped from their grasp. Unfortunately, too many Jews, Catholics, and evangelicals have followed the example of the old Yankee elite in terms of family size. Therefore, what happened to the Northeastern WASPs in the second half of the 20th Century may happen to the white population of the U.S. in this century.