[paudio]

So, according to this priest, having no problem with contraception is the same as supporting legal abortion? Both are the ground for denying communion?

[AliVeritas]

What does contraception do?

[Right in Wisconsin]

Catholic church views most contraceptives as abortive of a vial fetus, whether newly fertilized egg (the pill, etc.) or later. The key is life begins at conception and anything used to end that life is against Catholic teaching. Using condoms, etc., is against the Church because it believes that procreation is the purpose of sexual intercourse - and that teaches us not to waste seed. Any Catholics more knowledgable than I please correct me if I am wrong but this is how I understand it.

[Frank Sheed]

http://www.ewtn.com/library/PRIESTS/FR93103.TXT

You might want to have a gander at this rather long article before you judge. It places things in their proper perspective about "harmless contraception."

[Salvation]

**So, according to this priest, having no problem with contraception is the same as supporting legal abortion? Both are the ground for denying communion?**

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                From the Catechism of the Catholic Church (click on the book for the link.)    

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).

 

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.

[davidwendell]

They are not the same, but they are both serious enough to warrant the decision by a priest to withhold communion in certain circumstances.

[dbz77]

Sheltering homosexual pedophile priests is apparently insufficient grounds for denying communion.