[Campion]

her doctors told her that another pregnancy would be very dangerous and probably life threatening. After my brother and sister in law consulted with their priest, and with a letter from her doctors stating the dangers of another pregnancy she was given a "dispensation" to have a tubaligation.

That priest needs to go back to seminary and get a refresher course in moral theology, because I don't think it "took" the first time.

Unfortunately, there's plenty like him.

[Kolokotronis]

“That priest needs to go back to seminary and get a refresher course in moral theology, because I don’t think it “took” the first time.”

Sounds to me like this priest was attempting to grant economia to the woman. That is of course the province of a bishop, not the parish priest unless the bishop has delegated the authority to his priests, for example when a parish priest will allow reception of communion without fasting by people who for medical reasons must eat in the morning.

It is my understanding, however, that the Roman Church does not practice economia, at least to any extent. Is this true?

I also note that any absolute ban on artificial non abortiofacient birth control would be unlikely to be considered an appropriate subject for a dogmatic proclamation and if it were so declared, the people would reject it, as it appears from polls Roman Catholics have. In Orthodoxy, that would be the end of it.