Posted on 10/03/2008 8:05:10 AM PDT by Publius804
Dire circumstances. I'd like to point that out for those who are so gushing about NFP that they practically treat it as an eighth sacrament.
I'm sure he didn't say "rhythm method," since that's been surpassed by NFP.
I am very happy to have the pope voice the Church’s opposition to contraception. Benedict should repeat this loudly and often.
“The open letter in July by dissident Catholic bodies from countries including Britain, Brazil, Canada, France and the United States said the Church’s opposition to birth control endangered women’s lives and exposed millions of people to the risk of contracting AIDS.”
I’d would LOVE to hear the “logic” behind that assinine contention.
Snort.
Freeper Lesson #421 on How to Read an Article:
If an article uses the term “Rhythm Method” in reference to acceptable forms of Catholic natural family planning, it either speaks out of ignorance or does so as a means of mocking Catholic practices. As a minimum, the article should be regarded as highly unreliable.
The rhythm method has been considered obsolete for at least 20 years and such calendar-based methods are not even classified as natural family planning by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Catholic church currenly promotes natural family planning methods that are based on fertility awareness, such as tracking of basal body temperature.
What is NFP?
At the First Things blog, Amanda Shaw writes about Contraception and the Churches and concludes there is a marriage vocation shortage:
....Before 1930, no Christian Church permitted the use of contraception, but that years Lambeth Conference, with its approval of contraceptive intercourse, was the beginning of the end. If a church cannot tell its flock what to do with my body, as the saying goes, with regard to contraception, writes Eberstadt, then other uses of that body will quickly prove to be similarly off-limits to ecclesiastical authority. In short, homosexuality and sexual promiscuity willand didquickly follow.
It is worth noting that the link between contraception and the decay of sexual ethics was not first noticed by Eberstadt, nor by Pope Paul VI. With firm conviction, Pope Pius XI wrote Casti Connubi in December 1930, but the Catholic Church was hardly alone in it criticism. There was, for example, this editorial written in the Washington Post on March 22, 1931, immediately following the approval of the Lambeth resolution by the Federal Council of Churches in America. Anglican bishop Charles Gore does not falter, and, though few today would approve, his arguments have proven far too prophetic:
It is impossible to reconcile the doctrine of the divine Institution of marriage with any modernistic plan for the mechanical regulation or suppression of human birth. The church must either reject the plain teachings of the Bible or reject schemes for the scientific production of human souls. Carried to its logical conclusion, the committees report if carried into effect would sound the death-knell of marriage as a holy institution, by establishing degrading practices which would encourage indiscriminate immorality. The suggestion that the use of legalized contraceptives would be careful and restrained is preposterous.We often hear about the vocations crisis for ordained ministry and consecrated life. As a friend recently pointed out to me, we have today a major vocations crisis for marriage, too....It is the misfortune of the churches that they are too often misused by visionaries for the promotion of the reforms in fields foreign to religion. The departures from Christian teachings are astounding in many cases, leaving the beholder aghast at the willingness of some churches to discard the ancient injunction to teach Christ and Him crucified. If the churches are to become organizations for political and scientific propaganda they should be honest and reject the Bible, scoff at Christ as an obsolete and unscientific teacher, and strike out boldly as champions of politics and science as modern substitutes for the old-time religion.
More anti-Catholic conspiracy theoring.
Sort of depends on how you look at it, doesn’t it? I would argue that large families have lots of hands to help and hold each other, to help support the family. The only way modern society gets by without lots of children is by relying on the state instead of the family. The road to socializm is paved with contraception, FRiend.
Very astute point!
Agreed! Contraception & abortion both vigorously endorsed by leftists.
How did you get your arms out of that straight jacket?
Thanks. What’s the difference between that and rythym method?
Cite?
Okay, I've DARED to think about it.
My conclusion is that your arguments are stupid, and you've never bothered to actually educate yourself about the issue but just repeat the drivel you learned from anti-Catholic bigots.
DARE to think about that, and DARE to read what the other side has to say with an open mind. Start with Paul VI's prophecies in Humanae Vitae, and tell us which of those hasn't come true.
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