[jilliane]

And in all absolute seriousness, refusal to allow contraception would surely create more problems than it may solve if Catholic priests marry. It would cause a complete change and then the recognition of the church would be gone.

[tioga]

Contraception, priest marrying? What fantasy world do you live in?

“Get behind me, Satan.” Matthew 16:23

[Antoninus]

And in all absolute seriousness, refusal to allow contraception would surely create more problems than it may solve if Catholic priests marry. It would cause a complete change and then the recognition of the church would be gone.

For the record, I'm a relatively young Catholic. My wife and I have never practiced contraception and we have our 6th child on the way.

Rejecting the contraceptive mentality has been such a great blessing. Contraception is linked directly to divorce, STDs, sodomy, out-of wedlock-pregnancy, and ultimately abortion. It all stems from the false mindset that the sex act can be de-coupled from procreation without debasing the relationship between husband and wife. It can't.

Are you contracepting? If so, I would ask you, in absolute seriousness, to look into the Church's teachings on this issue very carefully and understand that every single dire prediction made when the idea of artificial contraception was first made widespread has come to pass in spades.

[AnAmericanMother]

And in all absolute seriousness, refusal to allow contraception would surely create more problems than it may solve if Catholic priests marry. It would cause a complete change and then the recognition of the church would be gone.

I'm confused. Are you saying that once Catholic priests are allowed to marry, the Church has to allow contraception, or there would be a complete change?

Doesn't that tell you something right there?

Basically, you have the opinion that all these innovations would be a GOOD thing for the Catholic church.

Will you please respond to my repeated factual information that these innovations were already tried in the Episcopal Church and it has been disastrous?

In other words, your opinion is wrong and the experiment has already been made, and it failed.

Why do you want to do it again, and destroy another church? One isn't enough?

(FYI, the Episcopal Church (Anglican in Britain) was the first church to allow contraception. That was at the Lambeth Conference in 1930. Before that, ALL churches forbade contraception.)