News like this is nothing more than stick with which to beat religious people -- "You're all hypocrites!".
I can look at anyone on the planet (definitely including myself) and say, "You really should be a better person. Why do you do the things which you know are wrong?" This is our lot in life. We try and we fail. The failure does not irrevocably condemn us. There can still be salvation.
The ban on that stuff needs to be read weekly, from every pulpit. It needs to be made clear to people that using that stuff IS a sin, and they WILL stop if they are to be good Catholics. That they need to toe the line, follow the rules, or keep the heck out of Church until they change their minds and hit the confessional.
The Church is not a cafeteria. Many are called, few are chosen.
Some increased education on how to use natural family planning methods would really help. They are far more effective than the old methods. If correctly instructed, Catholic couples would also see a wonderful improvement in their communication skills. It’s a win, win!
Such training should be a required part of marriage preparation.
The problem with contraception is it isn’t just contracepting. The pill is an abortifacient. If the egg is fertilized, the pill prevents it from implanting and the light bleeding that is seen is the fertilized egg being aborted. The IUD does the same thing.
And other forms of BC just aren’t that effective. The Church encourages large famillies, but try enrolling a bunch of children in Catholic schools. The tuitions are exorbitant. The only options for large Catholic families that have small means is to send their children to public schools or to home school.
the Church is not a club, political party nor are they running some kind of popularity contest, which must have ideological purity and group consensus.
The Church is simply pointing out God’s Law as it relates to humans. We have free will. Ignore them if you wish, just know that at some point, there will be consequences.
It’s one of the few areas were conservative Protestants and liberal Catholics can usually agree.
Freegards
Guttmacher: A research institute named after a president of Planned Parenthood and vice president of the American Eugenics Society.
A Planned Parenthood organization.
Does Catholicism also forbid sexual acts that cannot cause pregnancy?