Pastors Preach Against Contraception From Pulpit

Through homilies, prayers and pamphlets, priests deliver message about beauty of Church’s teaching

The Catholic Church’s teaching that contraception is a grave sin is based on love, said Father Roger Landry, associate pastor at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford, Mass.

It follows from the idea that sexual intercourse in marriage should be an act in which a husband and wife offer themselves totally to one another, with no reservations, and with the possibility of the fruit of their love becoming manifest in a child, and it is indeed good news.

Too bad that many of the couples whom Father Landry has counseled as they prepared for marriage had never even heard that contraception is sinful, let alone why.

So, Father Landry spreads the word from the pulpit, including the Church’s teaching on contraception in his homilies at least a couple of times a year.

He did it again Feb. 12, in response to the Obama administration’s mandate that all employers who provide health insurance include coverage of contraceptive drugs, devices and sterilization at no added cost. According to a Feb. 18 profile in The New York Times, the homily was met with applause.

While a priest preaching about the sinfulness of contraception is apparently unusual enough to qualify as news in one of the nation’s leading newspapers, Father Landry isn’t the only one taking on the topic.

Father Jonathan Raia, associate pastor at St. William Catholic Church in Round Rock, Texas, used the government mandate as a springboard for discussing Church teaching on contraception in his homilies the weekend of Feb. 4-5.

No, you are also expected to pay for it yourself.

Many Christians ignore the “birth control” prohibition. It’s imminently impractical for many in the industrial world, is pretty darn ambiguous Biblically (Onan, be fruitful and multiply are vague and meaningless for modern-day people) and most think that they are not going to Hell for using a condom. That’s why people who say that “birth control” is evil are regarded as fringers and are political poison.

Thanks for the link.

Any errors in my post were not intentional. I was just trying to point out that natural family planning methods are just as effective in real world use as birth control pills. In addition they are less harmful, and cheaper as well.

My apologies for any terminology misuse.

Any errors in my post were not intentional.

I didn't intend to imply that. It was the source that made me wonder, with the presentation of information two generations out of date.

Your point is absolutely correct: NFP is free, healthy, environmentally-sound. Methods are very effective for not-conceiving, if practiced according to the instructions, and for helping with conception.

However, I believe it was Mother Teresa who observed that many couples do not love one another enough to practice NFP, which generally involves self-denial at times if the couple wishes to avoid conceiving.

You have a point. Said another way:

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." - G. K. Chesterton

Maybe those other denominational pastors need to read up on Humanae Vitae and other facts.

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They can be called pastors as well as it is derived from the Latin word for shepherd. This can be a parish priest or a bishop.

In Latin usage all members of Christ's Church are part of the community of priests. Among these we have ministerial priests or presbyters or deacons who assist the One High Priest, Jesus Christ by ministering to His flock

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