[Mrs. Don-o]

You have hit upon a most important point: the role contraception played, and is playing, in destroying religious vocations. In a family with 6 kids, it is perfectly natural, in fact a happy expectation, to hope that one or two will be vowed religious or priests. Large families are the indispensable seedbeds of religious vocations.

Today, few Catholic parents would want one or both of their 2.0 planned kids to take vows of celibacy.

Contraception is also what is killing marriage --- across the board, for people of all religions. It is killing the marriage culture: families, cities, nations and civilizations. But contraception killed Holy Orders first.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Not just contraception....but economics. Kids are EXPENSIVE these days! We only have one.