Problems of the SOUL? Trying to prevent the death of a mother is a problem of the soul? Tell her children that.
People need to hear the truth; eternity is at stake. If they can't hear it from an ordained representive of the Church of Christ, where can they hear it?
They need to hear the Truth applied to today's problems, and they need to see churchmen struggling with those problems. This is a tough situation, and to blithely dismiss it as a "problem of the soul" is, frankly, putting your head in the sand.
If the issue of contraceptives isn't a "problem of the soul"-both of the individual, and society at large-then the Church shouldn't even be dealing with it at all. Using a contraceptive is, objectively speaking, always a mortal sin, so you're damn right it's a problem of the soul.
Instead of telling me to get my head out of the sand, maybe you'd better put yours in the clouds(ie, Heaven). For an ordained member of the Church, you don't seem to think about that very much(nor Hell, or grace, or purgatory, or the Blessed Mother, or the sufferings of Christ or...).