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To: FormerLib

Go ahead, flame me.

I just don't think every couple who wishes to have sex must have to have 25 children if they do.


8 posted on 02/15/2007 2:41:27 PM PST by RockinRight (When Chuck Norris goes to bed at night, he checks under the bed for Jack Bauer.)
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To: RockinRight

This is a caucus thread that addresses the Catholic faith and teachings regarding contraception.


10 posted on 02/15/2007 2:44:05 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RockinRight
I just don't think every couple who wishes to have sex must have to have 25 children if they do.

By "couple", I am assuming you mean 'married'. If so, then you have entirely missed the point. Sex is the only means to produce offspring. Marital sex does not entail generating 25 children. Read the Fathers, again.

28 posted on 02/15/2007 4:34:41 PM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: RockinRight

One thing that I've noticed in the US is that Roman Catholic families and Orthodox Christian families are about the same in numbers of children.

There are exceptions, of course. My dad was one of 8 children and my mother was one of nine (no, that's not a name you Star Trek geeks!). However, you don't see many families that large any more.


29 posted on 02/15/2007 4:35:06 PM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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