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Catholics and Contraception: An American History (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)
Leslie Woodcock Tentler (Paperback) Cornell Univ Pr 2009-01
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The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to active homosexuality, abortion, euthanasia and contraception. All of these are methods of ending or stopping the creation of a Roman Catholic life.
Morality? Or a way of keeping numbers up in a dwindling Church?
Mostly I suspect the last point, for almost all religion controls people through fear, and when a child is indoctrinated with that habit of attending Catholic mass and being fearful of God, as the church erroneously teaches, the possibility of them leaving even after they reach the age of reasoning for themselves is highly unlikely..
Thus the church*s membership and coffers continue to expand even though increasing numbers are ignoring some of the teachings about sexuality..
When people believe wholly the teachings of the Catholic church, their joy in life and sexuality is largely removed and replaced by fear and a pride that, in many, expresses itself as an attitude of quiet superiority..
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I'm catholic but I remember my sunday school teachers saying we didn't however my boyfriend who is also catholic says they just approved it. i need help.
No. The Catholic Church has consistently taught against the use of contraception.
Sex outside of marriage is a sin. Within marriage, a couple should be one with each other, one with God, and open to the expression of love in procreation.
Your boyfriend has been misinformed.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Co ntrol.asp
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/contrac eption.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment /faith/article4541181.ece
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2964/ birthcontrol.html
Birth control was something all faiths denounced (including the Methodist church, Fireball) for centuries. But over time, all caved in to societal pressure, except the Catholic Church.
Contraception reduces sex to a physical act of pleasure. It allows for people to use sex for selfish reasons instead of the love/life giving reasons God gave it to us. Sex is sacred, it is meant to be shared between a husband and wife, giving of themselves to each other without holding anything back...not even their fertility.
The Church does teach that a couple can abstain from sex if financial, emotional, or psychological issues make it necessary to avoid pregnancy. While sometimes this is misunderstood as "Catholic birth control" it isn't. Abstaining from sex can be a sacrifice, and if so, a couple can pray and offer it up to God.
Statistics show that married couples have sex on an average of 2 times a week. If a Catholic couple who needed to avoid pregnancy were to have sex every day they could they'd average twice as often. So, even though some people assume you have less sex when doing Natural Family Planning, in reality you don't.
Also, hormonal contraception has side effects and is unhealthy. It can cause women to gain weight, be moody, and bloated. Women on birth control also have a higher risk of breast cancer.
All in all, the Church teaches that sex is an expression of our love for God, and each other. This expression is also God's confirmation of the goodness of his creation. Children are a gift, and God allows us to participate in the miracle of procreation, when we use contraception, we basically tell God to butt out.
ADDED: The comment that the Catholic Church teaches that sex is only for procreation, this is not a true statement. The Church teaches that sex is meant to unite a husband and wife in love and giving of self. Couples who are infertile through no fault of their own can have sex, couples can have sex during infertile times when their is no possibility of pregnancy. Couples are encouraged to express their love for each other in physical intimate ways, but that expression must not purposefully include a barrier, or other artificial means to prevent pregnancy.
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Africa has been the biggest area of new recruits to the catholic church, around 50% have aids which could be prevented using condoms yet the pope will still not allow it. Why would god allow this or want this?
Because they think that there's a magical being living in the sky who might want to give people a baby, whether or not they're starving or have AIDS, and they think that we shouldn't interfere with that magical being's decision to give a person a baby. (Even if that baby is going to die of starvation or AIDS in six months.)
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they say that a condom is preventing life by wasting sperm etc so isn't masturbating the same thing in prospect; one is surely wasting sperm in this instance and this should surely be against the Catholic Church's principles.
like most hippocrites, they SAY they are against it,
but they actually do it!
just like birth control
Catholic do not use it, and Jews can use it as long as it is temporary and not used to completely prevent life for an indefinite time.
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This week, under the category of “news that made me say WTF!” was this little story about students at Georgetown University taping their mouths and chaining themselves to a statue in front of the school in protest of the fact the Georgetown doesn’t provide or help to provide contraceptive options like condoms to it’s students. The school, a private Catholic university stands by the religious policies of the Catholic church under which it was founded and refuses to provide any contraception that prevents the creation of life. Let the debate begin!
...Head of English Catholics admits condom argument is #39;attractive ...
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The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, admitted that arguments in favour of providing condoms in poor countries are “attractive”. But he insisted it was the Church’s job to tackle the “radical issues” of poverty and security in the developing world and not to join calls for contraception.
His comments appear to go against Catholic teaching, which rules out use of artificial contraception but allows for “natural” birth control. Last year Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed the Vatican’s hardline stance during his first papal to Africa when he claimed that handing out condoms can worsen the problem of HIV/Aids.
Archbishop Nichols told BBC Radio WM that he could see “why” the arguments in favour of condoms to protect women in poor countries were, in the short term, “attractive”. “I think when it comes to Third World poverty, and the great pressure under which many women are put by men, I can see the arguments why, in the short-term, (the) means that give women protection are attractive,” he said.
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Archbishop Nichols is saving the Catholic Church from the condom trapTelegraph.co.uk (blog) - Apr 02, 2010
Lusaka TimesThe Archbishop did not (could not) tear up and throw away Catholic teaching on contraception. He did not say that priests and missionaries could promote The Catholic Church: Still Denouncing ContraceptionCatholic archbishop speaks out on contraceptionCatholic bishop quot;understands arguments for condomsquot;nbsp;-nbsp;-all 52 news articlesnbsp;raquo;
CBS News - Apr 02, 2010
CBC.caThe Catholic Church#39;s Blind Spot?Most Catholics take a flexible view of the church#39;s teachings on sexuality. They use birth control--how else could Italy, Spain and Poland have among the Marney Rich KeenanThe Catholic Church: A Safe Haven For Criminals?The pontiff is not so potentnbsp;-nbsp;-all 6,052 news articlesnbsp;raquo;
Chicago Tribune (blog) - Apr 02, 2010
Not the type described by many imaginative souls in which the Catholic Church ordains women, marries priests and approves of contraception.Austin American-Statesman (blog) - Apr 02, 2010
The Catholic ReviewCouncil to ask centers to post signs if they don#39;t offer abortionsBut he said the centers usually don#39;t offer abortions or comprehensive birth control services and often fail to advise their clients that those services are Making “Pregnancy Centers” Tell the TruthTruth in advertisingAbortion Advocates Target Pregnancy Centers in Austin, Texas With Sign Lawnbsp;-nbsp;-all 43 news articlesnbsp;raquo;
Huffington Post (blog) - Apr 02, 2010
Losing My Religion: One Catholic#39;s Crisis of FaithBut a regular everyday Catholic who commits the sin of using birth control must refrain from taking communion. It doesn#39;t make sense. So as Holy Week began, and morenbsp;raquo;Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Apr 01, 2010
Gordon Brown calls Catholics #39;the conscience of our country#39; (ie, he wants I pass on this from the website of the National Association of Catholic Families: “In view of Archbishop Nichol#39;s comments on contraception, and morenbsp;raquo;Washington Post (blog) - Mar 27, 2010
Georgetown#39;s lack of condomsThe Catholic Church teaches that such forms of contraception prevent the creation of life and should not be used. quot;As a Catholic and Jesuit university, Med schools vary on abortion instructionChains Effective for Georgetown Protestorsall 6 news articlesnbsp;raquo;
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