In a pro NML essay from:
http://www.national-coalition.org/marriage/contrace.html
"Father," the lady said, "last Friday when I went to pick up Maureen
from Holy Angels, a couple of the mothers were openly discussing what
birth control methods to use. These were Catholic women who attend
Sunday Mass and send their children to Catholic schools. It happens all
the time."
Perhaps it does happen all the time. According to the Gallup Poll, the
majority of Catholics disregard the Church's traditional teaching
against contraception. On September 11, 1968, less than six weeks after
Pope Paul VI had issued his encyclical Humanae vitae , the poll asked
those who heard or read about Pope Paul's statement, "Do you favor or
oppose his position on this matter?" Fifty-four percent of the Catholics
surveyed said they opposed the Pope's position. Moreover, 65 percent of
the Catholics who were asked "Do you think it is possible to practice
artificial methods of birth control and still be a good Catholic" said yes.
In another poll taken on August 11, 1993, 82 percent of Catholics said
one can use artificial birth control "and still be a good Catholic." The
statement that these dissenters opposed is this: "The Church,
nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the Natural Law, which
it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches as absolutely required
that in any use whatever of marriage there must be no impairment of its
natural capacity to procreate human life."
So much for the way you ask the question.
"I'm also wondering, if it is true in the above article that "...the
conjugul act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of
children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural
power and purpose sin against nature and commit a deed which is
shamefull and intrinsically vicious" how is some "natural" method any
better than an artificial one being as it is every bit as deliberate?
Doug
Who believes anyone spewing this kind of crap is the real sinner.
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