Does the Catholic church teach that condom use is a mortal sin?

Answer 1

Catholics believe:

Mortal sin is a grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the evil of the act, and full consent of the will.

Venial sin is a sin which does not destroy the divine life in the soul, as does mortal sin, though it diminishes and wounds it. Venial sin is the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent.

The sin you mention is probably not as grave a matter as terrorism or murder.

But continual venial sin can slowly but surely totally separate you from God, placing you into the state of mortal sin.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The Catholic church doesn't believe in birth control. They also believe that having sex outside of marriage is a sin. So if your married and having sex there shouldn't be a problem if a child results because it is a blessing from God. So if you use birth control you are going against God's will which is to procreate and this may be seen as a sin although there wasn't birth control during the time that the bible was written so this is just an interpretation of the Catholic church.

Answer 3

I don't know about mortal, but yes it's a sin. The Catholic church does allow the Billing's method for birth control, but nothing unnatural like condoms.

Answer 4

From what I understand, in the Catholic church, it is a mortal sin to use ANY kind of birth control. It is also a sin to have sex if you aren't trying to have a baby.

I married a Catholic and refused to convert. According to his godparents (that think they are the pope and the pope's wife) our children are bastards because I'm not Catholic. Who'd want to be with so many rules like that?

Answer 5

In France, a Roman Catholic united states, they have been promoting condoms via gadget at close by subway stations, bus stops, and outdoors some shops for no less than 15 years. i do not imagine the Vatican is going to regulate its coverage in this one. yet each and every united states may have the perfect say what's carried out. In Europe, there's a sparkling separation between church and state.

Answer 6

the Church teaches that any artificial means of birth control is a mortal sin because it denies the possibility of life

Answer 7

I don't know about "mortal" sin, however, the catholic church does not condone the use of artificial methods of birth control.

Answer 8

I don't know the degree of sin it is considered by the church (venial or mortal) but WHO CARES? When the Catholic Church offers to pay for me to be a baby factory, my husband and I will stop using birth control!

Answer 9

To use contraception is to usurp God's role as the Lord of Life: the One who decides when new life will be created and when life has ended. Within a Catholic marriage, it's attempt to wrest from God's hands control over when or if a baby will arrive, and it breaks the Catholic wedding vow to accept children from God. Outside wedlock is an attempt to trick God: "I know that sex makes babies, and that's why sexual relations should be limited to a sacramental marriage (which forms a nurturing environment for raising children), but I want what I want, and I want it now, so I'll just take a short cut and apologize for it later."

Either way, it's a control issue. As fallen creates, we want control of our own destinies. We want to plan our lives and decide what happens to us when, to rely on our puny ability to see into the future rather than to give up control and rely on God's Plan, and contraception is part of that. This is not to say that we have no influence over our own fertility. God did not make woman so that she is fertile every day of the month, and in so doing left us with the possibility of influencing the timing of new arrivals. However, influence and control are not the same thing. One cooperates with God but makes our wishes known, which is where Natural Family Planning comes in. The other attempts to grab the steering wheel from the Driver, and drive for ourselves.

Or, in the case of contraception in order not to have children at all, it's an attempt to "have your cake and eat it too": all of the (physical) pleasure without the responsibility that comes with it, which seems a constant theme in our modern society. We just wanna have fun, without all of that stodgy responsibility and discipline stuff. God, however, calls us to be accountable for what we do, and we don't much like that.

The first commandment is usually the most difficult to live out. If I really loved God foremost and above all things, I would ask, "What more can I do in order to align my will with God's, in order to please Him?" rather than asking, "How much can I get away with before I annoy God?" As I said, it's the most difficult to live out, for me as well. I often wrestle with my human desire to get what I want and worry about God later, and I often lose. However, that doesn't make it not a sin.

Answer 10

I don't think the use of a condom is a mortal sin...however...sex outside of marriage is. So you're screwed either way