Catholics, or anyone with knowledge of the catholic faith?

Question

Is it true that Catholics don't believe in birth control of any kind? If so, do you view this as a sin and why?

Answer 1

It is taught by the Catholic Church that anything that hinders the process of creating life (the boring way of saying having sex) is sinful. In fact, somewhere in the Bible (I don't recall exactly where), it is said that if a man spills his seed on the ground, it is a sin. In other words, if you masturbate, you sin. If you use condoms, birth control, have an abortion, or do anything to intentionally prevent the sperm from fertilizing the egg, you are committing a sin.

Hope that's the answer you're looking for.

Answer 2

I'm quite sure the 40 million abortions since 1973 include Catholics. Any form of birth control is a sin because it intentionally terminates life. That's what the pope says and Catholics are supposed to live by his word.

Answer 3

Catholics use Natural Family Planning which is 90% + effective. They do not use birth control pills or contraptions as many of them abort the baby before it gets a chance to attach to the uterine wall. It is sinful to use these things for birth control. Having said that, many Catholics go behind the clergies back and do this anyway. Bad business. No wonder there is so little respect for the Catholic clergy. The disrespect starts in their very own pews.

Answer 4

You mean rather that Roman Catholics [to distinguish from the Ecumenical "Catholics"] do not accept in principle and practice birth control.

Evil, as St. Thomas says, following the classical definition, is "the privation of a good which is due." A thing is due by what it is: if it has failed to be what it should be, to that extent it is bad.

Now, when is a good due? This can be gleaned from the end of the thing. Example: is the end of a dog to know and love God? Obviously not. So then, is it bad for the dog not to know and love God? No, because it is not something due (but it is bad for a rational creature, whose end is preciely to know and love God).

Therefore, evil in the strict sense consists in not attaining the end: whatever hinders the movement towards the end is evil (whatever takes a man away from God is evil). In other words, evil is a deordination or displacement from the direction towards the end.

This is the reason why all kinds of contraception is and can never be acceptable to Christianity. From the word "contraception" itself, this hinders (from the Latin contra-) the conception of new life ( procreation), the bearing of children which is the DIVINELY APPOINTED end of every sexual activity . And by this same token is every sexual activity that is directed not to its proper end (the begetting of new life), deviates from its natural course (that is, coitus), and falls outside its natural order (that is, outside marriage) is and can never be countenanced by the Christian Church as good but always sinful and therefore always evil .

Answer 5

According to strong strict Catholic law no we do not believe in birth control. the Lord god said go forth and multiply. The church took this to mean that sex was only for one reason and that is to procreate therefor their is no need for birth control. In today's church many believe that it is an acceptable thing and many think that it is wrong. But as far as the church itself yes it is a sin because you are interfering with God divine plan as I stated earlier.

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Answer 6

I think most Catholics today are open to birth control, but it is still the official stand of the roman catholic church to be against it. The last pope actually spoke against it. Not all that strongly, he spoke more strongly against abortion. But he did make at least some token statements.
I don't understand that view.

Answer 7

Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.

Natural methods of birth control are allowed, like:
+ Abstinence
+ Rhythm method
+ Ovulation method
+ Standard Days Method
+ Sympto-thermal method
http://www.epigee.org/guide/natural.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

actually the rythm and withdrawl methods are taught to students in some catholic schools. But at the same schools they also show the students videos of very late stage abortions, worse than any horror movie. This is their idea of real birth control.

Answer 10

Catholic dogma states no contraception. ( from the pope & bishops etc). However a Catholic may have an informed conscience about the matter. Briefly, it means you have thoroughly considered the pros & cons regaurding the practice & have formed a good conscience regaurding the matter. Not widely promulgated however. It works thus: I have five children I can just barely afford, no options open other than total abstinence therefore I consult my priest or spiritual advisor & examine those pros & cons. I decided that birth control was ok for me & mine.