Why does the catholic church not allow the use of condoms, etc?

Question

Is it so the catholic parents will have more children and the children will grow up to be followers too?

Answer 1

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.

In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church makes it a practice not to tell people how to sin.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Because of the fact that no life can come from it. The first command God give man is go forth and multiply. Well birth control in form would be a sin because it stop the forming of a human life. The only way birth control should be used is if it for medical purposes, that is for women. No for a man the use of a condom stop that forming of a human life. It is a way for a man to have sex without the responsibilty that comes with it. Not only does it stop the responsiblity it also cause a man to look at a woman not as a creation from God that should be respected but it lowers the mans views on a woman and she is nolonger a person but a sexual object that is there for his pleasure. In his eyes she is nothing more than a conquest, and that is wrong. God said that the sttopping of a human life is a sin so if you use artifical contraception of any matter you have sinned and you might as well go right a head and say that homosexuality is ok sodomy is ok, when it is not because no lif e can come from it.And while your at it go ahead and say the abortion is ok as well because a condom has sperm-aside in it which kills the life making substance in the sperm so in a way you are killing what could be a child. Thats it plain and simple.

Answer 3

Let us be honest, part of the reason is to breed more members of the church.

There are several reasons. I must stress that these are the church's reasons, do not jump to the conclusion that I agree with the reasons.

Many very traditional people feel that contraception promotes promiscuity. If one follows the church's teaching of no sex before marriage and monogamy within marriage there is no chance of sexually transmitted diseases and no need to protect oneself and one's spouse from sexually transmitted diseases. Of course, this does not consider AIDS or other diseases contracted through blood transfusions or rape.

The church believes that methods such as the condom and the birth control pill are banned by the Ten Commandments. Church teaching allows the rhythm method, also known as natural family planning or the calendar method. Why this method is allowed and others are not is a bit unclear to me. The church feels that a woman's reproductive cycle is natural and created by God therefore planning intercourse with a woman's cycle in mind is OK. The book of Ecclesiastes says that there is a time to sow and a time to reap.

Answer 4

>>Is it so the catholic parents will have more children and the children will grow up to be followers too?<<

No, that is not why. If it were, the Church would not be opposed to in vitro fertilization, but she is. The Church believes that the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act cannot be separated.

Answer 5

Condoms are a form of birth control and anything that prevents impregnation is not allowed by the catholic church.

Answer 6

No. Your theory assumes the Catholic Church is against all forms of birth control. The Catholic Church is only against artificial contraception.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).

2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:

Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.

Answer 7

No, its because it prevents the birth of children. By the churchs way of thinking, preventing the birth of children is preventing the will of god. If you're meant to have kids, then you will have kids.

Screwed up, isn't it?

Answer 8

Life is all important and condoms prevent the life-giving seed to start life, so this is seen as defying the love and law of God.

Answer 9

No, it is because a husband and a wife should be open to life in order to have a true union.

Peace!

Answer 10

And I quote from the great group... Monty Python..

"Every sperm is sacred...."