Question about the catholic church and birth control?

Question

Are the catholic church against birth control because they want catholics to have more babies which means more catholics?

Answer 1

Your synopsis is 100% correct. Our people will multiply like rabbits if it is not put in check. I just pray the nuns will decide to conceive. That will mean more bucks for the pope. More bang for the buck, so to speak.

With love in Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

No. The Church does not oppose all birth control, only those that separate the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act. The Church also opposes in vitro fertilization for the same reason, proving this isn't about "more babies." There is no teaching on the use of contraception outside of marriage.

Answer 3

Catholics view marriage as a sacrament. Married love is a sacramental sign of God's love for His people-as both testaments of the Bible testify-then the act itself must accurately reflect that love. It must be faithful, monogamous, indissoluble, and fruitful.

I recall learning in a class in college this: until 1930, Christian churches-WITHOUT EXCEPTION-condemned contraception in the strongest terms. Protestants, went so far as to call it "murder." The anti-contraception laws-which were on the books in many states until the 1960s-were largely the work of evangelical Protestant legislators.

Contraception has been called "a lie in the language of love:" Sex, according to Catholic faith, should be an oath in action, a complete gift of self, an embrace in which a man and a woman hold nothing back from one another. It is a gift of an entire life, and so it belongs only in a lifelong, exclusive marriage. It is a covenant exchange, an exchange of persons: "I am yours, and you are mine." Marriage is what makes sex sacramental and covenental.

The total gift of self rules out the possibility of divorce, adultery, premarital sex-and contraception. For contracepting couples do hold something back, and it's perhaps the single greatest power two human beings can possess: their fertility, the ability to co-create with God a new life, body and soul, destined for eternity.

The sexual act says in its ecstasy: "I give you everything." But contraception renders that communication untrue.

Again Catholics see sex is a sign, a sacramental sign. Sex is, in the traditional lingo, "the marital act," the act that consummates the sacrament of marriage. And a sacrament is a channel of divine grace, which is the very life of God. So when we mess with the "sign" of sex, we're not just changing the way we talk about love; we're ceasing to love.

And the fruits of this sacrament, this convenant with have with God is children. What a beautiful blessing they are! And what a beautiful sign that is.

Answer 4

No.
" Few realize that up until 1930, all Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Church’s teaching condemning contraception as sinful. At its 1930 Lambeth Conference, the Anglican church, swayed by growing social pressure, announced that contraception would be allowed in some circumstances. Soon the Anglican church completely caved in, allowing contraception across the board. Since then, all other Protestant denominations have followed suit. Today, the Catholic Church alone proclaims the historic Christian position on contraception.

The apostolic tradition’s condemnation of contraception is so great that it was followed by Protestants until 1930 and was upheld by all key Protestant Reformers. Martin Luther said, "[T]he exceedingly foul deed of Onan, the basest of wretches . . . is a most disgraceful sin. It is far more atrocious than incest and adultery. We call it unchastity, yes, a sodomitic sin. For Onan goes in to her; that is, he lies with her and copulates, and when it comes to the point of insemination, spills the semen, lest the woman conceive. Surely at such a time the order of nature established by God in procreation should be followed. Accordingly, it was a most disgraceful crime. . . . Consequently, he deserved to be killed by God. He committed an evil deed. Therefore, God punished him."

John Calvin said, "The voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring."

John Wesley warned, "Those sins that dishonor the body are very displeasing to God, and the evidence of vile affections. Observe, the thing which he [Onan] did displeased the Lord—and it is to be feared; thousands, especially of single persons, by this very thing, still displease the Lord, and destroy their own souls." (These passages are quoted in Charles D. Provan, The Bible and Birth Control, which contains many quotes by historic Protestant figures who recognize contraception’s evils.)

http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp

Answer 5

It is still discouraged for use as birth control, it is however condoned for avoidance of STDs. Last time I checked, it will work for both at the same time.

Answer 6

The pope back in the 60's declared it because of the whole 'free love' thing, they thought it underminded the church, tradition, family, and all that.

Answer 7

yep you aren't suppose to use birth control now hand that church over a few bucks cause that's all they want from you when you go

Answer 8

No.

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

that has changed