2007-03-04 05:05:03 · 14 answers · asked by benignmalaprop 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes but first they must get the absorption thing handled. Anyway there's plenty of girth to go around even with the controls.
2007-03-04 06:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, some pretty good jokes came from that typo; but seriously.
The church CANNOT change it's DOCTRINE on birth control. People like to call it a 'stance' as if it were one of several possible answers. In actually, the Church's doctrine cannot be changed - not even by the pope. This doctrine was inherited from Judaism and was accepted by all christian churches until 1930, when at the Lambeth conference, Anglicanism decided that birth control can be accepted in some circumstances within marriage. Since that disastrous decision, every other protestant denomination has embraced contraception as if it were a blessing from God - when it is actually a scourge on our society which has led to the abortion of millions of innocent unborn children.
2007-03-04 05:25:23 · answer #2 · answered by infinity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church has always been an advocate of girth control, and chides those who do not practice it. Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins as spelled out by Pope Gregory the Great in his magnum opus "Moralia, sive Expositio in Job" (c. 585 A.D.).
If the OP meant "birth control", the Catholic Church is unlikely to change its teaching on contraception, since Pope Paul VI declared it to be contrary to Natural Law in his encyclical "Humane Vitae" (1968 AD). The sex act must be open to life. This teaching has been periodically reaffirmed since then.
2007-03-04 05:40:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gluttony is one of the Seven Deadly sins. It is extremely doubtful the Church is going to change it's stance on "girth control". I'm going to have to remember that; "girth control". That's great!
Seriously though, when it comes to birth control, the Church absolutely will not change it's stance on ARTIFICIAL birth control. NATURAL family planning is morally acceptable. ARTIFICIAL birth control is not.
I'm curious as to why you think the Church should change it's policy on ARTIFICIAL birth control...
2007-03-05 05:17:38 · answer #4 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Girth control? You mean the size of my waist? I didn't know the Catholic Church was concerned with my weight.
2007-03-04 05:11:21 · answer #5 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, girth control is a terrible sin and they will never change their opinion on it.
Birth control, however, may eventually be accepted. When the population reaches the point where we have to send people into space, the church may realize that we no longer need to 'Go forth and multiply'.
2007-03-04 05:08:15 · answer #6 · answered by Nameless 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I didn't realize the Church cared too much about the girth of a person.
2007-03-04 05:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by Sandy Lou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should have a stricter stance on girth control. Both gluttony and sloth are sins. A good regieme of diet and exercise should be instituted at once.
2007-03-04 05:11:07 · answer #8 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean birth control, I like this quote:
"It is a simple logical truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death-rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation."
2007-03-04 05:16:15 · answer #9 · answered by Om 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they need to, RIGHT NOW. There are more obese Catholics per capita than followers of any other religion.
2007-03-04 05:08:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋