Why do catholics forbid the use of contraception?

Question

is it so that they populate the world with more catholics?

Answer 1

Yup. More Catholics = more tithe money.

Answer 2

Christians have always condemned contraceptive sex. Both forms mentioned in the Bible, coitus interruptus and sterilization, are condemned without exception (Gen. 38:9–10, Deut. 23:1). The early Fathers recognized that the purpose of sexual intercourse in natural law is procreation; contraceptive sex, which deliberately blocks that purpose, is a violation of natural law.

Every church in Christendom condemned contraception until 1930, when, at its decennial Lambeth Conference, Anglicanism gave permission for the use of contraception in a few cases. Soon all Protestant denominations had adopted the secularist position on contraception. Today not one stands with the Catholic Church to maintain the ancient Christian faith on this issue.

How badly things have decayed may be seen by comparing the current state of non-Catholic churches, where most pastors counsel young couples to decide before they are married what form of contraception they will use, with these quotations from the early Church Fathers, who condemned contraception in general as well as particular forms of it, as well as popular contraceptive sex practices that were then common (sterilization, oral contraceptives, coitus interruptus, and orally consummated sex).

Many Protestants, perhaps beginning to see the inevitable connection between contraception and divorce and between contraception and abortion, are now returning to the historic Christian position and rejecting contraceptive sexual practices.

It should be noted that some of the Church Fathers use language that can suggest to modern ears that there is no unitive aspect to marital intercourse and that there is only a procreative aspect. It is unclear whether this is what some of them actually thought or whether they are intending simply to stress that sexual activity becomes immoral if the procreative aspect of a given marital act is deliberately frustrated. However that may be, over the course of time the Church has called greater attention to the unitive aspect of marital intercourse, yet it remains true that the procreative aspect of each particular marital act must not be frustrated

Answer 3

The real reason is very difficult to fathom. It is simply to perpetuate evil, to create turmoil and to maintain power midst chaos.

+++The world of God totally different from the vatican+++

It is universally recognized as an indisputable truth that all mammals naturally interrupt the birth process depending upon their living conditions and ability to support a new young.

If mammals did not act to deliberately disrupt both the conception process as well as the birth process then many animal species would suffer the misery, pain and death associated with overcrowding, disease and potentially extinction in extreme times of famine and drought.

Therefore any policy that advocates abandonment of birth control and pro-choice by women is both insane and goes completely against all known laws of nature.

Nor can such an argument be legitimately claimed as "God's will" when all evidence of all life, including human life up until the last thousand years of Vatican moral domination is to the contrary.

So some other agenda must be a driving force for such evil policies?

+++The real evil agenda of the Vatican+++

The Almanac of Evil gives some clues. It lists 20 centuries of unbroken evil and crimes against humanity by the Popes and the Catholic Church
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/end_of_darkness/evil/evil_0200.htm

Even today, that evil continues in the churches approach to contraception and the spread of AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.

Even today, there remain people quite prepared to excuse, explain away and justify such morally reprehensible policies.

+++WWJD? What would Jesus do? +++

+ Jesus founded the Nazarenes.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/nazarenes/nazarenes_0010.htm

+ Paul of Tarsus founded christianity to counter the message of Jesus and distort its meaning.
http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/founders_christianity/founders_christianity_0010.htm

+ So Jesus would no doubt say that any policy of Paul and the followers of Paul that defies the laws of nature and God are pure evil and should be resisted.

With love in the real Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Contraception for the Vatican is the man-made attempt to inhibit or control God's design.
The rhythm method is still a viable alternative for Catholics to control conception.

(Many Catholics don't prohibit the use of contraceptive. It's the Vatican that does. )

Answer 5

Yes, it's to make more Catholics, but what they will say is that the act of sex is to be done solely for procreation. By this logic, a woman who's had a hysterectomy or is past menopause shouldn't have sex anymore, nor should a man with any kind of fertility problem, right?
And, before someone tries to tell you that life starts at the minute the sperm hits the egg, thus rendering the pill as bad as an abortion, what about barrier methods like condoms or diaphragms which prevent that from ever happening? The pope will tell people with AIDS that they cannot use condoms. This is how ridiculous the prohibition is.

Answer 6

They don't believe in it, it's the simple facts in this. IF you are a strong believer of the Catholic faith, then you must be married before you have sex with a partner. Then in return, there should be no reason to use that type of protection because you would be having sex with only one person, your supposed LIFE PARTNER! But in todays day and age I believe that prospect is slowly down grading and the aspect of sexual interaction before marriage is now widely accepted comaritively to earilier generations.
There are less restrictions on family and moral values now days to hold that true inmost societies. But in a rebuttle to this, there are several religions that have similar believes to this practice. The Catholic aspect is just one of the most widely known. Good Question!

Answer 7

The Catholic Church is not against natural forms of birth control.

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 is against the will of God.

Here is the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's webiste on Natural Family Planning: http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/nfp/

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

No, that is not why, as evidenced by the fact the Catholic Church also forbids IVF. The reason is because she believes that the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act cannot be separated.

Answer 9

YES!

No not really.

It is because to use artificial means of contraception is to deny one of the goods of sex, that of the openess to procreation. (The other good of sex is the union of the spouses). So really Catholics say "no" to contraception in order to say "YES!" (loud and many times) to the goodness of sex as also being a means of co-creating with God!

Answer 10

Catholics do not forbid the use, only the leaders of the Church do. If you do not want to follow the teachings and pay your dues, do not do so. If you are not catholic, why do you care what the church and catholics do do?

Answer 11

It is sad that others do not understand the purpose of sex.

Sex is for procreation AND for bringing the man and woman closer together in marriage. In the act of sex, a man and woman give themselves totally to the other person. The love between the two of them brings forth new life.

When people use contraception, they are not allowing the possiblity of a new life the be created by an act of love and giving. This makes the sex act less of what it should be. it is saying, "i give myself totally to you, but I am not willing to be the father or mother of a child we have created"