Do Catholics oppose condoms because they believe the C.D.C., W.H.O., etc are lying about their efficacy?

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If not, why?

What incentive to PhD types have to lie about the efficacy of condoms?

What about the philanthropists who study the issue and work to prevent HIV?

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/Speeches/Co-ChairSpeeches/MelindaSpeeches/MFGSpeech2006AIDS-060813.htm

Is Milanda Gates lying too?

Doesn't "natural family planning" also manipulate the outcome of sex to avoid children?

Answer 1

>>Do Catholics oppose condoms because they believe the C.D.C., W.H.O., etc are lying about their efficacy?<<

Some maybe, but not I. I agree that condoms can help prevent the spread of HIV, but not as well as abstinence outside of marriage and faithfulness within.

What is not being made clear in these discussions is that the Catholic Church HAS NO TEACHING ON THE USE OF CONDOMS OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE.

Answer 2

No.

Catholics oppose condoms (and all artificial methods of birth control) for married couples on moral grounds.

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.

If the world is going to ignore teachings about chastity (1 & 2), then why is the world so upset about teaching artificial birth control (3)?

People who are already ignoring the more important teachings about chastity (1 and 2) should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching of artificial birth control (3).

Even if a person infected with AIDS was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.

In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church makes it a practice not to tell people how to sin. Fornication with or without a condom is still fornication. Adultery with or without a condom is still adultery.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

The church can oppose birth control if they want but I know American Catholics for the most part ignore this rule. When I attended Catholic elementary school in the 70's there were a great deal of 7 or more children ,families. When I go to Mass now, I rarely see families with more than 2 kids." Ye shall be fruitful and multiply" might have been cute in biblical times but in a world with limited resources , it now appears to be archaic thinking.

Answer 4

Catholics oppose condoms because they interfere with the process of the seed fertilizing the egg. Natural family planning methods are acceptable because the Bible approves of a married couple abstaining from sexual relations when husband and wife are in agreement with each other.

Answer 5

as far as I know Catholics oppose all birth control. As far as STD's? I can't speak for them. The condoms are considered a form of birth control.

Answer 6

catholics oppose condoms because it prevents the natural outcome of having sex, which would be to create life.

Answer 7

All the baptized are called to chastity. The Christian has "put on Christ," the model for all chastity. All Christ's faithful are called to lead a chaste life in keeping with their particular states of life. At the moment of his Baptism, the Christian is pledged to lead his affective life in chastity.


"People should cultivate [chastity] in the way that is suited to their state of life. Some profess virginity or consecrated celibacy which enables them to give themselves to God alone with an undivided heart in a remarkable manner. Others live in the way prescribed for all by the moral law, whether they are married or single." Married people are called to live conjugal chastity; others practice chastity in continence:


There are three forms of the virtue of chastity: the first is that of spouses, the second that of widows, and the third that of virgins. We do not praise any one of them to the exclusion of the others. . . . This is what makes for the richness of the discipline of the Church.

Those who are engaged to marry are called to live chastity in continence. They should see in this time of testing a discovery of mutual respect, an apprenticeship in fidelity, and the hope of receiving one another from God. They should reserve for marriage the expressions of affection that belong to married love. They will help each other grow in chastity.
Offenses against chastity


Lust is disordered desire for or inordinate enjoyment of sexual pleasure. Sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive purposes.


By masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. "Both the Magisterium of the Church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action." "The deliberate use of the sexual faculty, for whatever reason, outside of marriage is essentially contrary to its purpose." For here sexual pleasure is sought outside of "the sexual relationship which is demanded by the moral order and in which the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love is achieved."

To form an equitable judgment about the subjects' moral responsibility and to guide pastoral action, one must take into account the affective immaturity, force of acquired habit, conditions of anxiety, or other psychological or social factors that can lessen, if not even reduce to a minimum, moral culpability.


Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.

There are other types of unchastity which I did not include anymore. What is important is what St. Paul said, "the body is not for fornication but for the Lord."

Peace and blessings!

Answer 8

I believe they oppose them because they're stopping life from happening. Sex is meant to produce children, nothing else, and by using a condom, you're deviating from that practice; therefore, its wrong.

Answer 9

No, I believe it is because they believe condoms seperate the sexual act from the procreative purpose for which it was intended.

Basically if you're not willing to have someone's child, you shouldn't be having sex with them.

Answer 10

They have never approved any birth control measures. They believe that the children that come will be raised Roman Catholic and that the numbers of people belonging to that church will eventually be the largest in the world. It hasn't worked yet, but they keep hoping.