2007-12-27 09:40:17 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. I don't have flocks of sheep or a big farm where I need lots of kids to keep it all going.
2007-12-27 09:44:59 · answer #1 · answered by Kingpole 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I didn't, but I'm trying to now. It is extremely difficult, but I think it is the right choice. It's as much about natural law as it is about the bible. Actually, all religions taught this until the 1930's. Then some church said that it should be okay for certain circumstances, and it went downhill from there. Isn't that always the way?
Some birth control -> birth control whenever -> the pill -> abortion sometimes -> abortion whenever -> partial birth abortion
Kind of like:
mini skirts -> bikinis -> topless pictures -> full frontal -> soft core -> hard core -> gay porn
It starts out small, but society always heads away from the Church, never towards it.
Busybee, that is absolutely incorrect. It is a sin. The Catholic faith is about absolute truths. You do not get to live by a different set of rules than everybody else just because you don't like the rules. That is a complete misinterpretation about conscience. That is to keep you from doing wrongs that are not specifically laid out in the catechism. Birth control is specifically laid out in the catechism.
2007-12-27 09:48:19 · answer #2 · answered by Brad the Fox 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh, geez, here we go!
I believe strongly in the Church's insistence that life begins at conception. Thus, I would be opposed to birth control methods that destroy fertilized eggs, or cause them to be flushed from the body before implantation.
However, I have a hard time being against birth control methods that keep sperm and egg apart. These include condoms, birth control pills, vasectomies, tubal ligations and diaphragms.
The issue to contend with is one of "natural law." If sex is intended for the creation of new life (and no other purpose) then it does not matter which BC method you choose -- they all violate natural law, and are therefore immoral. But if sex has other purposes -- bonding of married partners, etc -- then there is wiggle room. And if unbridled sex has dangers -- e.g., overpopulation, damage to a woman's health, damage to a parent's mental/emotional wellbeing -- then we have moved into the realm of damaging life -- something the Church ought to oppose.
Conservative Catholics will tell you that when you have a child, it is because God wants you to have one. Hence, there ought to be no artificial barriers to having children. Anyone Catholic couple with fewer than 10 kids ought to be looked at with a skeptical eye. More liberal Catholics like myself see ourselves as cooperating with God in the act of creating new life, regardless of the number of offspring we produce. My position (which is admittedly at variance with that of the Church) is that parents need the freedom to choose when to bring children into the world.
There are some conflicting goals here. Examine your heart, and do your best to achieve them as your conscience dictates.
2007-12-27 09:56:30 · answer #3 · answered by Jeanster 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most married Catholics of child-bearing age do not follow the church on the issue of birth control -- at least, not in the USA!
2007-12-27 09:45:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, of course I do.
For one thing, it's healthier than artificial birth control. For another, I've learned that my body is 'fearfully and wonderfully made" and I can appreciate God's design.
I have been *happily* married 13.5 years (yes, *happily* including what you think of as making a marriage happy) and I have 3 kids, ages 8, 5 and 3. I would love to have another, but I have a serious health condition that makes it impossible right now, so I simply read my body's signs of ovulation and we make our choices accordingly.
2007-12-27 10:15:15 · answer #5 · answered by sparki777 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, I follow my conscience. Birth control is not a matter of dogma and therefore catholics can chose to oppose the churches official stance, as long as the decision is based on research, understanding and prayer...in other words the Catholic Church recognizes the right to follow one's properly formed Moral Conscience
if you want more info on this http://www.cogforlife.org/vaxexempt.htm
and
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a6.htm
2007-12-27 09:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by busybee2 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hm, judging from birth control sales in the US and Europe, it looks like most Christians don't believe the Pope on that one.
2007-12-27 09:45:44 · answer #7 · answered by Dirk D 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If they don't, then they are not Catholics.
2007-12-27 09:48:35 · answer #8 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋