In Ireland, doctors played an important role in reinforcing Catholic Church teachings and helping to implement the ban on contraception in Mobilising the press in order to disseminate information, they helped to influence policymakers, but also helped to communicate new knowledge to their patients in private settings.
Contributions to this special issue enrich the understanding of contraceptive expertise and activism by showing examples of more nuanced, entangled forms of involvement in which expertise and activism merge in different political contexts. In the Polish case, the SCM was supported by the communist authorities and served their aims, but at the same time also developed the important, and in many ways radical and pioneering, task of mainstreaming contraceptive advice in a largely Catholic country.
We see this special issue as an important intervention for three reasons. Second, we hope that this special issue will be a springboard for future studies of family planning in predominantly Catholic countries from a perspective that pays attention to cross-border flows of knowledge, ideas and practices, as all of the articles in this special issue do. Finally, it is crucial that we as historians do not look at our individual countries in a vacuum. A transnational approach may help us to fully uncover the commonalities of individual experiences and activist practices across the world.
Barona Josep L. Tentler Leslie W. Harris Alana ed. For example, Ellen Chesler. Volume 4. Matthew J. For example, Amy E. Schweppe, ed. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U.
Not much experience is needed in order to know human weakness, and to understand that men—especially the young, who are so vulnerable on this point—have need of encouragement to be faithful to the moral law, so that they must not be offered some easy means of eluding its observance. No one can doubt the fulfillment of these prophetic words. Indeed, recent studies reveal a far greater divorce rate in marriages in which contraception is regularly practiced than in those marriages where it is not.
Experience, natural law, Scripture, Tradition, and the magisterium, all testify to the moral evil of contraception. Brom, Bishop of San Diego, August 10, Skip to main content Accessibility feedback tract. Download Share. Scripture Is contraception a modern invention? Apostolic Tradition The biblical teaching that birth control is wrong is found even more explicitly among the Church Fathers, who recognized the biblical and natural law principles underlying the condemnation. The Magisterium The Church also, fulfilling the role given it by Christ as the identifier and interpreter of apostolic Scripture and apostolic tradition, has constantly condemned contraception as gravely sinful.
Human Experience Pope Paul VI predicted grave consequences that would arise from the widespread and unrestrained use of contraception. Enjoying this content?
The Church teaches that the sexual union of husband and wife is meant to express the full meaning of love, its power to bind a couple together and its openness to new life. A husband and wife express their committed love not only with words, but with the language of their bodies.
So the question about contraception is this: Does sexual intercourse using contraception faithfully affirm this committed love? Or does it introduce a false note into this conversation? Married love differs from any other love in the world. By its nature, the love of husband and wife is so complete, so ordered to a lifetime of communion with God and each other, that it is open to creating a new human being they will love and care for together.
Therefore, the mutual gift of fertility is an integral part of the bonding power of marital intercourse. That power to create a new life with God is at the heart of what spouses share with each other. To be sure, spouses who are not granted the gift of children can have a married life that is filled with love and meaning.
When married couples deliberately act to suppress fertility, however, sexual intercourse is no longer fully marital intercourse. This may seem a hard saying. Certainly it is a teaching that many couples today, through no fault of their own, have not heard or not heard in a way they could appreciate and understand.
But as many couples who have turned away from contraception tell us, living this teaching can contribute to the honesty, openness, and intimacy of marriage and help make couples truly fulfilled. Some argue that if a husband and wife remain open to children throughout their marriage, they need not worry about using contraception occasionally.
But practicing what is good most of the time does not justify doing what is wrong some of the time. By such acts, I begin to make myself into the kind of person who lies.
A couple need not desire or seek to have a child in each and every act of intercourse. And it is not wrong for couples to have intercourse even when they know the wife is naturally infertile, as discussed below.
But they should never act to suppress or curtail the life-giving power given by God that is an integral part of what they pledged to each other in their marriage vows.
This is what the Church means by saying that every act of intercourse must remain open to life and that contraception is objectively immoral. Certainly not. The Church teaches that a couple may generously decide to have a large family, or may for serious reasons choose not to have more children for the time being or even for an indefinite period Humanae Vitae , no. In married life, serious circumstances—financial, physical, psychological, or those involving responsibilities to other family members—may arise to make an increase in family size untimely.
The Church understands this, while encouraging couples to take a generous view of children. This is the principle behind natural family planning NFP. Natural methods of family planning involve fertility education that enables couples to cooperate with the body as God designed it.
Contraception should not be considered part of preventive health care because pregnancy is not a disease. If we want to tackle these problem seriously and with success, we need to address all the factors in the equation. We should not forget that family planning is a fundamental human right that was affirmed in at the Cairo conference, and a cornerstone in the global effort for female equality.
This human right is violated every day in many parts of the world, leading to the suffering of many women and children, and of nature, too. To learn more, you can find some of the best recent writings on religion and population here. It explores the ancient cultural context of the Bible verses quoted by natalists. Challenging the assumption that religion normally promotes fecundity, the book finds surprising exceptions among early Christians with a special focus on Saint Augustine since they advocated spiritual fecundity in preference to biological fecundity.
Noonan Jr. Catholicism and Contraception. ISSN Yale University Press, Example of Russia where Putin is using reactionary religous believes in order to keep his power is showing how science suffers when religion is getting stronger. That this decline is seen as a problem, and not a solution, to the mounting crises facing us, is emblematic of the pronatalism now increasingly promoted by our movers and shakers.
A family member, successful, well educated and very intelligent, is also a devout catholic, who cannot listen to my warnings about the consequences of human population pressure and the likely outcomes.
Thanks for this good article. But the percentage unaffiliated is projected to fall to Therefore it is good that efforts to encourage lower population should engage with religious ideas, many of which are temporary interpretations of Scriptures. So there is hope! These projections are completely false. Those projections are not false at all. India and Pakistan. Religious is not outdated unfortunately. Especially Islam is projected to grow very much, surpassing Christianity in a short time.
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