Contraception Quotes
The way to plan the family is Natural Family Planning, not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self. This turns the attention to self and so destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily."
"I also know that there are great problems in the world - that many spouses do not love each other enough to practice natural family planning. We cannot solve all the problems in the world, but let us never bring in the worst problem of all, and that is to destroy love. And this is what happens when we tell people to practice contraception and abortion."
"I am supposing, then, although you are not lying [with your wife] for the sake of procreating offspring, you are not for the sake of lust obstructing their procreation by an evil prayer or an evil deed. Those who do this, although they are called husband and wife, are not; nor do they retain any reality of marriage, but with a respectable name cover a shame. Sometimes this lustful cruelty, or cruel lust, comes to this, that they even procure poisons of sterility [oral contraceptives] . . . Assuredly if both husband and wife are like this, they are not married, and if they were like this from the beginning, they come together not joined in matrimony, but in seduction."
"No Christian married couple can want to block the well-springs of life. For their love is based on the love of Christ, which entails dedication and sacrifice. . . Moreover, as Tobias reminded Sara, a husband and wife know that 'we are children of saints, and we cannot come together in the way of the gentiles, who do not know God.'"
"In the conjugal act it is not licitly to separate the unitive aspect from the procreative aspect, because both the one and the other pertain to the intimate truth of the conjugal act. The one is activated together with the other and in a certain sense the one by means of the other. This is what the encyclical teaches (cf. Humanae Vitae, 12). Therefore, in such a case the conjugal act, deprived of its interior truth because it is artificially deprived of its procreative capacity, ceases also to be an act of love.
"The Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception, that is, of every marital act intentionally rendered unfruitful. This teaching is to be held as definitive and irreformable. Contraception is gravely opposed to marital chastity; it is contrary to the good of the transmission of life (the procreative aspect of matrimony) and to the reciprocal self-giving of the spouses (the unitive aspect of matrimony); it harms true love and denies the sovereign role of God in the transmission of life (n. 24)."
~ from the Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family, Vade Mecum for Confessors Concerning Some Aspects of the Morality of Conjugal Life
“The heart has become a battlefield between love and lust. The more lust dominates the heart, the less the heart experiences the nuptial meaning of the body. It becomes less sensitive to the gift of the person, which expresses that meaning in the mutual relations of the man and woman.”
~ Pope John Paul II, (General audience, July 23, 1980)
"The sinfulness of artificial birth control is rooted in the arrogation of the right to separate the actualized love union in marriage from a possible conception, to sever the wonderful, deeply mysterious connection instituted by God. This mystery is approached in an irreverent attitude. Here we are confronted with the fundamental sin of irreverence toward God, the denial of our creaturehood, the acting as if we were our own lords… It is the same sinfulness that lies in suicide or in euthanasia, in both of which we act as if we were masters of life.
~ Dietrich von Hildrebrand (Love, Marriage and the Catholic Conscience, pp. 45-46)
For further information on this topic, see:
"Contraception: Why Not" Transcript by Dr. Janet Smith, Free CD available here..
Free Downloads on the topic of contraception Dr. Janet Smith available from One More Soul
Contraception:Fatal to the Faith and to Eternal Life by John A. Hardon, S.J.
First Things: Contraception: A Symposium
HUMANAE VITAE (On The Regulation Of Birth)
Pope Paul VI
Books:
Sex and the Sacred City by Steve Kellmeyer
Christopher West's Books on Amazon
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Theology of the Body - Christopher West - VHS, CD, or DVD
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Wow. Thanks for the links Jean. Lots of good stuff here.
ReplyDeleteMother Teresa probably waisted her breath in front of Bill and Hillary Clinton. They need abortion to fund all their "other" activities.
ReplyDeletewell even if they don't take heed of her words they still have heard some truth. Maybe they may think sometime about these words of Mother Teresa.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Mother Teresa said this not only in front of the Clinton's but shared this message with those young graduates in the audience when she was accepting her Nobel Peace Prize and also with the world, which was her main reason for accepting it.
ReplyDeleteExcellent post, Jean!