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If a catholic male is married to a agnostic female who uses contraceptives, what is the moral responsibility or obligation of the husband?
 
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If a catholic male is married to a agnostic female who uses contraceptives, what is the moral responsibility or obligation of the husband?
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Excellent question. Unfortunately I have no answer except to try the ask an apologist forum. God bless you.
 
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If a catholic male is married to a agnostic female who uses contraceptives, what is the moral responsibility or obligation of the husband?
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I would think the Catholic should, from time to time, share the truth with their spouse and pray often. One would not be sinning if they reject contraception, but their spouse refuses to accept the truth.
 
I asked a Priest one time and he said that years ago it was decided that the catholic was not at risk spiritually speaking with a non-catholic spouse and her (i’m assuming “her”) use of birth control… that the Church did not expect the Catholic spouse to not live as “married” people live… you were not committing a sin…

now, i assume (and boy assuming is dangerous) that should she see the light as it were, then the birth control is supposed to go…

hopefully someone in the know on this subject will respond… but i was told the above by a priest with 50+ years in the priesthood… :cool:
 
This question was answered in the Church document Vademecum for Confessors Concerning Some Aspects of the Conjugal Life (part 3 section 13 & 14).

It says that even if one spouse is deliberately contracepting, the other may still have marital relations as long as:
  1. There are serious reasons to materially cooperate.
  2. They are morally sure the contraception won’t cause an aboriton.
  3. The action of the cooperating spouse is not already illicit in itself (in other words, she is not participating in something that perverts the natural physical act of intercourse).
  4. The cooperating spouse makes reasonable efforts to correct the other.
Remember that material cooperation with a contracepting spouse doesn’t mean approving his/her actions or participating in illicit actions.
 
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