1791 This ignorance can often be imputed to personal responsibility. This is the case when a man "takes little trouble to find out what is true and good, or when conscience is by degrees almost blinded through the habit of committing sin."59 In such cases, the person is culpable for the evil he commits.
How is it contraception? Contraception is intrinsically evil.
Correct, I should have stated that after “Catholic contraception” but that is where the water is so murky for so many.
I am not sure I understand how it is contraception?
No, NFP is not contraception. With NFP the marital act is not altered in any way. Contraception alters the act. It separates the two aspects that must not be separated.
So then tell me how NFP fits into this definition? If it does not then we can agree that it is not contraception.
Sorry, but I refuse to accept your choice of words. Contraception is a grave sin. It is always wrong. It is not mere wordplay.
If a couple is abstaining from marital acts on fertile days in favor of infertile ones then isn’t that a deliberate prevention of impregnation?
That is abstaining, not contracepting.
No, because no act is engaged in.
In this case, they mean the same thing according to the dictionary definition of contraception.That is abstaining, not contracepting.
Really …contraception; defn: –noun, the deliberate prevention of conception or impregnation by any of various drugs, techniques, or devices;
I will be so bold as to guess what God would do. I think for the unrepentant, he would show them what their life would have been like if they didn’t use ABC and then ask them “Why didn’t you trust me?” Even so, I don’t even know if he would cast them out. There are SO many reasons why people don’t trust God. It may have been the religious parent who was abusive, it may have been the betrayal of the religious. Only God knows why someone doesn’t trust Him.
True. But, part of me cannot get beyond the sense of entitlement, self-indulgent attitudes that I have encountered amongst my many fellow Catholics. Trust implies knowing the person of God through the extension and gift of faith; through a life of lived faith experience; of dying to self and entering the desert of self-deprivation in order to experience the resurrection and bountiful blessings of God …yes, pray for these self or otherwise deceived and short changed folks.
Yes, but you would have to remember not to be like the older brother in he Prodigal Son parable. I think that if people knew what they were doing they would weep and I think that God is so merciful enough that he can forgive ignorance. He forgave the people that killed him, I doubt he will cast into hell people who were victims to a sick culture. Like I say, It is my hope that he won’t.
There is always the temptation to look with preumption at the other family members who have strayed from the estate …but, still …
