Catholic marriage...STD?

  • Thread starter Thread starter LB5
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Something has been bothering me about this thread since I first read it a while back. I don’t have time to sort through all the responses, but back there somewhere a few people were claiming that there is nothing new in the prevalence of pre-marital sex, that it has always been the same, etc. This is a lie that is promulgated to make people feel better about breaking the rules of the Church and natural law. So I dug up some statistics:
  1. In the 1960s, 25 percent of young men and 45 percent of young women were virgins at age 19;
    by the 1980s, fewer than 20 percent of males and females were.
  2. In the 1950s, roughly 9 in 10 young women got married without living with their partner,
    compared with 1 in 3 in the early 1990s.
  3. The percentage of white women married from 1960-65 who were virgins was 43; from 1980-85
    it was 14.
This is from a Janet Smith talk which can be viewed at:
archdioceseofdetroit.org/aodonline-sqlimages/shms/faculty/SmithJanet/Publications/HumanaeVitae/PremaritalSex.pdf

Father Benedict on EWTN’s Sunday Night Live has also talked about how in the fifties most of the couples marrying in the Catholic Church were virgins and the changes he has seen through hearing confessions.

I think the important thing to realize is although it is true that throughout the history of time, of course some people have misused sex. But in the past it was more clear to the youth that there were absolute rules that were being broken. Now many youth feel like they are being weird if they do try to respect their bodies and respect marriage. Things have changed, and we do youth a disservice if we don’t acknowledge that.
 
She can have a healthy marriage, he knows she has the virus and that me may contract it.

Without getting graphic, when women have outbreaks of the herpes virus, the legions can and do appear both internally AND externally. They break out on areas of the body that will come in contact with parts of her husbands body that would not be covered by a condom.
 
Nordar said:
Stop with the persecution complex that I was judging you, I was and I am telling you that receiving The Eucharist when you are still having PMS is a sacrilege.
Click to expand...
It would mean a lot to those of us who attend Mass week after week but can’t receive Eucharist if more people followed the rules laid out in the Bible about this. In our parish, very few people stay in the pews during the Eucharist. I take my daughter every week to fulfill her Sunday obligation, but I can’t receive the Eucharist because I am waiting for an annulment. When there is even one person sitting down near me during the Eucharist, it makes me feel less alone and out of place.
 
AnotherChance said:
It would mean a lot to those of us who attend Mass week after week but can’t receive Eucharist if more people followed the rules laid out in the Bible about this. In our parish, very few people stay in the pews during the Eucharist. I take my daughter every week to fulfill her Sunday obligation, but I can’t receive the Eucharist because I am waiting for an annulment. When there is even one person sitting down near me during the Eucharist, it makes me feel less alone and out of place.
Click to expand...
Agreed, but as you can see from this thread that telling someone what the Church teaches you are accused of being Judgemental and harsh.
Some would rather just stick their heads in the sand and ignore the teachings.
Why can’t you recieve if you are waiting on an annulment? Are you married again?
 
Nordar said:
Agreed, but as you can see from this thread that telling someone what the Church teaches you are accused of being Judgemental and harsh.
Some would rather just stick their heads in the sand and ignore the teachings.
Why can’t you recieve if you are waiting on an annulment? Are you married again?
Click to expand...
I really think this got blown out of control, I don’t think its what the Church teaches that the poor girl is complaining about its how she has been looked upon. It wasnt’t what the Church teaches its the way she was being taught that she is complaining about. Some compassion is all she would like. Come on in all honesty who really is worthy of receiving communion today. It could have been said nicely that according to the Church you must go to confession first, and if you cannot quit having PMS you should not go to receive the eucharist. That Im not sure you are aware of that, but just in case you are not that is the rules of the Church. And left it at that.
 
I wish people would spell things out; every time I see “PMS” I am thinking “pre-menstrual syndrome”. (I am assuming it’s supposed to stand for “pre-marital sex.”)
 
jmcrae said:
I wish people would spell things out; every time I see “PMS” I am thinking “pre-menstrual syndrome”. (I am assuming it’s supposed to stand for “pre-marital sex.”)
Click to expand...
LOL, at first I thought it meant Private message although I could not figure out what the S stood for:D
 
jmcrae said:
I wish people would spell things out; every time I see “PMS” I am thinking “pre-menstrual syndrome”. (I am assuming it’s supposed to stand for “pre-marital sex.”)
Click to expand...
Ha Ha So did I at first. Could you imagine, None of us would get communion!
 
Have a question abut this: Could a woamn with herpes give birth to a baby and not give the baby herpes when he/she is coming out of the womb?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top