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malene
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hi im a danish girl doing an assignment on womens rights in ireland and I need to know how the catholic church looks upon contraception/birth cotrol…? and sex before marriage…? hope someone can help me 
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darthsmozers
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If you have the time to read, you could look a the book titled “Good News About Sex & Marriage” by Christopher West. This book is an amazing, easy-to-read book concerning Pope John Paul II’s teachings called “Theology of the Body”. A great starting point for anyone!hi im a danish girl doing an assignment on womens rights in ireland and I need to know how the catholic church looks upon contraception/birth cotrol…? and sex before marriage…? hope someone can help me
Some quick reads online:
Birth Control article on Catholic.com
Some questions & answers regarding chastity.
Feel free to post back if more assistance is needed
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AliciaCL
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malene, just a thought for your research. The issue of womens “rights” in the Catholic church or any church for that matter, is absolutely different from civil rights. Pro-abortion advocates purposely confuse the two. In a Catholic setting church members all enjoy the same opportunity to participate. One exception is women cannot be ordained priests. The church has cited its theological and biblical reasoning for that decision.
On the birth control issue, the “rights” controversy surrounds the point that a woman should be able to be in control of her body, etc. The church generally does not interfere with medical decisions but it defends the right to life of an unborn child. The church believes human life begins at conception. It’s live cells, a being. It’s got human DNA. It’s a human being! I would guess that if science made it possible to transplant a fetus, there wouldn’t be as much of a problem. The pregnant women would be unpregnant and life would be preserved.
On the birth control issue, the “rights” controversy surrounds the point that a woman should be able to be in control of her body, etc. The church generally does not interfere with medical decisions but it defends the right to life of an unborn child. The church believes human life begins at conception. It’s live cells, a being. It’s got human DNA. It’s a human being! I would guess that if science made it possible to transplant a fetus, there wouldn’t be as much of a problem. The pregnant women would be unpregnant and life would be preserved.
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Nickkname
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From the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the teachings of the Church:hi im a danish girl doing an assignment on womens rights in ireland and I need to know how the catholic church looks upon contraception/birth cotrol…? and sex before marriage…? hope someone can help me
Contraception
2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.157 These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” is intrinsically evil:158
Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality… the difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.159
2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).
Sex Before Marriage
2353 Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young.
2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices.
Sources:
2370: vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P86.HTM#VQ
2399: vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P88.HTM#56
2353: vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P85.HTM
2396: vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P88.HTM
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malene
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thanks for the great answers you’ve helped me a lot… 
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PatienceAndLove
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There was an interesting interview on NPR with a former Irish Catholic.
She blamed the overpopulation and poverty of Ireland on the Church’s teachings on contraception. I thought she was crazy.
She blamed the overpopulation and poverty of Ireland on the Church’s teachings on contraception. I thought she was crazy.
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Nickkname
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You are welcomethanks for the great answers you’ve helped me a lot…
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Seminarian_Matt
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The Catholic Church is completely opposed to sex outside of marriage - fornication - as well as artificial contraception.
Helpful Links:
Humane Vitae
My Article on Artificial Contraception
Helpful Links:
Humane Vitae
My Article on Artificial Contraception
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malene
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thanks agian for the answers…now I have finished my assignement witch was a part of my eksamination(is it called that?) and I got 12 (that is the same as an A+) some of it thanks to you guys… :tiphat:
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