Contraception project - your thoughts?

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I for one would love to be able to have as a resouce a compilation of many references throughout the ages of saints and councils (local or general) that have taught against contraception. While looking into coming back into the Church, one of my issues was contraception. I was told that the Church had consistently always taught it was wrong, but when I asked for examples (besides Paul VI) then nobody really had very many.

I am aware of Noonan’s work. But I would prefer to have something more akin to the book Jesus, Peter, and the Keys – a work/list of quotes if you will.

If someone wanted to compile such a listing, where would one want to go to get the quotes?

It seems like an interesting project. Unfortunately, I’m good at thinking things up and lousy on follow-through so probably would not do it myself. But I am curious where I could get at least some such quotes.
 
St. Ambrose:
While looking into coming back into the Church, one of my issues was contraception. I was told that the Church had consistently always taught it was wrong, but when I asked for examples (besides Paul VI) then nobody really had very many.
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I’ll have to look up some sources, but just wanted to make one point initially. Not only has the Catholic Church consistently taught from the beginning that contraception was wrong, but every Protestant denomination consistently taught that it was wrong, from their founding up until about 1930. It was the Anglican church that first broke ranks on this issue, accepting contraception for ‘hard cases’ in the Lambeth Conference of 1930. This was a break with their consistent teaching since their founding. Other Protestant churches soon followed, breaking with their own consistent previous teaching. Did morality change? No, the churches changed their teaching.

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Please don’t take this the wrong way, but did you check the notes to Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae ? I noticed a number of refrences to other encyclicals and documents. I haven’t checked to see if they are all relevant to exactly what you want or not, but it might be a place to start.

Janet Smith has written and spoken widely on the subject. Her book Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader has a number of essays that might have references. Paul Quay’s essay “Contraception and Conjugal Love” in particular has a number of references to works that might help.

That’s all I could find off my shelf.

Good luck.
 
I spoke with Mr. Koob of One More Soul apostolate (they produce Dr. Janet Smith’s tape), about this very idea and he thought it’d make a GREAT brochure.

IDEA: So, why not everyone send Steve Koob all the quotes they can come up with from the early fathers and we’ll just start an ongoing list that One More Soul can publish!!!

Also, check with The Couple to Couple League International at www.ccli.org Click on the “Learn More” line and then go to contraception and then go to Church Fathers. It has some stuff too.

Also, Tim Staples said he was working on something regarding contraception vs. NFP apologetics.

Also, www.orthodoxnfp.org has some interesting stuff, too.

I have read Noonan’s book “Contraception” but I’ve heard about it. Have you read it? If so, how is it?
 
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JimG:
I’ll have to look up some sources, but just wanted to make one point initially. Not only has the Catholic Church consistently taught from the beginning that contraception was wrong, but every Protestant denomination consistently taught that it was wrong, from their founding up until about 1930. It was the Anglican church that first broke ranks on this issue, accepting contraception for ‘hard cases’ in the Lambeth Conference of 1930. This was a break with their consistent teaching since their founding. Other Protestant churches soon followed, breaking with their own consistent previous teaching. Did morality change? No, the churches changed their teaching.

JimG
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Yes, Protestant quotes would be good, too.
 
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Please don’t take this the wrong way, but did you check the notes to Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae ? I noticed a number of refrences to other encyclicals and documents. I haven’t checked to see if they are all relevant to exactly what you want or not, but it might be a place to start.

Janet Smith has written and spoken widely on the subject. Her book Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader has a number of essays that might have references. Paul Quay’s essay “Contraception and Conjugal Love” in particular has a number of references to works that might help.

That’s all I could find off my shelf.

Good luck.
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Thanks! Ref. Humane Vitae - I hadn’t any idea to start there. Thanks!
 
Did anyone mention the Holy Father’s work, Theology of the Body? or Christopher West’s analysis of this incredible teaching?

www.christopherwest.com

It is beautiful! I find it to be a wonderful tool to evangelize the truth of what contraception is and does.
 
When you look into the formulation of P6’s writings, you may find that there was not a unanimous assent to what he finally wrote.

While much of contraception was built upon the spilling of seed concept, it has become clear that such reliance is not good science because it is in fact untruthfull. Also in the meantime, the church has given tacit approval to NFP, which by intent and reality is contraceptive in nature by mimicing the same method used by other forms of contraceptives, which is to prevent the meeting of sperm and egg.

If you are going to compile info , you might as well get both sides under the same cover.

Peace
 
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