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stanley123:
This is what I don’t see.
The primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.
NFP, when used to prevent or limit the number of children, would be used against this primary purpose.
Is that not the definition of frustrate? to defeat the purpose, is this not the same as to frustrate the purpose. The purpose is to bring children into the world, and this is being defeated by using NFP for the purpose of limiting or preventing children from being born?
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NFP, used with a contraceptive intent for selfish motives, is just what you say it is, and participates in the nature of sin.

However, even when used with imperfect motive, there is a not-so-subtle difference between abstaining from the pleasure of sex and enyoing that pleasure while CONTRA-vening its main purpose.
 
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stanley123:
This is what I don’t see.
The primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.
NFP, when used to prevent or limit the number of children, would be used against this primary purpose.
Is that not the definition of frustrate? to defeat the purpose, is this not the same as to frustrate the purpose. The purpose is to bring children into the world, and this is being defeated by using NFP for the purpose of limiting or preventing children from being born?
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You are basically asking the difference between NFP sex and contraceptive sex.

A couple using NFP is not altering the sexual act in any way. The act is still natural and as God intended and it is still open to life. God could will the creation of a new human being from this act. Nothing is standing in His way. In no way is his purpose being defeated, it is only less likely but the decision still rests in the hands of the Creator.

This is unlike contraception which deliberately thwarts God’s will and artificially alters the sexual act. The moral act in contraceptive sex actually has a different object of the act than NFP sex because the circumstance of contraception actually enters into the object itself.

As to your reading of “frustrate,” that is clearly not the meaning being conveyed by Pius XI or else he would not have written what I quoted above.
 
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