Is marital sex sinful if not for the purpose of procreation?

[basehitter320]

Can a Catholic still have sex with their spouse, even if procreation isn’t the intention?

I’m pretty split on this issue. Catholics say that life is the purpose of sex, but I also have heard that sex is the deepest way to express love.

 

[CB_Catholic]

Can a Catholic still have sex with their spouse, even if procreation isn’t the intention?

I’m pretty split on this issue. Catholics say that life is the purpose of sex, but I also have heard that sex is the deepest way to express love.

My husband and I are 63. I also had a hysterectomy years ago. There is no way I am going to procreate now, but there is no reason, barring inability, for us to stop having sex. The Church has made it very clear that sex in marriage is both procreative AND unitive. I actually had a talk with my Pastor on this and other questions about sex once. That is the teaching of the Church, there should be no confusion about it, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

The CCC covers this–look it up.

 

[Trishie]

ARCANUM, Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII
ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE

1. If, then, we consider the end of the divine institution of marriage, we shall see very clearly that God intended it to be a most fruitful source of individual benefit and of public welfare, Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other’s burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.
   http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_10021880_arcanum_en.html

 

[TeenageConvert]

Can a Catholic still have sex with their spouse, even if procreation isn’t the intention?

I’m pretty split on this issue. Catholics say that life is the purpose of sex, but I also have heard that sex is the deepest way to express love.

Sex is the uniting of a man and a woman, and if God wills, the conception of a child. the sex is not sinful as long as you’re not doing something to prevent conception.

 

[cessnawag]

The church promotes natural family planning. It shows you natural ways to have sex on a schedule to have or not to have children.

 

[hammerofjezabel]

Can a Catholic still have sex with their spouse, even if procreation isn’t the intention?

I’m pretty split on this issue. Catholics say that life is the purpose of sex, but I also have heard that sex is the deepest way to express love.

Absolutely! The Church has always proclaimed that the primary ends of marriage is pro-creation.

Meaning that one should always desire children, even if that is not physically possible, when reaffirming the marital vows.

I grew up in the novus ordo religion and was married in the novus ordo church. My wife and I were educated with natural family planning whose PRIMARY ends is NOT procreation.

Thankfully my wife and I ignored this natural form of contraception and 9 kids later are enjoying the graces of a big family.