Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion?

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“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”

I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.

Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere. :confused:
 
blessedtoo said:
If you want to know what our Church teaches on these and all the other moral issues, you need to pick up a Catechism of the Catholic Church. All your questions will be answered.
amazon.com/Catechism-Catholic-Church-U-S/dp/0385479670
And yes: Abortion and contraception are completely opposed to Catholic teaching.
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Correct, but 99% of Catholics will never pick up a catechism. So would THEY know about the Church’s teachings on contraception and abortion if all they did is attend Sunday Mass?
 
If you’re searching for answers as to why the Catholic Church teaches abortion and contraception are grave evils here are some good starts:

Abortion

Birth Control

Hope this helps! And yes, the Catechism of the Catholic Church is a fundamental resource of Church teaching. A worthy investment!

God bless.
 
lepanto said:
“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”

I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.

Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere. :confused:
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I guess become I’ve only been exposed to VERY devout/conservative/traditional parishes my whole life, I am FLOORED by Catholics that are on these boards describing OBVIOUS liturgical abuses, and such things as never hearing a homily detailing the travesty of legalized abortion!

The craziest thing I’ll hear one of our parish priests say is “dear sisters and brothers in Christ”, instead of “brothers and sisters”…seriously, where are these off-the-wall, “liberal” diocese and parishes? California? The Pacific Northwest? In the Northeast United States?
 
lepanto said:
Correct, but 99% of Catholics will never pick up a catechism. So would THEY know about the Church’s teachings on contraception and abortion if all they did is attend Sunday Mass?
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That is quite the exaggeration: 99%! It is the responsibility of each Catholic to know what the Church teaches, regardless of whether the priest speaks about it during the homilies. In addition, with the internet, most Dioceses have websites with Bishop’s documents that talk about all these issues. Apologetics information is available on Amazon and all the Catholic websites. Churches have pamphlets and booklets in their vestibules that cover the whole range of moral issues. There is simply no excuse for a Catholic to be ignorant of these two issues.
 
Joseph_Mary said:
…seriously, where are these off-the-wall, “liberal” diocese and parishes? California? The Pacific Northwest? In the Northeast United States?
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Pacific Northwest here! Priests speaking on abortion? Never. Contraception?:rotfl: Liturgical innovation? We’ve got it!
 
So would THEY know about the Church’s teachings on contraception and abortion if all they did is attend Sunday Mass?
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BTW: I was out of the Church for 27 years and I always knew the Church teaching on contraception and abortion.
 
Anyone who would call themselves Catholic without making, at some point, the effort to find out what the Church teaches on such issues probably isn’t worthy of the name.

And there are plenty of non-Catholics even who correctly know what the Church teaching is on these matters, so I find it hard to believe that a majority of Catholics don’t.
 
Correct, but 99% of Catholics will never pick up a catechism. So would THEY know about the Church’s teachings on contraception and abortion if all they did is attend Sunday Mass?
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These are probably the same people who pick up a bulletin to read during the homily or slip out to the bathroom. So even if every Sunday the priest would lecture on abortion, it might never get in.
It is the responsibility of each Catholic to know what the Church teaches, regardless of whether the priest speaks about it during the homilies.
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:clapping: :clapping:
It is not the job of the priest to take each one of us and make sure every single parishoner knows and understands every single aspect of the faith. When we have questions, the priest is supposed to have answers. But when we get to be big tall grown up boys and girls we have to start doing our homework and if we just depend on getting all the information in lecture, we’re not going to do very well on the test! (Guess who’s currently going thru midterms! 🤓 )

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Hi, the catholic church do not believe in abortion, cause no man has a right to take another live. GOD gives life.Contr
eception is also a meens of preventing life. U decide when it is comforturble to have a child not GOD. Preventing or taking life is a great sin.
 
lepanto said:
“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”

I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.

Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere. :confused:
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So what was your pastor’s response when you met with him to ask him if he would include these teachings in his homily? I mean, you did meet with him to express your concerns before you came on a forum to complain, right?

Peace

Tim
 
Joseph_Mary said:
The craziest thing I’ll hear one of our parish priests say is “dear sisters and brothers in Christ”, instead of “brothers and sisters”…seriously, where are these off-the-wall, “liberal” diocese and parishes? California? The Pacific Northwest? In the Northeast United States?
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They’re in Baltimore.

I RARELY (about once every 5 years) hear a priest say that abortion is wrong from the pulpit. They’ll say it in the bulletin, though, and I do see lots of parishes doing great pro-life work.

I’ve NEVER heard a priest even mention contraception from the pulpit, let alone condemn it.

As for liturgical innovation? All the time, in EVERY parish, even the “relatively good” ones.
 
lepanto said:
“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”

I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.

Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere. :confused:
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Your PARENTS were the ones responsible for teaching you as you grew up-- parents are the primary educators of their children in the faith.

If they did not teach you the doctrines of the church, now that you are an adult it is YOUR responsibility to do so.

Priests homilies should expand on the readings for that day and explain them.

I have heard both topics brought in to homilies at various times, I am sorry you have not. Abortion and prayers to end it are also frequently in the Prayers of the Faithful so it’s hard to believe that there has never been any mention of abortion in any church you’ve attended.
 
lepanto said:
“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”

I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.

Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere. :confused:
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so we attended two different types of parishes. I heard it in high school, I heard it during marriage prep, I heard it from the pulpit from the time humanae vitae was published, in spades, at least several times a year for the last 40 years. I read about it in the many find Catholic family magazines and newspapers we have received over the years, in more depth. You also have to account for the Catholic habit of tuning out any homilies that challenge, offend or contradict personal beliefs and habits. All Catholic parishes are not like the one you or I attend.

By the way, parents are the primary educators of their children in the faith, and particularly in morality and practice related sex, marriage and family, and the home is the proper forum for this type of teaching. We don’t do sex ed from the pulpit.

In my day (young married at the time ABC was first becoming available and the furor over HV was in full force and this was the single most challenging issue facing Catholics as we saw it) parish shopping and confessional shopping was common and many of us sought out parishes where we would hear a message comfortable to us and deliberately tried to avoid hearing the truth.
 
lepanto said:
“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”

I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.

Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere. :confused:
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I am sorry your clergy are not talking about these things. I get to hear it at least once a week. Start listening to EWTN,and you will get some really good Catholic teaching! I also recommend the catechism, but I like to use the online searchable version better than the book. What you are experiencing is a lack of proper catachetical formation (basic teaching in the faith) that is rampant, and is the cause of so many Catholics migrating to Protestant churches because they are “not getting fed”.
christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/matri.html#GOODS
 
Orogeny said:
So what was your pastor’s response when you met with him to ask him if he would include these teachings in his homily? I mean, you did meet with him to express your concerns before you came on a forum to complain, right?

Peace

Tim
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lol. i was gonna give a similar response.

you can talk to your priest after mass about these questions.
 
lepanto said:
Correct, but 99% of Catholics will never pick up a catechism. So would THEY know about the Church’s teachings on contraception and abortion if all they did is attend Sunday Mass?
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I hope it is not that high, but it is way too high. The problem is that many Catholics seem to think that all they need to do is attend Mass (though many don’t even do that!) and that learning is done after catechism and confirmation. I am glad you haven;t fallen for it!
 
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I heard it in high school, I heard it during marriage prep, I heard it from the pulpit from the time humanae vitae was published, in spades, at least several times a year for the last 40 years.
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I have heard it rarely in the last 40 years. Even when I was younger and went to a “Latin Mass” I don’t remember hearing it.They have gotten better in recent years but twice a year on abortion is not much. Once about five years ago at mass, I heard a priest give a beautiful homily on contraception. at Saint Leo the Great in RI. I believe the priest was Fr. Fitzpatrick or Fr. Fitzgerald?
He talked about women and caring for the women. I wish I had a copy
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“Is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception and abortion???”
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I’ve faithfully attended Sunday Mass all my life. Yet based on that alone, I would honestly not know what, if anything, the Church’s positions on contraception and abortion are because they are NEVER even mentioned during the homilies.
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Seriously, the only reason I know what the Church’s positions are is due to my reading about them in the secular media and elsewhere.
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I don’t think this is an overstatement. Aside from this, the issue for me has been they had not been out there at the clinics. They have not gone to local Pro-life events. When people tried to put things out there, they were against them doing such. I really feel the church has not done enough. I know they are overwhelmed and work really hard but was it too much to ask them to attend.
 
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