Lambeth, 90 Years Later

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While this choice was destructive and harmful, it at least provided an opportunity for the infallible voice of the Church to shine through strong, and unshaken. As the article alludes to, Pius XI responded with this definitive judgment on this point of morality.

Pius XI, Casti Connubii
  1. Since, therefore, openly departing from the uninterrupted Christian tradition some recently have judged it possible solemnly to declare another doctrine regarding this question, the Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being defiled by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of her divine ambassadorship and through Our mouth proclaims anew: any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.
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(I find it interesting that he didn’t name names or point fingers and let the Church’s judgment stand alone–but everyone would have known what was being spoken about).
 
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It’s interesting to note that until 1930, every Christian denomination, all the sects founded by the reformers, all held the same doctrine against contraception as did the Catholic Church. Lambeth 1930 may have thought it was just opening a small exception, but in reality it opened the floodgates.
 
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