Magisterial authority of contraception teachings?

[fakename]

i was wondering, is the fact that contraception is wrong an infallible or non-fallible one? In general, are all such sexual morality teachings infallible or non-infallible?

Again, thanks.

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

i was wondering, is the fact that contraception is wrong an infallible or non-fallible one? In general, are all such sexual morality teachings infallible or non-infallible?

Again, thanks.

As far as I can remember, within the last 150 years, there were 3 dogmas: the Immaculate Conception, the Infallibility of the Pope and the Assumption of Mary.

 

[Dorothy]

And, it is my understanding, that the moral teachings of the ordinary Magisterium is for us to follow for our own good. They don’t have to be proclaimed “ex cathedra”.

 

[Credo_in_Deum]

ewtn.com/library/christ/confatal.txt

 

[Corki]

i was wondering, is the fact that contraception is wrong an infallible or non-fallible one? In general, are all such sexual morality teachings infallible or non-infallible?

Again, thanks.

It is an authoritative doctrinal teaching. Doctrines can be matters of faith or morals. Dogmas are matters of faith as have been all the ex-cathedra statements. The teaching on contraception is part of the infallibile teaching of the ordinary magisterium.

 

[Inquiringperson]

Contraception has been infallibly declared immoral by de fide. De fide means that all the bishops in the world that is in communion with the Church agrees on a certain issue, making it a doctrine.

 

[Abu]

fakename
i was wondering, is the fact that contraception is wrong an infallible or non-fallible one? In general, are all such sexual morality teachings infallible or non-infallible?

To get at truth we need facts.

There are two categories of infallible teaching, one is dogma and the other is doctrine.
From Ecumenical Council Vatican I (Pastor Aeternus), for infallibility to be exercised the Pope must teach
(a) ex cathedra (from the Chair of Peter), that is as Shepherd and Teacher of all Christians,
(b) speaking with Peter’s apostolic authority to the whole Church,
(c) defining a doctrine of faith and morals.

So the Pope’s ‘ex cathedra’ definitions may be either of revealed dogma, to be believed with divine faith, or of other truths necessary for guarding and expounding revealed truth. Vatican Council II and the post-conciliar Magisterium have explicitly affirmed that both ecclesial and papal infallibility extend to the secondary doctrinal truths necessary for guarding and expounding revelation. Thus Humanae Vitae (Encyclical) against contraception, and *Ordinatio Sacerdotalis *(Apostolic Epistle) on male-only priests, contain infallible definitions, to remove all doubt.

The first infallible definition against contraception, as “a grave sin” came from Pope Pius XI in the Encyclical Casti Connubii in 1930, to give the truth against the Anglican surrender to contraception against all previous teaching, at the Lambeth Conference in England in 1930….“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 offence against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.”

 

[fred_conty]

The church dosen’t have to define everything infallibly. As far as I know, it never defined
infallibly that murder is wrong. It can be taught without being defined.