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I think certainly among more and more conservative Christians especially women the idea that Birth Control is a sin is very much coming back into consciousness.
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Compendium issued by Pope Benedict XVI
2368-2369
- When is it moral to regulate births?
2399
The regulation of births, which is an aspect of responsible fatherhood and motherhood, is objectively morally acceptable when it is pursued by the spouses without external pressure; when it is practiced not out of selfishness but for serious reasons; and with methods that conform to the objective criteria of morality, that is,periodic continence and use of the infertile periods.
vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html
(NFP when used to avoid is a form of periodic continence)
As to if you have such a reason - that is something you would discern with your husband -before God- and you might wish to discuss too with your Husbands Pastor or another faithful Priest.
The Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Church notes:
vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/documents/rc_pc_justpeace_doc_20060526_compendio-dott-soc_en.html
- The family contributes to the social good in an eminent fashion through responsible motherhood and fatherhood, the spouses’ special participation in God’s work of creation[519]. The weight of this responsibility must not be used as a justification for being selfishly closed but must guide the decisions of the spouses in a generous acceptance of life. “In relation to physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, responsible parenthood is exercised both in the duly pondered and generous decision to have a large family, and in the decision, made for serious reasons and in respect of the moral law, to avoid for a time or even indeterminately a new birth”[520]. The motivations that should guide the couple in exercising responsible motherhood and fatherhood originate in the full recognition of their duties towards God, towards themselves, towards the family and towards society in a proper hierarchy of values.
- *The judgment concerning the interval of time between births, and that regarding the number of children, ***belongs to the spouses alone./****I] This is one of their inalienable rights, to be exercised before God with due consideration of their obligations towards themselves, their children already born, the family and society[528].
AMEN to this! Unfortunately, there are folks that will not understand it.
There is way too much ‘looking outside of the spousal relationship’ for an answer that -
***belongs to the spouses alone./***I]
Each couple knows their situation the best.
The other key is understanding that the ‘selfishly closed’ = artificial contraception (or onanism).
It’s a different sin (if so) if there is not mutual agreement on the matter, it is not ‘NFP’s sinfulness’.
NFP by definition, is always ‘open to life’. No artificial means to stop conception is always ‘open’.
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