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When Pope Paul VI released “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”) in 1968, all expected him to bless the brave new world of contraception. Instead, he dropped a bomb that is ripping apart the Western world to this day. He condemned contraception and warned that it could “open wide the way to marital infidelity.” He said it was “an evil thing” to make it easy for the young to break the moral law. For men, he added, getting used to contraception could tempt them to “forget the reverence due to a woman” and “reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires.”
From what I see of the world, it looks like he was very correct.When Pope Paul VI released “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”) in 1968, all expected him to bless the brave new world of contraception. Instead, he dropped a bomb that is ripping apart the Western world to this day. He condemned contraception and warned that it could “open wide the way to marital infidelity.” He said it was “an evil thing” to make it easy for the young to break the moral law. For men, he added, getting used to contraception could tempt them to “forget the reverence due to a woman” and “reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires.”
Hear, hear!
– Mark L. Chance.
More than just right. I’m thinking: prophetic.From what I see of the world, it looks like he was very correct.
I agree that many people do not realize the effect of birth control pills and I believe that many are also ignorant of many other teachings of our Catholic faith. I don’t think that it should be assumed that all Catholics know all the teachings. I believe that intensive education in the basics needs to be done for all Catholics. I think some parish priests are uncomfortable about approaching certain subjects and just do not bring them up. This just adds to the problem.Most people do not know that the birth control pill has abortive actions in them…many thousands, perhaps millions, of women are chemically aborting their babies without even knowing it–that likely includes a great many pro-life women.
Prophetic indeed.