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Ron_Conte
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- The Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception. This teaching is definitive and irreformable.
- Contraception is gravely opposed to marital chastity; it is contrary to the good of the transmission of life (the procreative aspect of matrimony), and to the reciprocal self-giving of the spouses (the unitive aspect of matrimony); it harms true love and denies the sovereign role of God in the transmission of human life.
- The three fonts of morality are correctly described as the objective act (what we do), the subjective goal or intention (why we do the act), and the concrete situation or circumstances in which we perform the act.
- All three aspects must be good, the objective act, the subjective intention, and the circumstances, in order to have a morally good act.
- Any doctrine that dissociates the moral act from the bodily dimensions of its exercise is contrary to the teaching of Scripture and Tradition.
- Holy virginity surpasses marriage in excellence. Numerous advantages for advancement in spiritual life derive from a complete renouncement of all sexual pleasure.
- The negative commandments oblige always and under all circumstances. The Church has always taught that we may never choose the kinds of behavior prohibited by the negative moral commandments in the Old and New Testaments. These prohibitions allow no exceptions.
