Posted on 04/21/2008 11:49:39 AM PDT by Pyro7480
The day after Pope Benedict XVI departed the U.S..., Blaine Harden of the Washington Post lamented the Catholic Church’s influence in the Philippines, specifically, the government of Philippines "acceding to Catholic doctrine" by "supporting only what it calls ‘natural’ family planning," rejecting "modern contraception" as part of family planning." Throughout his article, titled "Birthrates Help Keep Filipinos in Poverty," Harden painted a bleak picture of "the fastest-growing segment of the Philippine population," which is "very poor people with large families," and sought to blame their poverty and backwardness on their following Catholic teaching, brushing aside corruption and other factors that contribute to poverty. A photo accompanying the article in the print-edition of the Post showed a poor Filipino mother in her shack with her four children, two of whom are naked.
Harden described the Church’s influence throughout the article, hinting that it had created a climate of fear in the country "An organization that is helping Espinoza [a poor Filipino woman who plans to get a contraceptive intrauterine device] agreed to introduce this reporter to her on condition that it not be named. The group’s health workers said they fear retaliation and harassment from officials in the national and city government, as well as from the Catholic Church." He immediately mentioned after this that in 2005, the "Catholic bishops in the southern Philippines announced that they would refuse Communion to government health workers who distributed birth control devices."
The article seemed to be prompted, at least partially, by the fact that the "[d]istribution of donated contraceptives... ends this year, as does a contraception-commodities program paid for by the U.S. Agency for International Development." ...This means the U.S. taxpayers, millions of whom who are opposed to contraceptives, are paying for these contraceptive programs in the Philippines...
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Catholic and pro-life ping!
And I fault liberal narcotic-welfare for creating the utterly humiliating liberal plantation in New Orleans called the 9th Ward.
Better title: “WAPO laments birth of so many brown people.”
Is it a good thing that poor Filipinos have lots of children they can’t really afford to raise?
Sure the Filipinos should create more government and raise taxes. /sarcasm
Is it a good thing to treat God’s gift of sexual intercourse as a pleasure toy to be used at will with the aid of artificial hormone pills
(egad - hormones! we can’t drink milk or eat beef with hormones, but we expect women to ingest them for decades to avoid the natural effects of sexual intercourse?)
or abortion?
Wait a minute...I thought Democrats wanted Big Governement OUT of the bedroom? You can’t mean to say that sodomy between concenting, same-sex couples is government-sanctioned legal behavior, but the Liberals think that it is their business to tell normal humans what they can and can’t do!
Let’s not forget that “the Pill” can act either as a contraceptive or an abortifacient.
I wonder if the Filipinas being “helped” here are being told that.
So it’s the Catholic Church’s fault that the poor Filapinas have nothing better to do than have sex? What about personal responsibility? Oh STFU WaPo
If they use birth control within marriage I have no problem with it. And if they choose not to and have more kids than they can afford to raise well, they to a significant extent have themselves to blame for their and their families’ continued poverty.
Clearly, in you the dictatorship of relativism has a supporter. The pope warned us about you.
Speaking of brown people with white Spaniards at some of their roots..... what is the excuse for Mexico’s overpopulation/ poverty rates? Mexico tossed out Church teachings in the latter half of the 19th century. Why do these people always blame the Church for the destruction/failures of secular governments? /mini-rant off
Then you have no problem with abortion.
And if the pope has in decided to warn about this, why should I care?
Best bet for the Post when it comes to world population growth is to get the staff sterilized ~ even the lesbians!
I come from a parish with many families having many children. Those who cannot afford more, do not use artificial birth control.
NFP and Daddy on the couch makes for families one can afford.
Abortion is the killing of a life. A sperm =/= a fetus.
Sometimes the Pill acts as a contraceptive. If conception nonetheless takes place, the Pill acts as an abortifacient by preventing implantation.
Are you opposed to abortion or not?
I have no opinion about whether the Catholic church is in fact partially responsible for this (it seems that poor people worldwide, Catholic or not, have a proclivity to have more kids than they can afford). I just think that the behavior itself is contributing to their poverty.
Daddy on the couch? Women are throwing their husbands out of the marital bed?
I oppose abortion, but don’t have a strong opinion on the pill.
I have no problem at all with other forms of birth control like like condoms that prevent conception in the first place.
Good.
...but don’t have a strong opinion on the pill.
Well you should, since it acts as an abortifacient in some cases.
No, men are going themselves.
It's called sacrifice and many Catholic men do it. Whether it is at certain times of the month or for a period of time.
God Love every one of them!
A convenient, non-biblical, darwinistic, and belated departure from thousands of years of biblical understanding (including 1900 years of UNIVERSAL Christian understanding) that originated at the Lambeth conference is certainly nothing a self-respecting Chrisitan would ever flaunt as proof of Protestant truth.
A convenient, non-biblical, darwinistic, and belated departure from thousands of years of biblical understanding
(including 1900 years of UNIVERSAL Christian understanding that intercourse was a sacred act, the prupose of which was not to be frustrated)
that originated at the Lambeth conference is certainly nothing a self-respecting Chrisitan would ever flaunt as proof of Protestant truth.
The relativist world pines for the “Catholic Lambeth moment”, after which the walls of moral truth will crumble and disappear.
Fortunately, the Church will be preserved from that moment.
Just another finger in ears “lalalala, I can’t hear you” moment for a poster.
It only an abortion when it’s convenient.
And that doesn't change the fact that poor Filipinos' decisions to have many children do contribute to their continued poverty.
After all, why should I not have what I want when I want it with no natural consequences?
I mean, what’s wrong with me and my wife unilaterally deciding to thwart God’s will and deny Him his right to join His creative power to our marital love-making? Who in the hell does he think he is?
Poverty? I think you mean their continued lack of all the nice gizmos you think are necessary in life (flat screen tv, cars, cable tv, 200 varities of salad dressing at the grocery store, pampers, air conditioning, etc.)
I mean, what’s wrong with me and my wife unilaterally deciding to thwart God’s will and deny Him his right to join His creative power to our marital love-making?
Who in the hell does He think He is?
No, actually I know people who lived there. The poor are dirt poor, like no shoes, poop in a ditch poor.
But there are also very rich people there. So the question is not how many children but how corrupt the government?
The hormone dosage in the typically prescribed oral contraceptive (e.g., OrthoTriCyclene)) is not sufficient to prevent implantation or induce abortion via menses.
LOL, those must be randy dogs. I’ve never had to go to the couch during NFP “danger days”.
I guess they know their own limitations!
We have a family on their sixth. The parents are still in their twenties. I get the feeling that he will be taking up a place on the couch!
Hmmm, that isn’t what it says here...
http://krohse.com/birthcontrol/options/TRICYCLEN.html
Oh you’ve lost your mind..........I’m a Catholic and the one area that the Church has failed to stress is birth-control. They COULD help the very, very poor latin/american cultures in this regard. Vast amounts of poor starving children are the sad by-product of their teachings. ...And while we’re at it...they could allow priests to marry and lose the dresses.....It IS 2008!
No...he/she means children eating at garbage pits because the Church continues to encourage large families in areas where they live on $1.oo a week. Get a clue.
You’re a Catholic?
More like a CINO.
False.
BS...the Church is encourageing people who have no skills/no education/abject poverty to have more hungry babies......not ethical, not right, simple as that. Being Catholic does not mean you stop thinking for yourself.
The Church does not "encourage" people to have children they can't care for.
NFP has a 99% success rate, requires at most a thermometer and some paper, and is therefore a whole lot cheaper than pills or devices. It it has absolutely no side effects, unlike the pill which has been known to kill women. And yes, it has been and is being taught in the 3rd world.
Some certainly seem to think otherwise (though the same is true of a number of Protestants I know).
I mean, what’s wrong with me and my wife unilaterally deciding to thwart God’s will and deny Him His right to join His creative power to our marital love-making?
Who in the hell does He think He is?
If “thinking for myself” equals “sinning,” then it really isn’t “thinking for myself,” it’s “I’ll do what I want, despite the fact I know it’s wrong.”
ah-hhh..but you’re wrong....they encourage the poor and illiterate to reproduce and call it a sin if they use birth control.
I think that the sin is in having millions of poor hungry babies with HUGE death rates before they ar 5...the Church needs to step in and change this teaching. Simple as that.
It is what it is. It's not made up. It truly is wrong to use artificial birth control. The rest of your thought is just conspiracy theory.
On that note, the Church isn't going to change its teaching. You act like the faith is just something someone made up, like the secularists think.
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