[momtothree]

“Not sure what using a condom in and of itself has to do with sinning”.

The bible says, “Be fruitful and multiply”. However, it never said to try to multiply the planet by yourself. In my Mother’s and Father’s day, the Church said to restrict the conception of children in ANY form was against the church. The bottom line is to have a lot of children, a family has to be wealthy OR live in poverty. Every single one of my Catholic women friends use some form of birth control (usually condoms) or sterilization after they had their limit.

[free me]

The bottom line is to have a lot of children, a family has to be wealthy OR live in poverty.
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What nonsense! My mother gave birth to 11 children. We were neither wealthy nor poor. (Mom didn’t work)

[ninergold3]

My mother-in-law was Catholic. She had six children - had a worthless, lazy man as a husband and she worked 3 jobs to try to support the family. She went to her local parish to ask permission to use birth control due to her family situation. She was told, in no uncertain terms, "no". That was the last time she ever set foot in a Catholic church except for weddings and funerals.

My great-aunt heard this story and told my MIL that it was "easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission". My great-aunt simply used birth control and asked for forgiveness when she went to confession.