Posted on 01/05/2014 2:25:11 PM PST by Gamecock
Why indeed?
My guess, and its just a guess mind you, is that woman don’t follow the churches rules on contraception because they don’t want to get pregnant.
It is difficult to imagine how so many Catholic women would violate church Doctrine and use birth control.
It may be time for Priests to deny Communion to those who have had abortions, support abortion, advocate gay rights and use birth control.
If not, Church Doctrine will simply become some old fashioned belief which in no longer observed.
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With women out of the home and into the working sector, the emphasis is to make money working and to not make babies.
Why do many non-Catholic couples, (not just the women) engage in contraception?
Why? Sin and ignorance...which can be found among all human groups.
PS There ARE Catholic women who follow the teaching of the Church in this area...more than you might think. :-)
Excellent point!
“The latter can be deduced from the fact that 72 per cent of women surveyed said they rely mainly on the homily at Sunday Mass for learning about the faith, and yet just 15 per cent of that group fully accept the Church’s teaching on sex and reproduction.”
I’m in my sixties and have attended Mass most Sundays since I was a kid. I can’t remember ever hearing a reference to family planning in a homily...
For the Church to have a position on something and never mention it in the homily is to take no position at all.
NFP has never been emphasized by the Church. It should be. But even so, American Catholics will never return to the days of 6, 8, 10 kids per family. It just isn’t going to happen. And it isn’t just the women “to blame” so let’s not go down that path.
My guess, and its just a guess mind you, is that woman don’t follow the churches rules on contraception because they don’t want to get pregnant.
“My guess...is that woman don’t follow the churches rules on contraception because they don’t want to get pregnant.”
I’m pretty sure you are correct.
The whole anti-contraception thing is a stupid policy that is ignored by parish priests and parishioners as they try to focus on more important things.
Most Catholics are opposed to abortion particularly late term abortion. They teach the importance of human life to their children.
And that makes it OK for the Roman Catholic women?
Let's stay on topic, shall we?
Because it’s their business. As long as I’m not paying for it through government program, I’m okay with it. Don’t really care for celibate men establishing sexual doctrine. In fact it’s rather a joke.
If we are concerned about the Republican vote, then it involves all couples.
In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in which he said that “The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.”
My understanding is that priests are taught that the homily they preach should stick very close to the Bible readings. Because of this I have never (or not that I can remember) ever heard a "relevant" homily. They are mostly vague injunctions to love one another as Christ, etc.
I understand that occasionally priests get in trouble for advising their congregations to support specific candidates who oppose abortion, etc. but I have never experienced anything close.
I would love to hear a homily that was more pointed and referred specifically to current moral questions. However, the conservatives in the Church would oppose such homilies as being too out-of-line with that day's reading and most likely accuse the priest of the sin of pride and a desire to start a cult of personality.
The more liberal priests can probably get away with more "relevant" homilies in their churches, but they they would either tend to stick to political/economic issues on which there is more latitude, or risk being censured by the Vatican for spouting heretical views on moral questions.
Catholics are one of the denominations of the democrat party, not the republican.
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