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To: Mrs. Don-o

Do I, personally, think so? Is that really relevant? After all, what matters is not my personal predilections but what the law of the Church provides.

Notwithstanding that I am, as I have been most charitably told, an idiot, as I read things, if a married couple intentionally has sex during the infertile periods (and, by implication, not during the other periods) in order to avoid having children, then yes, that is a venial sin because they are acting with so-called “contraceptive intent.”


256 posted on 01/13/2014 8:39:15 PM PST by Oceander
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To: Oceander
"I've been told that if a married couple intentionally has sex during the infertile periods (and, by implication, not during the other periods) in order to avoid having children, then yes, that is a venial sin because they are acting with so-called “contraceptive intent.”

Whoever told you this is in error. This is the normal, morally inoffensive practice of NFP. It is not a sin either to have intercourse with one's spouse during an infertile period, nor to abstain from intercourse in a fertile period. Neither of these actions is morally objectionable. Neither one singly, nor both together, would constitute contraception.

I ma not sure exactly what is meant by a "contraceptive intent". Possibly it means a refusal of children by married couples who are inveterately luxury-loving and self-serving. If it's a question of (A) $2853 per night for a suite at a luxury resort, a month out of every year, --- or (B) baby --- and the couple goes for "A" every time, there could well be sin involved. But if they ensured their childlessness by NFP, it would not be a sin of contraception.

Maybe avarice and gluttony (these are 2 of the 7 deadly sins) --- but not contraception.

257 posted on 01/14/2014 9:30:23 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Faith with love is the faith of Christians; without love, it is the faith of demons." - Ven. Bede)
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