Posted on 01/16/2015 4:41:20 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Pope Francis took the opportunity during an address to families in the Philippines to praise Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical opposing contraception and affirming Church teaching on sexuality and human life.
The Pope spoke Friday to families gathered at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila during his Jan. 15-19 visit to the Philippines.
After discussing various threats to the family, including “a lack of openness to life,” he deviated briefly from his prepared remarks, transitioning from English to his native Spanish in order to speak from the heart about the subject.
“I think of Blessed Paul VI,” he said. “In a moment of that challenge of the growth of populations, he had the strength to defend openness to life.”
In 1968, Pope Paul VI released the encyclical Humanae Vitae, which upheld Catholic teaching on sexuality and the immorality of artificial contraception, predicting the negative consequences that would result from a cultural acceptance of birth control.
“He knew the difficulties that families experience, and that’s why in his encyclical, he expressed compassion for particular cases. And he taught professors to be particularly compassionate with particular cases,” Pope Francis said.
“But he went further. He looked to the peoples beyond. He saw the lack and the problem that it could cause families in the future. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor, and he warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.”
Pope Francis’ comments come in the wake of Philippines president Benigno Aquino's signing a highly controversial reproductive health bill in 2013 that drew strong protest from local bishops and members of the faith.
The legislation requires government-sanctioned sex education for adults, middle school and high school students, as well as a population control program that includes fully subsidized contraceptives under government health insurance. The nation's bishops spoke out strongly against the measure.
Elsewhere in Pope Francis’ address, he spoke about the threats to family posed by natural disasters, poverty, migration, and a redefinition of marriage.
He called for “good and strong families to overcome these threats.”
“Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death,” he urged.
The Pope encouraged regular family prayer to hear and understand the will of God, as well as action to be prophetic witnesses in the world.
He deviated from the text of his remarks on several other occasions as well, speaking about his love for St. Joseph and the importance of dreaming within a family.
“When you lose this capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and this energy to love is lost,” he said.
In addition, Pope Francis warned against an “ideological colonization” that does not originate with God, but that tries to destroy the family.
The Pope asked Christians to pray to St. Joseph for the wisdom to identify and reject ideas and initiatives that are driven by these false ideologies and threaten the family.
"Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death," he urged.
This won't make the eco-Sangerites and cultural Marxists happy.
You are referring to the ones in the Church, I presume.
The church needed as big of an army as they could muster, to prevent being eaten by the beast they created.
Breed yourselves to pestilence and starvation, it's the HRC way! Rome needs warriors and support personnel. As long as the Church is draped in scarlet and purple with golden crowns and cups, breed yourselves into the dirt.
In and out.
Dude! Step away from the bong.
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"This no use of BC smacks of population control."This no use of birth control smacks of OPPOSITION TO population control. Is that want you meant to say?
"The church needed as big of an army as they could muster, to prevent being eaten by the beast they created."I have no idea what this means. The Pope is speaking of families as sanctuaries of life. Nothing in this article about mustering armies or creating monsters.
Are we reading the same article?
"Breed yourselves to pestilence and starvation, it's the HRC way! Rome needs warriors and support personnel."
This has various levels of incoherence. For one thing, creating pestilence and starvation does not produce warriors and support personnel. No one wants sick, starving warriors.
Second, there is nothing to logically connect wising up and refusing contraception, with pestilence and starvation.
Husbands and wives can control their fertility comfortably without contraception. In fact, Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the only method of family planning which
" As long as the Church is draped in scarlet and purple with golden crowns and cups, breed yourselves into the dirt."Your personal page says your account has been banned. That's strange. Offline, is your real name Alexander Sanger?
I’ll be back later.
Haven't hit a bong in many moons. Thank you and God Bless.
“The Pope asked Christians to pray to St. Joseph for the wisdom to identify and reject ideas and initiatives that are driven by these false ideologies and threaten the family.”
James 1:5 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.
So which document is wrong and which one is correct, your Bible or your Catechism?
: ) Lol, did not see that one coming!
Don’t forget the Catholic view: Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium (teaching authority) of the Church! When we say “pray to” we are asking for intercession.
It all depends on which way you want the population to go? It's still control. It was used to help fight off satanallah's slime hordes. It was necessary at the time.
It is detrimental to Island populations! They can easily outgrow their ability to sustain life in a manner less than horrific. Guess the P doesn't care about them.
>"Husbands and wives can control their fertility comfortably without contraception. In fact, Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the only method of family planning"
I do agree with you on NFP. I agree with you on the non use of hormonal /chemical contraception. I disagree with you on prophylactics. They are not harmful. They do not kill the product of conception. They only prevent it.
No wonder so many C's voted for 0m0slem, they're used to govt dictating their health care choices.
It's control in the hands of the husband and the wife. They can, if they choose, use NFP and be in SOLE control of their fertility. You got a problem with that?
"It is detrimental to Island populations! They can easily outgrow their ability to sustain life in a manner less than horrific. Guess the P doesn't care about them."
NFP is not detrimental to island populations. You are very much mistaken.
"I do agree with you on NFP. I agree with you on the non use of hormonal /chemical contraception. I disagree with you on prophylactics. They are not harmful. They do not kill the product of conception. They only prevent it."
Glad you agree on NFP.
Condoms: one big problem with them is that the average user failure rate, according to the CDC, is 18%. If you were a sky-diver, would you trust your safety to parachutes that had an 18% failure rate? I think you see the problem.
"No wonder so many C's voted for 0m0slem..."
(1) Catholics, unfortunately, voted for Obama at the same rate (+- 1%) as the American electorate as a whole. That is shameful. I hate it. But it certainly does not indicate a special Catholic propensity to vote Obamunist. We're --- maddeningly --- thoroughly assimilated into the corrupt American electorate, and vote exactly the same way as our fellow deluded citizens.
"[Catholics are] used to govt dictating their health care choices."
That is exactly and precisely and even apodictically wrong. The Catholic Health Care Religious and Ethical Directives forbid the usurpation of medical decisions by the State as a violation of subsidiarity and of human rights. Nobody has done more or beter in opposing the Culture-of-Death mentality n the medical system, than the Catholic Church.
It's only when systems become less Catholic that they fall into the hands of the State. That's happening, now, an extremely bad trend.
And the solution would be, for Catholic systems to be more Catholic.
Thank you for posting that!!!
They're both correct. Thank you so much for asking.
They’re both correct. Thank you so much for asking.
That didn’t answer the question, you are dodging.
Thank you for your post #8.
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