Those Catholics are not “Practicing” Catholics. Some people like to call them “Cafeteria” Catholics.

Mike

Great job!!! You put it both beautifully and truthfully! I’ve never seen this subject explained so well.

God bless.

There’s many other reasons why not to use condoms/contraception. For instance those using contraception divorce 50% of the time. Those using NFP have a divorce rate between 0-4%.

Condoms/contraception all have failure rates for pregnancy and std’s. Using contraception is not being open to God’s Plan. Abstinance education is 100% effective.

Here’s some video’s you may want to watch…

http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2007/07/nfp_vs_contrace.html#comments

Mike

Here’s the answer…

Natural Family Planning is the knowledge of a couple’s fertility. It is a knowledge base about a couple’s ability to conceive a child.

The application of this knowledge in a particular marriage is called responsible parenthood. The couple either decides to try to achieve a pregnancy or to avoid by timing their use of the privileges of marriage according to the knowledge of their mutual fertility. (The man, if healthy, is fertile all the time. The woman, if healthy, is fertile about three or four days a month.)

Responsible parenthood differs from contraception in two ways:

1. There is no alteration of the bodies of either the husband or wife and this is a huge difference.

2. When the couple uses the privileges of marriage, they are not holding back at all or refusing to give everything they are, physically and spiritually. If they are infertile at the time, this is the result of the way God created them.

They are giving themselves totally to one another AS THEY ARE AT THAT MOMENT. No one could require more. Further, God never asked couples to use the privileges of marriage at any particular time. That decision is completely theirs. So, in the marital act during an infertile period, husband and wife who are applying the knowledge of their fertility (NFP) responsibly (responsible parenthood) are giving everything they are at that moment to one another.

The intention is also different. The NFP couple realizes that in every marital union there is a chance (perhaps remote) of conceiving a child and they accept this possibility. The contracepting couple (even if only with condoms) has a positive intention against conception.

An example might help: I want some money from a bank. It makes a huge difference whether I go to the bank and draw the money out from a checking account or whether I approach a teller with a gun and “withdraw” $100. Either way, I get the $100, but one act is radically differnt from the other.

http://www.ewtn.com/vexperts/showmessage.asp?number=441428

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I would also go to PureLoveClub.com and listen to the online talks given by Jason Evert on the website.

Mike

http://www.pureloveclub.com/seminars/index.php?id=5

Mike

http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/06/obama_if_father.html#comments

Mike

Have you ever read Humanae Vitae?

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html

or read Christopher West’s book on “Theology of the Body”?

Mike

Contraception isn’t bad, though I do object to giving it out to high schoolers as a “solution” to teen pregnancy. But when you’re married I don’t see a problem with using contraception.

Hmmm….who would be responsible to teach them that? Maybe they were NOT taught to use responsible and mature judgement in cases where pre-marital sex is concerned?

Oh, wait..silly me…they DON’T teach those important stuff in Sex ed classes sponsored by PP and other liberal/ pro-abort groups.

Regardless, rich, poor, white, black, the question is why? I don’t think these girls are thinking too far ahead. I think the answer might be as simple as it is the “in thing” to do in there circle.

I think the root of it is not understanding the great responsibility of having a child–they only see the “glamor” of it, and of course, if all your friends are having babies, you’d like to have one too so you can be like them.

Now, think what will happen when the baby cries at 3 AM and the mother decides that the baby doesn’t love her.

(Abused children are actually more likely to have been not only wanted but planned.)