Comments on: Why Catholic Women Use Contraception

By: Michelle lavender

Michelle lavender — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:04:00 +0000

Fear it doesn’t work, or experience it doesn’t work. NFP gave me baby number four on welfare

By: Michelle lavender

Michelle lavender — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:02:00 +0000

I agree. I tried NFP, it was not effective. When you are already 3 kids in and on welfare and the church says NFP is the right way to go, so you do it very fearful but trusting, then you wind up with number four on welfare. Well, I’d like to know what is more morally correct? Condoms or having a zillion babies I can’t pay for?

By: Annamarie53

Annamarie53 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:24:00 +0000

TC, I agree completely with you! It seems to me that Annie has many more serious issues deal with than she let on here. She appears very defensive and almost hostile to the Church’s teachings. The tip-off is wherein she starts saying what the Church and God REALLY want as if she has a direct hot line to which the rest of us are not privy. I think we should all pray for her.

By: TC

TC — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:49:00 +0000

Annie, please educate yourself on Catholic teaching about marital love. Your comments here indicate that you are utterly and completely ignorant of the reasons that contraception is illicit. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is online and has a wonderful index. You can begin there.

By: Annamarie53

Annamarie53 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:18:00 +0000

Amen, my brother! You have hit the nail squarely on the head! Thank you for seeing through all the rhetoric and stating the problem so clearly.

By: Annamarie53

Annamarie53 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:14:00 +0000

Wow, defensive much? You have a right to your opinion as I do to mine. I want women to seriously examine, investigate WHAT these pills are doing to your bodies. They are not a harmless way to get around the hard work of parenthood, or being Catholic in a world that does not treasure love that comes with abstinence on the part of both spouses, or the sacrifices that we all make. I, too, put my children through Catholic schools from kindergarten to high school graduation. No, it wasn’t easy. I don’t believe it is as easy as an “either/or” proposition. All the things you mentioned are evils. But surely you have heard the phrase, “Two wrongs don’t make a right?” We ALL need to love our brothers and sisters more, and I don’t mean just siblings.
I don’t think we are that far apart in our views. The WORST thing we can do is what Satan wants and to split the Church further by going for the jugular with anyone who doesn’t agree with us.
God bless you, my sister.

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:20:00 +0000

I went through 12 years of Catholic school and have worked at a Catholic high school for twenty years. I don’t know one mother who thinks taking taking birth control pills is wrong. We put our children through Catholic school, which can be very expensive. What if I were to say that people that send their children to public school don’t care enough about the church’s teachings because if they did they would send them to Catholic school where they learn and live much more of their Catholic faith. Do you really think that God cares how you prevent pregnancies if you have children already? Don’t you think he would rather you spend your time and energy helping or adopting children that don’t have a family. This is one of the most trivial arguments of the Church. If birth control is being used so people can run around having sex, that issue is not birth control but something much bigger. If a married couple who has 3-4 children already wants to make their life a little easier by taking birth control pills over the church’s way, I hardly think God is judging them. Life is hard and stressful everyday. We all need to find little harmless things to keep are faith, patience, and sanity. For those of you who say well “she just doesn’t understand”, I have three college degrees and have spoken to numerous Catholic priest about this topic. They are not cowards for not speaking out, they simply realized that there many more important topics to cover; such as, child abuse, drug abuse, homelessness, poverty, mental illness, children shooting up school, the unimaginable things happening to women all over the world at the hands of men, etc. I think many of you need to look at yourselves to see which rules you are breaking and the sins you are committing and I think you will find they are a much bigger deal than how certain people prevent pregnancy. Only God is perfect, the Catholic Church has a long history of making mistakes.

By: rn4dstork

rn4dstork — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 06:43:00 +0000

I’m really amazed that all of my catholic co-workers use birth control, even the mormons take it. They look at me as if I’m crazy, I never took it and didn’t do anything other but abstinence. When you love each other dearly you can do it. It only increases the love for each other. Riki

By: Wayward Son

Wayward Son — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:19:00 +0000

A big reason why Catholic women dissent is fears that NFP doesn’t work.

Perhaps they know sisters, friends or their own mothers who struggled with some form of Church approved family planning. (“NFP…that’s where your little sister came from.”) NFP is often confused with the obsolete and ineffective rhythm method.

And Catholic NFP promoters have often pushed theology and “openness to life” at the expense of the science. And couples have struggled as a result. But the science needs to be taken seriously because the science supports the faith.

The Catholic Church recognized that couples may have serious reasons to prevent pregnancy. Humanae Vitae 10. Humanae Vitae 24 calls upon men of science to find an effective method of NFP. And several such methods have been discovered.

Even secular sources have noticed. The leading secular book on NFP, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, has hundreds of 5-star ratings on Amazon.

It is time for the Catholic Church to spread the good news about NFP. It is a physically, psychologically, and relationally healthier way of living.

By: Jeannee Waseck

Jeannee Waseck — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:35:00 +0000

So many times I have sat in my Catholic church to hear a “Catholic lite” sermon that taught me absolutely nothing about the faith or about how to concretely live it out … and let’s not even begin the conversation about speakers who can’t speak without mumbling, etc, etc. I have to say, this is one place ‘the Protestants got it right!’, and it behooves us to PAY ATTENTION.