What is the official teaching of the Catholic church regarding artificial birth control?

Yes, I do agree with Church teaching on birth control. I am a Catholic and I am for birth control...no offense, but I think the church's view on that as well as on other issues is complete bs Then you are not Catholic. When a "Catholic" decides that he or she knows better than the Church, they are effectively making themselves God's authority.

Jesus gave Peter the keys, and the authority to loose and bind. He did not give it to every individual. To say you are Catholic but that some of the teachings are "complete bs" is to make yourself the divine authority on morality.

That is a dangerous place to put yourself. I don't see how the church can keep promoting that doctrine when an overwhelming majority of their members don't agree with it. Because it isn't an opinion, it is an infallible teaching, which means it is of God.

We have to keep promoting God's divine truth no matter how unpopular it is...even within the Church. The Church is not a democracy, it is a Theocracy. We answer to God.

But you can go to confession every week right? So what is the big deal. Just make sure you go to a different priest every time.

Actually, no you can't just go to confession every week. Getting a different priest means nothing, you are confessing to the same God and he knows you are not sorry for you sin. The Church has never taught that a person can sin all they like and just confess it.

When you come into the confessional you need to be contrite and sorry for your sins and offenses. God is not fooled.

I am Catholic. I understand the church feels that birth control is a sin, one that I had to live with committing. I went to speak to the priest one time about birth control and was told "if you are goign to use birth control, I can't forgive your sin until you stop"...so I said alright, and left unforgiven.

My mother had 7 kids. Eventually, her priest told her is was as much of a sin to keep having children she couldn't afford as to use birth control. So basically, he told her to go ahead and use it.

So, I think that church or no church, you have to decide what is right for you. I went to Catholic school and was told there by my religion teacher that, aside from the ten commandments, things are only sins if you feel guilty about it". I didn't feel guilty about birth control, so I didn't feel it was a sin...I did what I had to do at the time.

Actually, I can't say I didn't feel guilty about it, I did, but still, it was what I had to do..so I guess I just accepted the fact that I was sinning. I'll take that up with God on judgement day I suppose!

Roman Catholic Answer The official teaching of the Catholic Church on birth control is contained in Pope Paul VI's encyclical, Humana Vitae and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church In paragraph 2370 of The Catechism there is this sentence: every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil and paragraph 2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception.

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