Contraception is an increasingly controversial subject as it seems to be of great importance to those wishing to have sexual relations without procreating. Yet for those wishing to do the will of God, the beliefs of the Church demonstrate that the use of contraception is wrong because it’s a deliberate violation of the design God built into the human race. The idea that God designed this body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct, is known as “natural law,” and it directly relates to the argument display by the Church opposing the use of contraception. If people wait till marriage to have relations with their spouse, than there is less of a requirement for contraception because the majority of married couples
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During 1900 B.C. people would use an assortment of potions to prevent birth, however, modern day, the use of pills, condoms and the tying of the female fallopian tubes seems to be the primary choices, yet the Church’s message remains the same. In fact, Contraception is directly addressed within the Catechism when it states, “The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.(12)” It is the belief of the Church that God has forbid the use of contraception because it prevents His plan from being carried out through the creation of sexual intercourse. Another example of the reaffirming of the Church view surfaced in 1968, when it was addressed by Pope Paul VI who issued his landmark encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Latin, "Human Life"), which reemphasized the Church’s consistent teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence. While many different Churches have allowed their view on Contraception to be altered in order to please the public, the Catholic church has stood strong in its resolve to oppose the use of contraception despite the changing times. Overall, the church’s view on …show more content…
seem to disagree; “The vast majority of U.S. Catholics stopped listening to the church about birth control in 1968, when Pope Paul VI dashed couples ' hopes and retained the ban on contraception.” The argument the Catholics within the U.S. primarily pose is, shouldn 't it be alright for a married couple, who’s simply not ready for the responsibility of a child? However the church continued to expressed disapproval when in his famous speech in 1968 the encyclical Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI reiterated the Church’s long-standing and definitive teaching that artificial contraception is "intrinsically wrong," namely that it is always and in every instance evil, because it contradicts the procreative purpose of sex. "It hurt the papacy" and the pope 's credibility on other issues, "It has transformed the Catholic Church and diminished its influence as a moral force on the planet." However, there have been moderations to the Church teaching, primarily concerning the circumstances some find themselves in. In the Word of the Lord it is written, “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the
During 1900 B.C. people would use an assortment of potions to prevent birth, however, modern day, the use of pills, condoms and the tying of the female fallopian tubes seems to be the primary choices, yet the Church’s message remains the same. In fact, Contraception is directly addressed within the Catechism when it states, “The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.(12)” It is the belief of the Church that God has forbid the use of contraception because it prevents His plan from being carried out through the creation of sexual intercourse. Another example of the reaffirming of the Church view surfaced in 1968, when it was addressed by Pope Paul VI who issued his landmark encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Latin, "Human Life"), which reemphasized the Church’s consistent teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence. While many different Churches have allowed their view on Contraception to be altered in order to please the public, the Catholic church has stood strong in its resolve to oppose the use of contraception despite the changing times. Overall, the church’s view on …show more content…
seem to disagree; “The vast majority of U.S. Catholics stopped listening to the church about birth control in 1968, when Pope Paul VI dashed couples ' hopes and retained the ban on contraception.” The argument the Catholics within the U.S. primarily pose is, shouldn 't it be alright for a married couple, who’s simply not ready for the responsibility of a child? However the church continued to expressed disapproval when in his famous speech in 1968 the encyclical Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI reiterated the Church’s long-standing and definitive teaching that artificial contraception is "intrinsically wrong," namely that it is always and in every instance evil, because it contradicts the procreative purpose of sex. "It hurt the papacy" and the pope 's credibility on other issues, "It has transformed the Catholic Church and diminished its influence as a moral force on the planet." However, there have been moderations to the Church teaching, primarily concerning the circumstances some find themselves in. In the Word of the Lord it is written, “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman. But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the