Comments on: Catholics proclaim being faithful kills

By: Lee Rudolph

Lee Rudolph — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:38:22 +0000

“I will for the record never use contraception”

Oh, my dear, *please* don’t breed, whatever you do!

” - and I will require my husband to have an STD test prior to marriage if he is not a virgin. And I live in Britain.”

Have you considered becoming a Bride of Christ? I gather there’s quite a premium these days on BoC’s from the Global North. And then you could waive the STD test, no worries.

By: sophia

sophia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:53:22 +0000

Although I do find it difficult to cope with given the extent of STDs in the developing world and especially given the lesser ability to treat them, still, the fact is that according to the Church it is objectively immoral to use condoms. They didn’t just invent that idea out of nowhere because they want people to get diseases but because they believe all contraceptive acts are immoral, they sort of fudge around the NFP issue basically by saying NFP isn’t contraceptive because you can still get pregnant if it happens that you are more fertile than you thought… but thats how it goes.
The thing is though, you CAN still catch a deadly disease using a condom, it might be less likely, but they are not lying here, they’re just trying to get people to stop doing what they believe is wrong.
Of course it would be better combined with a more active abstinence message because it DOES give the impression condoms make it more likely to die than not using them, which is a troublesome message.

I will for the record never use contraception - and I will require my husband to have an STD test prior to marriage if he is not a virgin. And I live in Britain.

By: Willie

Willie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:14:33 +0000

Truly shocking and should be widely publicised, not least amongst the majority of Catholics in Britain who happily ignore their Church’s teaching on contraception.

Only last week, the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy O’Connor, had an article in The Guardian and had the audacity to talk about the Catholic Church’s work in Aids prevention.