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Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that the Vatican’s teaching against birth control was difficult – as he praised a 1968 Church document that condemned contraception.
In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the document, Benedict reiterated the Church’s ban against artificial birth control as well as more recent teaching against using artificial procreation methods…
“No mechanical technique can substitute the act of love that two married people exchange as a sign of a greater mystery,” Benedict said in his speech.
“Forty years after its publication, that teaching not only shows itself to be unchanged in its truth, but it reveals the farsightedness with which the problem was tackled,” the pope said.
Next month, the Vatican is issuing a document supporting teachings that virgin birth and celibacy are as important, today, as CPM/Basic and Wordstar.
Forty years after the first publication of the encyclical on Human Life, the Catholic Church remains exactly the same–ignoring the rapid spread of AIDS in Africa, not facing the fact that some don’t want children and not realizing by not allowing contraception they are promoting child abuse and negligent parents.
Most of the western world will just continue to ignore these teachings and “bans” like they have been for the past 4 decades, but who the Pope should be thinking of are the millions of people in poorer civilizations still looking up to the Church for guidance. There are many that truly believe they will be punished by God after using a condom, and so the spread of vicious STDs continues.
Banning artificial procreation is also ridiculous–the Catholic Church believes if a couple cannot have children naturally, they should not be married. Basically, they would rather have children brought into unloving families than into loving homes. To read more from this article, please go to http://www.theidaexpress.com
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I will take the fact that you have resorted to ad hominems and being dismissive as signs that you are having trouble defending your own position and that we have likely hit a sensitive wall of your personality that you are not prepared to breech. Resorting to these tactics is a common defensive posture used by people in your position. It is much easier to claim, “You don’t know about the world’s religions” than continue to argue a losing position.