NFP in Marriage?

[LizaMarie]

On Paper, I've always believed the RCC to be right on artificial contraception,(as well as divorce/remarriage). But in practice-life is messy. As a Lutheran, I always believed that the number and spacing of children should be between the individual married couple(a man and a woman!) and God. Not the government either.(Humana Vitae predicted this)
And I personally know a couple who have a circumstance not exactly like Gurneys but similar. I cannot in anyway condemn them for the husband becoming sterilized. he loves his wife! (Another pregnancy=loss of life.) Of course we can tell people to remain abstinent in marriage but it is the same thing as expecting my husband and I to live like brother and sister, (that's another thread) because in the eyes of the RCC and some Protestant denominations he may well be still married to another woman. I have a dilemma there and I need to resolve it.
I therefore like the idea of Economia, but what I'm wondering is how-did we get to the point of contraception being for the hard cases, between a married couple only(as the Lambeth conference in 1930 resolved) and progressives a few decades later demanding it be available to all including minors with taxpayer dollars and without parental consent?
In the case of divorce, the same? Hey, I'm tired of my current spouse, he/she doesn't fulfill me any more, here I am on FB with my new honey after 30 years of marriage?

 

[LizaMarie]

I believe this shows the wisdom on the one hand of the EO but on the other, how does economia not turn into licence for the rest of the society?
Or is it like the Bible passage-grace abounds where there is more sin?

 

[~Anastasia~]

I can't answer your question - my guess is it's a dynamic that needs careful watching.

The mindset of society around us certainly isn't helping.

I know a priest may need to be concerned both with holding people to a certain standard of truth, while at the same time be concerned with the risk of driving them out of the Church due to being too harsh. I've seen the aftermath of both (not saying the priest made a mistake, but saying the way people responded to the priest caused trouble for them).

 

[LizaMarie]

I can't answer your question - my guess is it's a dynamic that needs careful watching.

The mindset of society around us certainly isn't helping.

I know a priest may need to be concerned both with holding people to a certain standard of truth, while at the same time be concerned with the risk of driving them out of the Church due to being too harsh. I've seen the aftermath of both (not saying the priest made a mistake, but saying the way people responded to the priest caused trouble for them).

Yes. In ways it seems like we are going back to the days of the early Church. The Society around us is post-Christian. Not Christian.
And maybe that's not a bad thing.