Sorry, not seeing the distinction you need to make still.posting this last comparison (I'm bad about logging out!)
condom use: wrong intention + disordered sexual act
NFP misuse: wrong intention + natural sexual act
Oh I don't see any real difference. Some would argue that it's using natural infertile periods.. but in my eyes it's very simple. Sex is for procreation. End off. Separating that truth from the act, even by using a calendar is still wrong.
Just don't have sex if you're not interested in procreation. If you time it to reduce the risks of a pregnancy you're still trying to avoid a pregnancy whilst enjoying the act of sex..
It's like in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix novel when Fred and George came of age and started whipping their wands out for every little thing and apparating every couple of feet. Just because you can doesn't mean you must.
That's pretty much it. One method is natural (nfp). The other isn't (condoms).
posting this last comparison (I'm bad about logging out!)
condom use: wrong intention + disordered sexual act
NFP misuse: wrong intention + natural sexual act
You should be asking this question in RCIA & follow up with a priest.Yeah, I know I need to slog through Theology of the Body someday, but perhaps my liberal side is coming out as I'm finding it hard to care much about issues of proper sexual conduct as long as it is mutual and not exploitative.
At this rate I'll surely be a serial RCIA dropout.
the gospel according to st.matthewSorry, not seeing the distinction you need to make still.
Yeah, I know I need to slog through Theology of the Body someday, but perhaps my liberal side is coming out as I'm finding it hard to care much about issues of proper sexual conduct as long as it is mutual and not exploitative.
At this rate I'll surely be a serial RCIA dropout.
Why do people keep suggesting talking with priests anyway? There's so few of them that surely their time would be wasted talking with people like me over silly little moralistic stuff.
The more I think about it, the more I just don't get it. I can understand artificial birth control that can possibly be abortifacent not being allowed, but what is the issue with condoms? With NFP it seems like couples deliberately have sex during infertile periods. It seems like using a calendar to keep sperm and egg apart. With a condom it's a piece of rubber. So what's the difference?
waste their time?Why do people keep suggesting talking with priests anyway? There's so few of them that surely their time would be wasted talking with people like me over silly little moralistic stuff.
I don't see how people who use NFP to prevent conception are more open to life than people who use condoms, nor do I see how people who use condoms but want to have kids and do actually have kids are less open to life than NFP-ing couples.
The church's teaching would make more sense if no birth control were allowed, including NFP.
And if one's intentions are "wrong" regardless of the method, what does it matter which method one uses? (I'm not talking about abortifacient methods, they're a different subject.)
Is the Catechism really that hard to understand for you?
i do not really understand either... but i try to trust the bishops
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