At 09:11 PM 11/8/2002 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
> I do not know a single Catholic who uses any form of birth
>control other than "The Pill"
Well, its probably a small sample given the population size of Catholic
couples. I think that it would be very reasonable to say that there are
many hundreds of thousands, if not a couple million couples practicing NFP
in the US today.
>And this includes people who one would
>describe in all other ways as "devout".
Well failing to be obedient to a Church teaching that has been made with
such clarity, and without grave moral reason, would consitute a very
important exception to being "devout".
>So I think you need some extra adjective in front of catholic for Johns
>statement to be more accurate. But what John says is true in a dogmatic sort
>of way.
In other words, I think that what is actually needed is an alternative word
to "devout" to describe Catholics who have a very strong spiritual life,
but don't actually follow the precepts of the religion.
JDG
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