----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 10:08 PM Subject: Re: Contraception and Wedding Nights Re: science Vs religion
> 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. LOL.....Catholics *I* know vs. all other American Catholics. <G> > > >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". Hey, its only one teaching that regularly gets ignored. But actually I am refering to their behavior otherwise. > > >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. > Most American Catholics think the Pope is dead wrong about birth control. Its been an issue for about 30 or 40 years, an issue that the Church ignores, hoping it will go away. Pedophilia didnt go away either. xponent Former Altar Boy Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
