tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post9040523213241003948..comments2024-01-16T19:31:28.762-05:00Comments on Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit: Jesuit’s ‘Centre Justice Et Foi’ Invites Gregory Baum To SpeakJoseph Frommhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16759274486679530625noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44918019052750220.post-7868841245491231162011-05-29T23:34:34.773-04:002011-05-29T23:34:34.773-04:00Contraception:Fatal to the Faith and to Eternal Li...Contraception:Fatal to the Faith and to Eternal Life<br /><br />by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.<br /><br /><br />We affirm in this article that the deliberate practice of contraception between husband and wife is objectively a mortal sin. Those who persist in its practice are acting contrary to the explicit teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. They may protest that they are Catholic. They may profess to be Catholics. But their conduct belies their profession.<br /><br />Someone may object that we are living in a contraceptive society. Moreover, the silence of so many bishops and the overt teaching of so many nominally Catholic moralists defending contraception forbids our saying that contraception and the Catholic faith are incompatible.<br /><br />In the light of all the foregoing, let me address myself to the following topics which collectively prove the underlying thesis of this article.<br /><br />The Catholic Church teaches infallible doctrine, both in faith and morals.<br /><br /><br />This infallible teaching is done by the Church's extraordinary and by her ordinary universal authority or magisterium.<br /><br /><br />The grave sinfulness of contraception is taught infallibly by the Church's ordinary universal teaching authority.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, those who defend contraception forfeit their claim to being professed Catholics.<br /><br /><br />Consequently, those who persist in their defense of contraception, deprive themselves of the divine graces which are reserved to bona fide members of the Roman Catholic Church.<br /><br />What have been the consequences of contraception in one once-civilized nation after another?<br /><br />They have been myriad. But I would give especially seven, which may be listed in sequence.<br /><br />Fornication; <br />Adultery; <br />Sterilization; <br />Homosexuality; <br />AIDS; <br />Breakdown of the family; and <br />Murder of the unborn. <br /><br />Always nice to know the clergy are helping us along...Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704944620839677383noreply@blogger.com