“Neither the Church nor her doctrine is inconsistent when
she considers it lawful for married people to take advantage of the infertile
period but condemns as always unlawful the use of means which directly prevent
conception […]. In reality, these two cases are completely different.” (Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae 16)
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the encyclical in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's teaching regarding openness to life within marriage and condemned as always immoral the use of any form of contraception, following the request of the US Bishops, we will be preaching two sermons this week and next on marriage and family life, and chastity within marital intimacy.
This sermons explains the difference between Natural Family Planning and contraception, showing that the two are "completely different" and that NFP is not in any way "Catholic Contraception" but is in accord with the nature of marriage, the nature of marital intimacy, and the nature of the human person.
Listen online [here]!
