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Natural Family Planning (NFP) recognizes and acknowledges the Sovereignty of God and the Natural Law.
-Fact: Contraception is an elective intervention that stops the
healthy functioning of healthy women's reproductive systems.
Fact: Pregnancy is not considered a disorder to be treated.
Fact and Opinion: Human life must be protected now whether everyone in society acknowledges it or not.
Fact and Opinion: Natural Family Planning (NFP) recognizes and acknowledges the sovereignty of God and the Natural Law.
Calling abortion a sin and or murder is not a "scare tactic" or "intimidation" but a work of charity. Educating in the virtues (and about NFP) and asking a person using artificial contraceptives to repent and obey the Natural Law (in a gentle and charitable manner) is a work of mercy.
Fact and Opinion: Overall, there is a great deal of evidence that "an increase in the use of artificial contraceptives in a society always leads to an increase in abortion in that society"
Fact and Opinion: Viewed overall, in a society, artificial contraceptive programs fail to reduce abortions - especially when viewed on a longer term time scale.
Fact and Opinion: Artificial Contraceptive programs when viewed long term in a society, sustain abortions for the long term - indefinitely
Fact and Opinion:Artificial contraceptives would probably work in reducing abortions if behaviour(s) or life styles also changed and became more virtuous. Use of artificial contraceptives do not promote chastity, self-control, or a virtuous life style.
Use of artificial contraceptives facilitates a liberal attitude and lifestyle and an erosion of the virtues.
This liberalization of attitude and behaviour is a process which can generalize into a kind of "contraceptive mentality"
whereby the individual acts or decides (even if unconsciously) that he or she is "like God" - he or she can decide (through abortion and euthanasia) who shall live and who shall die. The contraceptive mentality generalizes to such an extent that the person feels as though he or she has the freedom to do whatever they want to do. On freedom Saint Augustin says: "Love God and do what you want." In time as the "contraceptive mentality" becomes more prevalent, the whole of society and country could be destroyed. If the right to life can not be protected than no other right can be protected.
The person with a "contraceptive mentality" seeks to legitimize his or her "like God" status. The person seeks popular social and moral approval claiming to be "modern" "progressive" "inclusive" and to have "his or her reproductive health rights" - rights not given by God. The person with a contraceptive mentality supports governmental laws to legitimize his or her status as "the arbitrator of life." Artificial contraceptives often kill a person in his or her's first few moments or days of life. This aborted child, and innocent person (however young), was given life by God.
The person having an abortion is saying in effect "I have a better idea than God" - "I am the arbitriator of Life."
Man is not the arbitrator of life. Artificial Contraception or abortion is a violation of "sacred space." Abortion and Artificial Contraception are both sin
Teaching or promoting artificial contraceptives and knowing it's affects shows contempt for God. Abortion violates the law of love of brother and sister and violates the commandment "thou shall not kill."
Fact and Opinion: Use of artificial contraceptives, and the life-style it enables, sustain abortions for the long term - indefinitely.
Fact and Opinion: Use of contraceptives contribute to the financial profits of various industries. These industries ( various drug companies and abortion providers, Planned Parenthood, etc.)
in turn use some of their money to seek governmental mandates
for their contraceptive products and abortion services.
Fact: Overall, and long term, education in the virtues, and self-control is more effective in reducing abortions and AIDS..
Fact: Hormonal contraception has actually been associated with an increased risk of contracting AIDS - not reducing Aids.
Fact and Opinion: Personal choice? Indirect financial support for a government-run health plan that buys abortion coverage is not personal choice.
Government mandated - even indirect financial support - to abortion providers (like Planned Parenthood),
is contrary to personal choice and contrary to a well formed conscience.
Fact and Opinion: Proposed governmental legislation or mandate's on abortion and contraception violate rights of conscience and violate the Natural Law.
Fact and Opinion : Mandated by many states the "emergency contraception," has primarily an abortifacient effect. Abortion even within the first few hours or days of life is sin (Natural Law).
Fact and Opinion:Proposed legislation or governmental mandates on contraceptives and abortion undermine parental rights. Once contraception becomes a mandated health care to all,
physicians may be allowed to provide contraceptives to minors without parental consent.
Family: LETTER TO FAMILIES FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II Dear Families!
EVANGELIUM VITAE To the Bishops Priests and Deacons Men and Women religious lay Faithful and all People of Good Will on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life 1995.03.25
DIVINI ILLIUS MAGISTRI ON Christian EDUCATION
THE MOTION PICTURE VIGILANTI CURA
MOTU PROPRIO PRIMO FELICITER
ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS XII ON MOTION PICTURES, RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRANDA PRORSUS
SUMMI PONTIFICATUS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE UNITY OF HUMAN SOCIETY TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN: THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, BISHIOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE
MATER ET MAGISTRA CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS MAY 15, 1961
HUMANAE VITAE ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI ON THE REGULATION OF BIRTH JULY 25, 1968
POPULORUM PROGRESSIO ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PAUL VI ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES MARCH 26, 1967 To the Blshops, Priests, Religious, and Faithful of the Whole Catholic World, and to All Men of Good Will.
JOHN PAUL I TO A GROUP OF AMERICAN BISHOPS ON THEIR �AD LIMINA � VISIT Thursday, 21 September 1978
FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO THE EPISCOPATE TO THE CLERGY AND TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE WHOLE Catholic Church ON THE ROLE OF THE Christian family IN THE MODERN WORLD INTRODUCTION the Church at the Service of the Family
HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL
Pro-Life Missionaries To The World
Family VALUES VERSUS SAFE SEX A Reflection by His Eminence, ALFONSO CARDINAL L�PEZ TRUJILLO President, Pontifical Council for the Family December 1, 2003
Mother Teresa "It is a great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you might live as you wish."
Pope John Paul II "...God in His deepest mystery is not a solitude, but a family, since He has in Himself fatherhood, sonship, and the essence of the family, which is love..."Their is no such thing as a "pro-abortion" Catholic
Saint Ignatius of Antioch "...Make no mistake, brethren; the corrupters of families will not inherit the kingdom of God..."
Sacred Space. Some areas are proper to God and some areas are proper to man or angels. Man is not the arbitrator of life. Artificial Contraception or abortion is a violation of "sacred space". Sin of any kind, subverts and destroys unity. Sin can be the love of oneself, even to the contempt of truth; contempt of God. Sin has its primordial roots, ( it's echos ) in the disobedience of Adam and Eve ( Genesis 3:5 ) "you will be like God". Satan and the angels had violated "sacred space" and also suffered the consequences: "...6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home-these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day..." ( Jude 1:6 ). In part, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, and Genesis 4:1 are about the idea of "sacred space". Some areas are proper to man and some areas are proper to God. Man cooperates with God in procreating new life, but man is not the arbitrator of life. Couples should be open to the possibility of new life within marriage. In part, the fall of man in Genesis 3 is about disobedience; a violation of "sacred space". Their is one Truth. Truth is a matter of life and death - choose life! Truth is a person - Jesus Christ ( Jn. 14:6 ).
Genesis 1:26-28 ( NIV )
26 Then God said, "...Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it..."
Genesis 2:16-17 ( NASB )*
16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;
17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die."Genesis 4:1 ( NASB )* Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD."
John 7:37-38 ( NASB )
37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink."
38 "He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"
1 Timothy 6:12-14 ( NASB )
12 "...Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
14 that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ..."
Ephesians 5 ( Please read all of Ephesians 5: Be Imitators of God. Marriage like Christ and the Church)
* [In part, Genesis 2, Genesis 3, and Genesis 4:1 are about the idea of "sacred space". Some areas are proper to man and some areas are proper to God. Man cooperates with God in procreating new life, but man is not the arbitrator of life. Couples should be open to the possibility of new life within marriage. In part, the fall of man in Genesis 3 is about disobedience; a violation of "sacred space".]Five Covenant Families:
- One Holy Family
- Tribe
- Nation
- Kingdom
- Holy Church
I highly recommend you "A Course in the Theology of the Body: Naked Without Shame", 2nd Edition, by Christopher West. It is an excellent course on sex and the meaning of life as explained in "Theology of the Body" by Pope John Paul II. Please visit The Christopher West website. for additional information and to order this course.( TEV )
Song of Songs
The Third Song
1 How beautiful you are, my love!
How your eyes shine with love behind your veil.
Your hair dances like a flock of goats
bounding down the hills of Gilead.
The Song of Songs - God's Love for His People
Many thanks to Nicholas Marmalejo, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for his permission to publish this copyrighted article on my website.
From Celebrate Life Magazine, January/February 2002
Contraception is Anti-God
By Msgr. Vincent Foy
God had not called to immorality, but to holiness.
- St. Paul to the Thessalonians
Father John Hardon, S.J., was surely one of the greatest theologians of the last century. Toward the end of his life, he gave a lecture entitled, "Our greatest moral responsibility: to convert the contraceptive mentality." Artificial Contraception is Anti - God - A Culture of Death.
Many thanks to Elizabeth Daub, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for her permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.
From Celebrate Life Magazine, March/April 2002
Contraception is Anti-Church
By Msgr. Vincent Foy
The Catholic Church has been described as the continuation of the salvific mission of Christ to the world. Vatican II tells us, "The Church has the duty by divine mandate of going out into the whole world and preaching the Gospel to all men," and goes on to underscore the work of evangelization as the fundamental duty of the people of God in saying: "Let all realize that their first and most important obligation toward the spread of the Faith is this: to lead a profoundly Christian life" ( Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church n. 30 ). Artificial Contraception is a Sin - Harmful to Civilization
Many thanks to Elizabeth Daub, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for her permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.
From Celebrate Life Magazine, September/October, 2002
Contraception is Anti-Spousal
By Msgr. Vincent Foy
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that marriage is "by its very nature ordered to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring" ( n. 1601 ). Since it is ordered to the good of the spouses, it can and should be a means to help them pursue together their glorious call to holiness. Artificial Contraception is Harmful to the Foundations of Society
Many thanks to Elizabeth Daub, Editor of Celebrate Life magazine, for her permission to publish this copyrighted article on my web site.
From Celebrate Life Magazine, November/December 2002
GUIDANCE
Contraception is Anti-Self
By Msgr. Vincent Foy
By our nature we have an inescapable love of ourselves. But because God is love and we are conceived in and for love, God has decreed that true love of self cannot exist without love of others. So we have the paradox that the more we love God and others, to that degree do we truly love ourselves. Artificial Contraception is not Biblical - Harmful to Self and Marriage