Today is the 40th birthday of Humanae Vitae.
Do you think it has been a positivre or negative document? Has it harmed the Church or not?
If anyone is out there, please let me know what you think.
God bless,
Noelfitz.
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I believe there is possibly a huge number of damned Catholics because of this teaching. The yoke is very heavy to bear for a lot of people. Many have simply given up on the Church altogether.
Hi Noel:
Thanks for the new topic.
Humanae Vitae, to me ...like God... just IS. It has been the attitude of us to whom it was addressed that has been positive or negative. In some circles it is certainly ill-received. Some of that may be attributable to misunderstanding, some to poor catechesis (considering the era into which it was released), and some, certainly, to disobedience.
"Has it harmed the Church or not?" I don't think that the Church has been harmed any more by it than the dogma of papal infallibility from Vatican I, or any other Church pronouncement that met with resistance. It is the people who reject its wisdom who have been hurt, I think. Sure people have left the Church because of it, but people left Christ when he said "Eat my Body."
What do you think?
In Christ,
Michael
Z knowledge of the truth is not a burden. It is true freedom. It is when people choose to or desire to sin that God's desire ( aka law) becomes a burden to them. The bible quote you basterdized is one that points out that following christ is never a burden. If believing what is taught is to follow christ then it is an easy yoke.
The real problem is the attitude that children are a burden rather then a treasure. The idea that ones fertility should be feared rather then cherised and revealed in as a gift from God.
There seems to be only four of us here, Z, Fishman, Loretta and myself.
I am grateful for the replies. I would like to see myself as an ordinary Catholic, faithful to the Church.
I note what Z wrote:
"I believe there is possibly a huge number of damned Catholics because of this teaching."
Over the years I have raised this fear.
Millions of Catholics are apparently living in sin and are heading towards hell. Included may be those who reject the Church's teaching on contraception, those whio are in "ambiguous" living arrangements, those who miss Mass on Sundays without a good reason, those who receive communion without confession etc. etc..
As I have written before, we all have to hope for God's mercy.
God bless,
Noelfitz.
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IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS, IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS, IN OMNIBUS CARITAS.
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