I am beyond tired of the world's obsession and preoccupation with sex. People act like they can't live without it and subject themselves to animalistic, instinctive behavior for its sake. I am not a prude, but this is just flat ridiculous.

God's intervention and strength is needed for people to learn how to possess their vessels in sanctification and honour (I Thessalonians 4:4). Most cannot or will not do that over a life time, so they should marry in order to avoid fornication (I Corinthians 7:2).

There is also the biblical account of Judah's son, Onan, who spilled his seed on the ground in order to prevent conception with his dead brother's widow whom he had taken as his wife (Gen 38:6-10).

Planned Parenthood is the mouth of hell by which the damned and the ignorant are devoured.

Neil wrote:
“the married couple rightly use a faculty provided them by nature…�

But here's the problem: One cannot infer a moral principle from anything in nature. God provides all sorts of things in nature which can be used for good or ill. How are we to tell, from nature alone, whether the infertile period is meant as a conjugal opportunity?

Catholic Natural Law is a fiction.
And if the *intention* of family planning is to prevent conception, then why should it matter ethically what the means are? Is it OK if I kill you provided I use only my “natural faculties� (bare hands) to do so?

If the "rhythm method" is sactioned by the RCC to prevent conception without violating the commandment "Thou shalt not kill"; what about the principal Jesus established in the following verse....

Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The intent of the heart is still the intent of the heart (prevention of conception) regardless of the time of the month.

The RCC's claim to hold some moral high ground in this regard is hypocricy.

Anyhow, Catholic family planning is described in Humanæ Vitaæ:

“the Church teaches that married people may then take advantage of the natural cycles immanent in the reproductive system and engage in marital intercourse only during those times that are infertile, thus controlling birth in a way which does not in the least offend the moral principle…“

“the married couple rightly use a faculty provided them by nature…�

But here's the problem: One cannot infer a moral principle from anything in nature. God provides all sorts of things in nature which can be used for good or ill. How are we to tell, from nature alone, whether the infertile period is meant as a conjugal opportunity? Catholic Natural Law is a fiction.

seems she might have been another lost philanthropist.

If I am mistaken, please show me.

as for Mass -- if a priest is trying to bring you a newly sacrificed Christ, why would you recieve it? Am I missing something?

natural family planning is only discovering and learning how the human body works (there is much we do not know because we are taught darwins perspective of the body, a highly segmented, unrelational understanding of life) -- this would be highly beneficial to evangelicals if taught in a biblical fashion, as opposed to abortifacients.

John Yurich USA wrote:
Naturally Evangelical Protestants would disagree with Mother Teresa on the basis that she was Catholic. And Evangelical Protestants believe that every Catholic doctrine is of Satan and that there are no scriptural Catholic doctrines. Which is totally false. There are scriptural Catholic doctrines and scriptural parts to the Mass. To state that there are no scriptural Catholic doctrines and no scriptural parts to the Mass flies in the face of the facts.

PP - angel of light wrote:
"I know that couples have to plan their family and for that there is natural family planning. The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self. This turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gifts of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily."
-Mother Teresa