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    Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience
    Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience
    Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience
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    Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience

    By Philip St. Romain

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    The Catholic Church teaches that all forms of artificial birth control are intrinsically evil — wrong in all circumstances! Only practices that make use of natural methods of avoiding pregnancy are considered acceptable for Catholic couples. The Church also has extensive teaching on the importance of conscience, its formation, and the obligation to act according to conscience.

    This work explores possible interactions between conscience and the teachings on birth control by first examining what we mean by conscience, and how it is properly formed. We then reflect on how moral decision-making is more than simply pronouncing acts good or evil in themselves — that intention and circumstance must be considered as well. Through the process of prayer, study, reflection, and dialogue, couples can come to clarity in conscience concerning what is best for their marriage and family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateFeb 28, 2023
    ISBN9781312888227
    Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience
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    Philip St. Romain

    Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min., has published over 20 books on spirituality and theology. He has served as a spiritual director for many people during the past 25 years, and currently ministers at Heartland Center for Spirituality in Great Bend, KS.

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      Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience - Philip St. Romain

      Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience

      by Philip St. Romain

      Copyright 2023: Philip St. Romain

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-312-88957-7

      Published by Lulu.com for

      Contemplative Ministries, Inc., Wichita, KS

      Table of Contents

      Birth Control and the Catholic Conscience

      Introduction

      1. What is Conscience?

      2. Conscience and the Superego

      3. Steps to Forming Conscience

      4. The Issue of Intrinsically Evil Acts

      5. The Three Fonts of Morality and Conscience Formation

      6. A Few Common Questions

      Summary

      Acknowledgement and Bio

      Introduction

      Sometime during the summer of 1993 I received a call from the editor of the newspaper for the Catholic Diocese of Wichita, where I was serving as Family Life Coordinator at the time. That year was the 25th anniversary of Humane Vitae, the encyclical by St. (Pope) Paul VI on human life and best known, perhaps, for its teaching that only natural methods of spacing children were approved by the Church¹. Contraceptive methods like birth control pills and barrier strategies like condoms and diaphragms were considered unacceptable and immoral. The editor was highlighting this anniversary with several articles and wondered if I’d look over one sent to him on Natural Family Planning, also known as NFP. I do not recall if it had been written by someone in our diocese, or was a syndicated piece he was considering, but he was clearly ambivalent about publishing it and the bishop had suggested he run it by me to see what I thought. He either faxed it or delivered it (life before the Internet and email!) and within an hour I had the article.

      The piece was written by someone who was obviously knowledgeable of NFP and had experience with both living and teaching the practice. It explained in detail ways to detect when a woman of child-bearing age is in the fertile time during her monthly cycle and when she is not. This knowledge can help couples either enhance or avoid the likelihood of pregnancy, depending on where they are in their discernment about the timing of children, which Humane Vitae affirmed as legitimate². All fine and well, including an engaging writing style, until the end of the article, when the author stated that NFP was God’s gift to the human race to help in family planning, and Catholic couples who knowingly chose to reject NFP in favor of contraceptive approaches were guilty of serious sin and were being selfish with their sexuality. Those were the statements that bothered the

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