Catholic Church Birth Control Research Paper
The Catholic Church and Birth Control
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“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” This is a quote from a speech given by Pope Paul VI back in 1965, just five years after the FDA approves “the pill” as a form of birth control. In this paper I am going to explore why the Catholic Church so deeply opposes the use of contraceptives. Also, I want to try to dissect why many Catholic’s still use birth control despite the fact that the Pope has publically denounced the use of any form, regarding it as a sin. And finally, I will look at how the Catholic Church has maintained …show more content…
This caused the Catholic Church to send out a letter to be read in all parishes, it stated, “We cannot--we will not--comply with this unjust law.” The church is in many ways ignoring the elephant in the room, with many studies that have shown that Catholic women do in fact use birth control. There seems to be a large disconnect between the Vatican and its followers, with this divide being so obvious how then does the church remain so powerful through out the world?
With the birth control debate, the church seems to be loud and their people seem to be silent. How does the church keep this base if it doesn’t listen to the needs of its people? The Catholic Church has some how been able to remain relevant to their follower despite the fact that they have not modernized their beliefs like many other religious groups. The only way I can make sense of it all would be that their love of the Catholic tradition runs deeper than their opposition to some of the beliefs of those in
RE307 DL
“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” This is a quote from a speech given by Pope Paul VI back in 1965, just five years after the FDA approves “the pill” as a form of birth control. In this paper I am going to explore why the Catholic Church so deeply opposes the use of contraceptives. Also, I want to try to dissect why many Catholic’s still use birth control despite the fact that the Pope has publically denounced the use of any form, regarding it as a sin. And finally, I will look at how the Catholic Church has maintained …show more content…
This caused the Catholic Church to send out a letter to be read in all parishes, it stated, “We cannot--we will not--comply with this unjust law.” The church is in many ways ignoring the elephant in the room, with many studies that have shown that Catholic women do in fact use birth control. There seems to be a large disconnect between the Vatican and its followers, with this divide being so obvious how then does the church remain so powerful through out the world?
With the birth control debate, the church seems to be loud and their people seem to be silent. How does the church keep this base if it doesn’t listen to the needs of its people? The Catholic Church has some how been able to remain relevant to their follower despite the fact that they have not modernized their beliefs like many other religious groups. The only way I can make sense of it all would be that their love of the Catholic tradition runs deeper than their opposition to some of the beliefs of those in