[Apologetics] RE: Artificial Birth Control is Sinful

[Art Kelly]

Stuart,

Please read Pope Paul VI's encyclical HUMANAE VITAE on
the Vatical website at
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
or on the EWTN website at
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P6HUMANA.HTM

Art

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jim Murphy wrote:
> 
> > out of this little problem. Last time I looked
> only about 4-7% of your
> > members follow the church teaching on the issue of
> birth control. Why
> > not excommunicate the whole bunch.  A few Sundays
> from now just have them
> 
> There is a huge difference in gravity between the
> sin of abortion and
> and the sin of (non-abortifacient) birth control. 
> Abortion is
> clearly a mortal sin (especially for the
> butch^H^H^H^H^Hdoctor).  I would like
> to see your case that birth control is a mortal sin.
>  Obviously, it
> leads to sexual immorality and abortion down the
> road, just as unchecked
> anger will eventually lead to murder.  But that
> doesn't make it a mortal
> sin.
> 
> -- 
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