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Short Sighted Patron Saint for Contraception

John Paul I (+1978) is scheduled to be “beatified” by Francis in September. Already John Paul II made him a “servant of God.”

In an audio document recorded in a parish church in 1968, then Bishop of Vittorio Veneto Albino Luciani, pronounce the wish that Paul VI might “allow” the use of the contraceptive pill.

FaroDiRoma.it (June 4) calls this immoral and short sighted request a “great moral and doctrinal openness” which makes him “a forerunner of Francis.”

After Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae vitae, Luciani simply went along with the party line, an example how truth was turned into a victim of command and counter-command.

Since the introduction of contraception, Italy’s fertility rate dropped from 2,5 (1968) to currently 1,3. The replacement rate is at 2,1 children. Accordingly, young people have almost totally disappeared in the pews of Italian churches.

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Hound of Heaven

However, Archbishop Fulton Sheen doesn't meet this pontificate's criteria for beatification. "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore...."

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Jeffrey Ade

Poor JP 1 he was only a place keeper!

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Aaron-Jozef

Anticonceptie vernietigt de westerse samenleving en de Rooms Katholieke kerk van na het Tweede Vaticaanse Concilie is hier de schuld van.

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Hound of Heaven

Pope JP I wrote a letter to Pinocchio about the angst of adolescence; sadly he appears to have totally missed Collodi's point about the importance of telling the truth. Artificial birth control has been part of the 'Big Lie' since its very beginnings. Perhaps Pinocchio should be canonized instead.

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James A Mitchell

Sadly, we now know that all forms of hormonal "birth control" can also act as abortifacients when used as prescribed to prevent pregnancy. IUDs also seem to be abortifacients. Abortifacient Brief: The Birth Control Pill

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John A Cassani

I’m sure that you are not trying to justify contraception, but this comment could be construed as such. Abortifacients are bad by reason of their object, “intrinsically evil,” so to speak. Contraception, at least theoretically, can be used to prevent conception in a case of rape, if there is certainty that the victim hasn’t ovulated, but there is no other case when it is not a horrible sin. One breaks the 5th Commandment, the other the 6th, but both are bad.

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James A Mitchell

I am sure you are not trying to justify fornication or adultery, but your comment could be taken to imply that those acts are not morally objectionable so long as the couple isn't using contraception. (Any comment could be construed wrongly by someone looking for excuses to sin. No single short comment could say all things which could be said on a topic and closely related topics so comprehensively that no one could possibly twist the language to mean something else.) Also, abortifacients should NOT be used for the purpose of preventing pregnancy at any time (even though there are legitimate therapeutic reasons to use those drugs if a woman is NOT having sexual relations with anyone).

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De Profundis

Der Novus-Ordo "Heilige"

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