Catholic Church: Sex only for procreation

if that were true, wouldn't they be allowed to use contraception?

seems so...however...if you read the catechism, it makes a distinction....that is from the vatican website...here is the full text of that section:

2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.158 These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:159


Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.160

the distinction is that the natural method still allows for the "possibility" of life, whereas man made contraception does not

it doesn't make that much sense to me....but that is the catholic ruling on sex, you can have sex not for procreation, so long as it is natural "regulation"...they even give footnotes to support their belief

since modbert claimed i am dishonest about this post...

i will give him the chance to show how i am dishonest

thats what i thought....run away from your claims modbert...you're good at it
 
Modbert was correct whether it is written somewhere or not. Sex is only for procreation to Catholics.
 
Modbert was correct whether it is written somewhere or not. Sex is only for procreation to Catholics.

lmao....so the actual authority, the catholic church, doesn't matter to ravi and modbert....

you both are right because you say so, screw what the actual church says

:cuckoo:
 

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