Originally posted by ivanhoe
The Church looks upon the practise of abortion and unnatural ways of contraception as damaging to people. You cannot expect the Church to change these views just to increase the numbers of Roman-Catholics. ... the Church is not a political party, which aim is to please a certain segment of voters in their short sighted, self-serving needs.
You have never said truer words, Ivanhoe.
However, one of the disingenuous aspects of the Church is its tacit acceptance
of contraception, especially in the wealthy American churches. That is, we
know
for a certainty that some 95% of
active Roman Catholics are utilizing (artificial)
contraception. And despite the fact that the Church considers this to be a
sin against nature, there are very few sermons regarding the issue, and
Roman Catholics are not discouraged from participating Sacramentally even
while knowingly and willingly sinning against the God (according to the Church).
That is: the Church teaches that participating in Communion while not in a
state of grace is bad for one's soul. And yet the Church is nearly silent to
its (wealthy) American parishioners who are damaging their soul not only
by using contraception, but by coming to the Table of the Lord after having
done so.
Other than greed, how do you explain this?
Nemesio