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- Jun 24, 2025
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They say parents are less happy, but this contradicts that. I don't think I like this encyclical, but I guess "Dont run from suffering, embrace it." And so many other versesThe very serious duty of transmitting human life...has always been for them a source of great joys—joys, however, sometimes accompanied by much difficulty and distress.
This encyclical feels insufficiently natalist.Today, moreover, conditions of work and of housing as well as increased demands both in the economic field and in the field of education, often make the adequate support of a large number of children difficult.
This term sounds like Planned ParenthoodResponsible Parenthood
What a concession. At least it's logically against a one-child policy. This encyclical seems to go against The Bible which says children are a gift and therefore something that should be desired perhaps even in large quantities. And many other things.ponsible parenthood is exercised either by the well-thought-out and generous decision to raise a large family, or by the decision, made for grave motives* and with respect for the moral law, to avoid a new birth for the time being, or even for an indeterminate period.
Don't have sex if you have grave reasons(previous quote) yet NFP is okay.[E]ach and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life.
This is so contradictory.Also to be excluded, as the Magisterium of the Church has on a number of occasions declared, is direct sterilization, whether perpetual or temporary, whether of the man or of the woman.
This is against oral sex I guess.Similarly excluded is every action that, either in anticipation of the conjugal act or in its accomplishment or in the development of its natural consequences, would have as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible.
Contraception is never okay.Consequently, it is an error to think that a conjugal act which is deliberately made infertile and so is intrinsically wrong could be made right by a fertile conjugal life considered as a whole.
If, then, there are serious motives* for spacing births, motives deriving from the physical or psychological conditions of husband or wife, or from external circumstances, the Church teaches that it is then permissible to take into account the natural rhythms
One does not need much experience to know human weakness and to understand that human beings—especially the young, who are so vulnerable on this point—have need of encouragement to be faithful to the moral law, and must not be offered an easy means to evade its observance.
The teaching of the Church on birth regulation, which is a promulgation of the divine law, will easily appear to many to be difficult or even impossible to put into practice.