Contraception, is it okay ever?

August 23, 2007

#20

johnchan wrote:

ok if 1) within a marriage 2) circumstances in the couple's life are prohibitive toward having a child - best determined under the guidance of a spiritual father 3) the method of contraceptive used is the kind that prevents fertilization rather than one that terminates the viability of a fertilized egg from being born.

\'Married people should not only avoid contraception, but also \'planning\' the children. They should leave themselves with trustfulness in the hands of God and consider the coming of each child a great gift, godly gift. Children are not sweet breads so that we order them up in the bakery whenever as we want them! And it should not escape as for a moment that man, upon having children, becomes a co-creator with God.\'

-Holy Father Epiphanios Theodorpoulos

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