Category Archives: Spiritual
Contraception: Why Not? (part 20)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Responsible Parenthood The Church doesn’t teach that you have to have as many children as your body can bear. This picture is of the little old woman … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 19)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Impediment to Total Self-Giving John Paul II maintained that contraception is an impediment to total self-giving. He maintained that it is a contradiction to say “I love … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 18)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: The Magic of Sexual Attraction There is some really good news for the ladies. Here we have an article that reports: They say female chemical messengers, known … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 17)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Elle: Sexual Chemistry This blurb from Elle, a woman’s fashion magazine, advises that “For years Prozac and the Pill have given women emotional stability and sexual freedom, … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 16)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Monkeys and Contraception There is an amazing study reported from a book by a man named Lionel Tiger. Lionel Tiger is an anthropologist from Rutgers University who … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 15)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Dismissing Side Effects When the Pill was first discovered in the later 1950’s it was tested on women in Puerto Rico. And these are the reports that … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 14)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Reasons to Condemn Contraception: The Catholic Church condemns contraception because it is against nature, human nature. Human nature is complex. Certainly we are physical creatures and we … Continue reading
Contraception Intermission
As I stated in “Contraception Preamble“, I would provide my comments to this series of posts either as actual comments to each post or in a separate post. This is my third Contraception Intermission for the series “Contraception: Why Not?” by … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 13)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Catholics and Contraception In 1950, 66 percent of Catholics did not contracept. By about 1975 or so, Catholics were contracepting at the same rate as the rest … Continue reading
Contraception: Why Not? (part 12)
This post is part of a series by Professor Janet E. Smith. Slide: Humanae Vitae Humanae Vitae was issued in 1968. It is fair to say that it dropped on the world like a bomb. It marked the beginning of … Continue reading