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To: Keith Feral who wrote (150352)	11/1/2004 9:59:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Catholics can practice "Billings method" which requires the woman to keep track of her ovulatory cycle, and can have sex during "safe" times. This is actually quite successful if you follow it, er, religously. Success rate is about 99%. No drugs, no condoms, no sticky foams.

To: Keith Feral who wrote (150352)	11/2/2004 5:22:20 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

Tough to imagine that contraception has never been accepted by the Catholic Church. Perhaps you should ask your friends the question specifically, because it most certainly is an issue for Catholics the world over - not just for those following some strange version of "radical Catholicism" in a far off land. Note that I also qualified the issue more exactly - "artificial" contraception is a sin according to doctrine. The only form of "birth control" acceptable within the Catholic faith is the "rhythm method" or what they now call "Natural Family Planning". Do any Catholics use artificial methods? Or at least want to? Sure. But that doesn't make it any less of a sin in the eyes of the church. "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" There is a reason why Catholics tend to have larger families, even if that trend is slowing due to "modernism".