My latest podcast episode addresses the Catholic Church's teaching on the use of artificial contraception. This is my longest and most detailed episode yet. It clocks in at just under an hour. I used the Church's many official documents and statements regarding contraception as my sources to investigate the Church's official teaching on the matter. You can get it on Itunes. Just search in the Itunes store for Catholic Champion. Enjoy.
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If what you are saying is true, then why did the catholic church and your high and mighty pope request a study be done on condom use and AIDS? This is another example of why the catholic church's idea of infallibility means nothing.
Dan
I disagree. If you read the documents there is no question on what the Church teaches. All the study does is once again reaffirm the timeless teaching of the Church. I think your conclusion is erroneous.
I think that your conclusion is erroneous. It shouldn't take a genius to understand that if the church teaches something infallibly, but then goes ahead and studies the issue of allowing what had been before "infallibly" prohibited, then either the church doesn't infallibly teach against condom use, or the church doesn't believe in it's own infallibility. Deal with that.
There is nothing to deal with. You are using a logical fallacy. By your reasoning, once the Church defines a teaching she can no longer write documents on the subject elaborating further on the subject? That is nonsense. The Eucharist has been defined for years and the church still writes encyclicals and many other documents on the subject. Sorry, your argument is weak, and I don't buy it.
The fact is, your own Protestant forefathers did not interpret the Scriptures like you do today. Luther, Calvin and the like would be sickened by your wholesale acceptance of the use of contraception. Deal with that.
Why don't you get some of your Protestant apologists to come out of their hole and deal with this subject, instead of running from it. I don't see James White, James Swan, or Turretin fan rushing to address the subject. I have put it out on the blog forums many times, yet they all avoid it every time. the fact is you have no argument. Protestants today clearly support the sin of Onan. You change your doctrines on the whims of man's selfish desires. The fact is Protestantism today is just a mere shadow of what it once was.
"You are using a logical fallacy. By your reasoning, once the Church defines a teaching she can no longer write documents on the subject elaborating further on the subject?"
That's not what the Catholic church did and you know it. The Catholic church didn't set out to do a further defense and elaboration of its teachings against condoms. The church set out with the intention to potentially permit the use of condoms. Maybe Benedict didn't receive the infallible memo that already proclaimed the use of condoms to be intrinsically evil, or maybe the church's infallible teachings really aren't, or maybe the church hasn't taught 'infallibly' on the use of condoms. Again, so much for catholic infallibility.
Dan
Yes they did. Did you read the report? If you did then you would know that you are incorrect. The Church always releases documents on various teachings of the Church that deal with modern cultural issues. It has nothing to do with whether it is a definitive teaching or not. You are doing a good job of killing a straw man here, nothing more.
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