“. . . about 90 percent of the nation’s Roman Catholics ignore their church’s teaching on contraception.”
Tim Townsend, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Earlier this month, the order of American Catholic Bishops held a conference for the purpose of, among other things, to reexamining the Church’s position on birth control.
Almost unanimously the Bishops reaffirmed their position, which is, and has always been, the following: Artificial contraception is a mortal sin.
“Artificial” contraception, incidentally, is birth control by means of abortion, condom, vasectomy (and other forms of sterilization), intrauterine devices, the pill and even premature withdrawal.
Of course, it didn’t matter to the bishops when they voted (nor should it have) that 90 percent of American Catholics ignore the Church’s position on birth control, or at least that’s what some polls say (scarce though they be).
