Catholic Bishops Promote 'Natural' Family Planning Amid Battle Over Contraception Mandate

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(RNS) Amid a battle with President Obama over a new contraception mandate, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are promoting "natural" family planning -- but will their flock take heed?

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The birth control ban was codified in Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, "On Human Life." The Catholic Church continues to strive -- mostly alone. It stands as the only major religious denomination in the nation to oppose what it considers "artificial" contraception.

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Humanae Vitae inspires Bethany Meola, 27, who works in Washington, D.C., for the USCCB committee headed by Rhoades. Married a little more than a year ago, Meola and her husband practice natural family planning and are open about their hopes that it will help them conceive.

"The act that unites my husband and me in an incomparably intimate way is also the act through which we will welcome a child into our family, God willing, and become father and mother together. In other words, practicing NFP has helped us to grow in awe and wonder at the amazing gift and power of our sexuality."

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[2ndAmForComputers]

1. Those ghouls are OK with contraception as long as it has an error rate of at least 30%.

Can't compromise the production of... nah, I'll stop here. You know what I'm talking about.

[dimbear]

2. It's a simple math calculation. A birth control pill every day or every so often is a lot of sins.

An abortion is only one sin.

[skepticscott]

3. It really is scary

that we're surrounded by so many people whose thinking is totally programmed.

[rexcat]

4. It would seem a large majority of women...

in the catholic church ignore the church teachings on contraception. Unfortunatly there are some who must obey. It would not be so bad but the environmental impact of American childern on the environment is much more than anywhere else in the world, let alone the cost of rearing kids today.