What are the catholic beliefs?
Divorce — Generally, no, you can’t get divorced unless you need to physically protect yourself and your kids. Matrimony is a Sacrament for Catholics, an unbreakable bond between man, woman and God. The good news is that the Catholic Church spends a lot more time preparing people for marriage so that they have a better chance of staying together happily. They also have other programs for married couples to help them stay together. Birth control — You’re right. We can’t use it. We believe that the ability to procreate is one of the ways in which God made us in His image, so anything that destroys that ability is a sin (and an insult to Him). However, that does NOT mean you have to have more kids than you can afford to feed, clothe, shelter, education and love. God in His wisdom made women cyclical. We can’t get pregnant every day of the month, just when we are ovulating. Scientists and Catholic researchers have for years been studying female ovulatory patterns, and now there are severa
Little girls do not grow up dreaming of hopping from bed to bed and contraception. They dream of a man who will sweep them off their feet and love them forever, and of having his many children. A cynicism born of the sexual revolution has brought emptiness to the hearts, wombs and lives of far too many modern women. This emptiness and pain can be avoided or redeemed and healed by the love of Christ and adherence to His teachings. The Catholic Church believes in such dreams because God wrote them on the human heart. And there are men who long for such a woman to love and cherish. Real lovers want to give without reserve in God’s own superabundance creating more hearts and lives to love. Contraception is like kissing through a screen door and real love cannot tolerate obstacles. Contraception breeds selfishness and separation that drives a wedge between husband and wife that kills love. Real lovers want their love to explode into the posterity of future generations for all eternity. This
