Sentences with phrase «contraceptive mentality»

Yet in our times this institution has been gravely weakened by the sexual revolution and the damage it has done to marriage and the family: widespread divorce; the dramatic increase in out - of - wedlock births; the casual acceptance of premarital sex and cohabitation; and a contraceptive mentality which insists that sex has an arbitrary relation to procreation.

As a result, he reports, he has freed up more family resources for his daughter, prevented the conversation at home from being dominated by kids, and generally found it easier to be a parent, all out of a spirit of generosity for the planet (and not the selfishness of the contraceptive mentality).

However, our purpose here is not to consider divorce but rather to reflect on how the contraceptive mentality has spread also among Catholics.

This is certainly true of the prevalent contraceptive mentality, which has undercut the link between the unitive and procreative significance of married love and encouraged technical developments that have opened the door to human reproduction devoid of anysuch meaning.

Clearly you need to do some more reading on what the contraceptive mentality is and how it distorts our views on babies, and how even the Supreme Court has described abortion as a fall - back when contraceptives fail (which they do).

(p. 499) Specifically, it confronts the Church's fumbling response to the contraceptive mentality of our culture.

We're all repressing our contraceptive mentality.

But the natural consequences of our culture's contraceptive mentality are clear.

But the joy of these families, whether or not they bear many children, disproves the claims of the contraceptive mentality.

But when heterosexual persons fragment the unitive aspect, they are simultaneously arbitrating against the procreative element, using contraception, or at least a contraceptive mentality, or abortion.

Many worry about their own «sexual orientation» especially in a culture saturated with pornographic images and obsessed with discussions which assume a contraceptive mentality in which sex and procreation are wholly separated.

Cohabitation and a contraceptive mentality reflect a private indifference to the goods of marriage.