Go ahead and mandate (again) that no Catholics who use contraception that they are forbidden from receiving Communion. 90% of them would leave the Church.
That's one of the
very first things I would do, if I were Pope (or even a bishop or a priest).
Let them go.I hope everyone here realizes that, in allowing people to engage in what is, arguably, a sodomitical (or quasi-sodomitical) practice, is the tail wagging the dog, the kids telling the parents what to do, the inmates in charge of the asylum.
Never heard of a religion operating like that before. Would the Jehovah's Witnesses just "let it slide" and never mention it, if 92% of their adherents received blood transfusions? Mormons drinking alcohol, coffee, and tea? Muslims eating pork? Or to kick it up a notch, Unitarians being racists?
Again,
let them go. In the objective order, they're damned anyway. Contraception is a sin of the flesh, and all sins of the flesh are objectively mortal. It is not the kind of sin you commit while not in possession of your free will and your intellect.
It's entirely deliberate. No one ever ran off the the gynecologist for a prescription, took it to the drugstore, or went in and bought condoms while out of their minds in paroxysms of passion and fury. (If a couple "freaked out" at the last split-second and spontaneously practiced
coitus interruptus --- "we can't take the chance of having another child, we can't feed the ones we have now as it is" --- that could be an act of less than full consent of the will, but that's about it.)
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