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A brand new, reprinted, and improved booklet covering the moral problems and dangers of the Rhythm method, or what is known today as 'Natural Family Planning'.
Description:
Written by a catholic mother of a large family many decades ago, this booklet's purpose is simply this:
"This book will seek to prove beyond a doubt that the consequences of the Rhythm Mentality (i.e. Natural Family Planning or NFP) are contrary to the Christian moral code. Therefore NFP is definitely an error which is being propagated within Christ's own Church, much as was Arianism.
This book is meant to inform the pastors of souls about certain facts concerning the nature of woman, and to remind everyone reading this about God the Father and His loving, Providential care for his children. I wish to encourage married couples to invoke the love of the Holy Ghost so that they may find Divine solutions to their problems, and not resort to the "false science" of this rebellious age."
This 3rd printing also includes a 1940 letter from the Archbishop of St Paul, MN condemning NFP.
Softback booklet. 81 pages. Publication date 2017. |
Apart from the question of morality, there is the question of understanding the terminology. There is no reason to equate "Rhythm mentality" with NFP. They have different meanings.
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NFP can be used in a Catholic way, respecting the wonder and joy of creation, and knowing how our bodies function, and in an anti-God way, that is not trusting in God's providence, and using our knowledge to avoid conceiving a child .
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But NFP can be useful for those couples who have trouble in conceiving a child, and these are not rare in our age.
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