I really think that this question is too important to not be addressed by a Catholic priest! You don’t want to live in sin or do something that is against God and His Church. I think you should ask a higher up or even your bishop if you can get an audience with him.
I invite you to read about Saint Gianna. She was a great Catholic saint against abortion. Truly, a saint for these evil times! When faced with a pregnancy that was dangerous Saint Gianna had to make a choice between herself and her child. She selflessly chose the child to live and to die making her a great saint and miracle worker. Should you selflessly forgo the sexual act in your marriage? A great question for your priest or bishop.
God bless you & I will be praying for your family to live like saints.
I was illustrating a point about the differences between force and non-force. No one wants to do anything to your Wife. It was a hypothetical.
I’m not claiming to be a man (I mean, I am a man, but if this is your definition of a man, I am not a man). I believe rąpe is the worst think one could ever do to another human being.
How am I a coward (besides that I’m not meeting you by the bike-rack and fighting you after school)? And a liar? What have I lied about?
Put your guns away sir, and use your rational intellect (which is a gift from God). It is what separates us from animals.
My family are carriers of a blood disorder. Years ago (when my sisters and I were having children), none of us were yet diagnosed. One sister had six miscarriages. She was given “clotting factor” (unsure what this was) and finally carried one child to term. She required a hysterectomy a month later. I had two children and had very unpredictable bleeding during both, and required a hysterectomy two months after giving birth after the second child. We were told after the first baby that I should have a tubal ligation—by the nun who was the chaplain in the hospital. The OB did not agree. Thank goodness. Blood disorders can be catastrophic but almost never are. I strongly urge you to get a consult with a hematologist. They have more experience with these things than most, but also, Do Your Own Research. Go onto Pubmed and search the name of the disorder and “childbearing.”
Did you not get my private message? I explained how after re-reading what I said, how I could see that it could be taken the wrong way (as it was). So I clarified what I meant. Please check your message inbox and you will see my private message to you clarifying what I meant. And I also fixed my post to clarify what I was trying to convey. If you need me to further clarify, I can.
And if you want to ask me directly what I meant, I invite you to do so as well.
Thank you for your reply. I hear what you’re saying but one contributing factor for choosing vasectomy (in addition to saving my wife’s life) was that we already had three children and didn’t need (nor could we afford) any more.
I am INSTANTLY new. Please, look into, and pray to, Fr. Nelson Baker. This sure to be saint, will embrace you with the love of Our Lady Of Victory, not platitudes, … , belief, … , in Him and her. I will pray for you both.
After re-reading this entire thread I am secure in the judgement that I have said exactly what I needed to say and exactly what was true. Not one single negative response to me was good enough to refute or discredit or disprove anything I have said. This conversation has been important to me because it has demonstrated and affirmed to me that I am essentially correct and true in my convictions and beliefs about all of this.
This is how your post comes off (and maybe you cannot see it). “I am right, because I am right. Nothing you have said has convinced me that I am not right. Because everything that I have said is right. And it makes me right, because it makes me feel right. So, I am right. Very, very right. And you are wrong, because I am right. So, don’t tell me I am wrong, because I am right. Super—duper—right. And you are wrong. Right” : )
Nonsense. Jesus doesn’t answer anything about birth control. Do you simply make all of this up? There is nothing wrong with sexual relations between man and wife. Married sex is not “sterile satisfactions”. There is nothing wrong with sensual pleasure. It seems that everything you think is wrong. I feel sorry for you. Your childish interpretation of catholic teaching and your peculiar ideas about normal healthy sex sound like a kind of strange perversion.
“What difference is there between a sinful bed and the bed of two spouses who do not refuse pleasure, but do refuse offspring? Let’s not engage in verbal acrobatics and deceitful reasoning. The difference is quite small. For if, because of illness or imperfections, it is advisable or permissible not to have children, people must then manage to be continent and deprive themselves of the sterile satisfactions which are nothing but sensual pleasure. If, on the other hand, no obstacle to procreation intervenes, why do you make a natural and supernatural law an immoral act by deforming its purpose?” Maria from the Pen of Jesus
I don’t think we want to go down this road of saying anything that Jesus did not explicitly answer is therefore good, will not lead to good things. The conversations could get very dark pretty quickly if we entertain this theological heresy.
I agree, if open to life and unitive (see one of my early responses).
I just realized that you were responding to @Soul, so I will “C” my way out of this “A-B” Conversation ; )
No, but I bet yours is through the roof! Only erigant people have to tell you how high their IQ is.
But, for entertainment purposes, share with everyone here what your IQ is. Also, share with us where you were tested for IQ. Was it done by a University, on a Buzz-Feed article, Facebook link, an App, or somewhere a little more reputable?
About 50 years ago a friend was learning, as part of her job, to give IQ tests. To help her, I let her administer the test to me. One of the questions showed an ocean liner with everything from the top deck upwards cut off. What was missing? Lifeboats, I answered. Wrong! Smokestacks were missing, according to the IQ test. But modern ocean liners are often diesel-powered and have one small stack, whereas they all have lifeboats. I have had no confidence in IQ tests since then.