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John Finnis to Pontifical Academy for Life: Church’s Infallible Teaching Against Contraception Is ‘Certainly True’ | National Catholic Register ncregister.com/news/john-finn… @NCRegister @PontAcadLife #HumanaeVitae
Prof. Finnis recalled that the “wrongness of contracepting conjugal intercourse” is a truth that even the progressive German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner “stated straightforwardly” before the Second Vatican Council.
Finnis said the Church’s doctrine on contraception fulfills the 4 conditions required for a teaching to be infallible even if it’s not been formally defined. But a “new paradigm” of dissent led to a loss of unity in judgment among bishops on the infallible nature of the teaching—
🧵 It’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week! Humanae Vitae is FIRE. Here’s how Pope Paul VI predicted the future in that encyclical. 1/8 
In 1968, he said one of the consequences of artificial birth control would be greater marital infidelity. Amiright? #kinsey #divorce 2/8
Another consequence would be the “general lowering of moral standards”... 3/8
To avoid doing the work I'm not inclined to do, I'm going to indulge a bunch of proclivities at once, which is what Twitter is for. Behold: My #HumanaeVitae story.
My mom and dad had four kids, of which I'm the eldest. My wife is the eldest of four, as well. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, this was a large, but not super-large, family. Our Catholic families undoubtedly used contraception, but I haven't asked because ew.
My mom and dad didn't really talk about numbers of kids much. My mom once said my dad was the second of [more even than I have] because "[My grandmother] came from a generation that didn't know how to say no." My dad made clear he thought nothing wrong with the practice.
