Bishop Victor Galeone, the new ordinary of St. Augustine in Florida, has written an admirable summary of Catholic doctrine on marriage and sexual ethics in his pastoral letter, “Marriage: A Communion of Life and Love”.
The bishop knows that the Gospel of Life runs counter to secular thinking, and he makes a point of saying so:
The vast majority of people today consider contraception a non-issue. So much so that to label it a disorder sounds like a gross exaggeration. And to revisit it seems analogous to studying a treatise from the Flat Earth Society. But contraception is an issue, an absolutely vital issue. To comprehend why it is wrong, it’s first necessary to understand what God originally intended marriage to be. In the opening chapters of Genesis we learn that God himself designed marriage for a twofold purpose: to communicate life and love.
very relevant, readable stuff. I hope it reaches some people who are open.
I’m glad to hear a bishop proclaim the truth on this subject. I’m a third year medical student just completing my ob/gyn rotation and have become very cynical towards this specialty. They tend to look at fertility and pregnancy as a pathology to be medically corrected. The last 4 weeks I’ve been rotating through a Catholic hospital. The only line they draw is not doing elective abortions. It’s made me very sad.
Mike – Have you contacted the One More Soul organization? You might also ask about doing a clerkship at the Pope Paul VI institute (Creighton University) with Dr. Hilgers.
Medical and nursing training programs seem to be determined to force us all into the contraceptive mindset – I know that it took me several years to break loose from the indoctrination I got in my CNM program.