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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the reading I’ve done indicates that American Catholic women have terminations and use birth control at the same rate as other women.

Are there any Catholic women of recent generations who actually withhold sex for the rest of their fertile years once they’ve had all the kids they want?[/quote]

Your second sentence belies a failure in your research, as PP notes. Totally nutters.

But I don't understand why what you wrote in the first seems to surprise you. I don't get why it is so difficult to understand that human beings don't live up to the sometimes impossible demands of of living a "morally perfect" life. Also, not everyone in a religion agrees with all the edicts of church leaders (not all Catholics are [i]politically[/i] pro-life, for example, and for very good reason), many of which are constantly debated among the church religious leaders, and certainly among lay people. Even the Church's position on various "rules" has changed over time and will likely change again. Religion seeks to guide people through this life on Earth by trying to determine the best path toward love. All humans fail at this from time to time, even those who take religious vows, and sometimes especially those who believe they have "all the answers" as to what is required for a moral life. Catholic intellectual tradition states: "The relationship between faith and reason is dynamic (not static) because both faith and reason are involved in a mutual search for and reception of meaning and truth." This requires a constant search for balance, which means allowing for change. [/quote]

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