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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the responses.

I went to confession today. I am glad I went but was essentially told to resolve the birth control issue before having relations with my spouse again. So I'm in a challenging situation now. [/quote]

Congrats on making it to Confession and welcome home. In terms of resolving issues regarding birth control, I would encourage you to talk with your priest outside Confession (maybe make an appointment to see him) and ask for some guidance/resources on learning about the Church’s teachings on birth control/contraception. I would also encourage you to pray throughout this for understanding. On this forum, you will get a lot of posters who advocate for not following the Church’s teachings. I would suggest disregarding their remarks and work instead on beginning to live your Catholic Faith again within the Church. You are in my prayers. God bless you. [/quote]

Thank you! That is very kind.

I don’t want to ‘priest shop’, but I am hoping to maybe talk to a different priest than my confessor on this matter. [/quote]

I wish I had somebody to recommend but I don’t. There are priests who will say whatever anyone wants to hear and there are priests with extremely rigid opinions that do not take full account of Church teaching.

It is not “priest shopping” to look for someone who is better trained, more experienced, and able to dedicate more time to your question than a busy parish priest can in confession.

What you are looking for is a priest knowledgeable about Church teaching on matters of individual conscience, particularly as they relate to the “full, free and final consent of the will” aspect of the criteria for serious sin.

There is also “the principle of double effect,” wherein an act good in itself can have unintended bad consequences. Sometimes IUD’s are prescribed to treat, e.g., Menorrhagia, and any contraceptive effect may be incidental to that.

Something like this is more likely to involve an office appointment than be handled in the confessional, but you can ask the priest to hear your confession at the same time.

Ask God to send you the right person. As others have observed you can also look into natural methods of monitoring fertility. They are quite science-based regardless what you may hear from detractors on DCUM.

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