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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy for me, as a non-catholic to say "who cares what the Church thinks?", but I'm curious how Catholics feel about the church teachings on BC, abortion, etc. Are today's Catholics only so because that's how they were raised? I don't know a single one that doesn't use birth control. I'm surprised the younger generation stays with the church instead of finding a religion that is more realistic with its expectations.

I'm just curious, I guess, because I was raised in an area without many Catholics, and have spent my adult life in the northeast which obviously is much more Catholic, but all the Catholics are fairly liberal.[/quote]

I suppose I am the younger generation. After a couple years of conventional birth control, I successfully switched to natural family planning (charting temps and CM, combined with surprisingly short periods of abstaining from PIV during my most fertile time each month.) Of course, this approach to managing one's fertility won't work for someone who considers any abstinence unrealistic. 
Other than homosexuality, I don't disagree with any actual teachings of the Church and it is the closest fit to my personal moral code (for example, being opposed to the death penalty.) [b]A lot of what non-Catholics and Cafeteria Catholics that I know tell me I should oppose are not actually Catholic doctrine[/b]. I suppose I was blessed to have a professor at my public undergrad who was a former Jesuit and really pushed studying what the Church teaches and then engaging it critically within the contexts of what we know about medicine, poverty, warfare, etc.[/quote]

For instance?[/quote]

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