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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My advice would be to go to confession and just tell the priest how you feel. Exactly how you wrote it above. Not all priests are great, but many are. Maybe he would be willing to commence a conversation with you about it. The fact that you want to go back to confession is great - he will be happy. And if you are open to even a conversation about it, any good priest would be more than happy to walk through the theology of it and talk to you about your fears and your options. [/quote]

Right,  a good priest will talk to you and listen to you and ultimately tell you to use the rhythm method or leave the church.  But you'll feel good about it all, because he's a good priest.[/quote]

Modern Natural Family Planning is as far from the so-called “rhythm method” as ancient cow-dung pessaries.  There is a “standard days” method; a method involving symptom/mucus observation; one that adds observation of basal body temperature; and methods that further include saliva microscopes, ovulation testing and fertility monitoring devices. The “failure” rate of NFP is extremely low, and it has the advantage of also aiding in becoming pregnant when that is what is desired.  Nothing is “perfect.”  Even tubal ligations and vasectomy fail. [/quote]

They don't call it the rhythm method anymore, but it's still the same natural, ineffective way. If it doesn't work -- you have a baby. The Science is better, though -- thank God for modern science.   [/quote]

No, it’s not the “same” as stone-age calendar estimating. To the contrary, it is the product of “modern science.”

“If it doesn’t work — you have a baby.”

Wow, just like chemical method failures, IUD failures; barrier failures; withdrawal failures; and surgical failures.

And unlike other approaches it identifies fertile periods and thus aids couples who decide they want to have a child. [/quote]

DP. NFP is great … for women who CHOOSE IT and have the ability to do it succinctly. what is not great is the Catholic Church’s frankly demented refusal to allow any other type of birth control on the logically unjustifiable grounds that using a SALIVA MICROSCOPE for NFP is somehow more in line with god’s will than using a condom or the pill. The reasoning is like, really really bizarre, and does not really correspond to anything in logic, family needs, relationship needs, much less the freakin’ Bible. This doctrine literally only exists to create a sexual taboo. [/quote]

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