14 May, 2008...12:58 pm
Catholic families
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I found this post at The Muniment Room about Cherie Blair use of contraceptives most interesting.
As a Catholic family, at a Catholic school, I still get strange looks when I pick up the kids. Ok, we are sight to behold but why should a dad with his five children be something strange at a Catholic school. We also get the you-have-your-hands-full comments regularly from Catholics.
So I wonder: what percentage of Catholics do not follow the teaching of the Church on birth-control? And WHY?
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14 May, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Why?
Why?!?!
Because they need cable, they need granite countertops, they need to live in a bigger home than they can afford, they need for the wife to work (especially to pay for day care and the second car that takes her to work), they need to have fewer children to afford a 3K trip to Disney World, they need to have fewer children to be able to afford the two they have going to Harvard (their kids WILL go to Harvard, you know!)
My cousin is now cohabitating with a fella and putting her daughter in daycare. Running the numbers for her she is away from home to pay for being away from home. She can’t afford to have more kids because she is - right now - working for (after expenses of child care, transportation in an SUV, a second car payment, work clothes, and carry-out food) about $1.66 an hour.
A second child with $9K more in childcare for someone else to raise the child would bankrupt them.
Would you work a job that costs you so much after expenses you make less than 25% of the state min wage?
I would not.
But one day the promotion will come and her ship will come in!
15 May, 2008 at 6:59 am
-Would you work a job that costs you so much after expenses you make less than 25% of the state min wage?-
No, that’s why I quit teaching at a Catholic school!
Hahahahahahaha!
15 May, 2008 at 1:13 pm
“No, that’s why I quit teaching at a Catholic school!
Hahahahahahaha!”
ba-dump-bump!
Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week - tip those bartenders and waitresses working so hard for you!
16 May, 2008 at 3:32 am
>>>So I wonder: what percentage of Catholics do not follow the teaching of the Church on birth-control? And WHY?
I’ve seen percentages floating around out there; too lazy to go a-huntin’ for ‘em now. But, I believe it’s over half of all Catholics of childbearing age. :-( I think the “why” boils down to one thing: Pathetic catechesis.
If people don’t know the “why” for what the Church teaches on contraception, they ignore the “what”. Once they really understand theology of the body, you can almost see the lightbulb go on over their heads in regards to contraception and all other matters sexual.
18 May, 2008 at 1:17 am
If you think that it was bad before, it’s just got worse. Look here.
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