About a year ago, John received a Vatican newsletter about current events. Below is his response to that organization in his effort to explain what the Church really needs.
JOHN: Thanks for sending me the Newsletter. What I really want to see in it some day is the announcement that the Holy Father has told all the world’s bishops that they need to require all engaged couples to attend a pre-marriage course that will include adequate instruction on ecological breastfeeding, systematic natural family planning in its different forms (all the fertility signs), and adequate teaching of morality and theology including the teaching of Humanae Vitae 10 and 16 about the call to generosity and the need to have a sufficiently serious reason to seek to avoid pregnancy.
The current growing acceptance of so-called same-sex “marriage” stems directly from the societal acceptance of marital contraception. The conservative Anglican bishops argued in 1930 that acceptance of marital contraception would logically lead to the acceptance of sodomy, and unfortunately they were right. The de facto acceptance of marital contraception by a huge majority of Western Catholics is having the same effect.
There may be better ways to reverse this, but the best way I know to reach most couples who want to marry in the Church, even though not regularly attending Mass, is through the right kind of preparation for marriage. And such instruction has to be much more than just non-contraceptive “Catholic birth control.”
(John Kippley, May 27, 2013)
Sheila Kippley