St. Anthony of Padua<\/a>, his church in this old whaling town. After his fiery sermon attacking the Obama administration, several people in the pews applauded \u2014 a sound striking for its echoes in the cavernous, awesome church, and for its rarity. One does not applaud in Mass.<\/p>\n******<\/p>\n
Father Landry argues that contraception can be the gateway to exploitation: \u201cWhen that petition is made for contraception, it\u2019s going to make pleasure the point of the act, and any time pleasure becomes the point rather than the fruit of the act, the other person becomes the means to that end. And we\u2019re actually going to hurt the people we love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many non-Catholics \u2014 and many Catholics \u2014 see the church\u2019s teaching on contraception as cruel toward women. But Father Landry says it\u2019s women who intuitively get how divorcing sex from procreation allows men to use them; in his experience, it is almost always the woman who moves a couple toward abandoning artificial contraception.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have a lot of times experienced having been used in their marriage or their previous relationship,\u201d Father Landry said.<\/p>\n
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This is a pretty good feature from the NY Times printed a couple of weeks ago. The priest is a Harvard grad. Excerpts below, but hit the link forthe whole not-very-long article, which was quite fair. The Message on Contraception, Without Apology NEW BEDFORD, Mass. \u2014 It was last Sunday morning, and the Rev. Roger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5249,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/5249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}