severing their relationships with Jesus Christ.
Catholic Church unique among institutions, offering strong evidence it is divinely guided.
What has been said by this unique institution throughout the past twenty centuries?
than to procreate children is to do injury to nature" (2:10:95:3).
been received by us for no other purpose than the generation of offspring" (6:23:18).
"They [certain Egyptian heretics] exercise genital acts, yet prevent the conceiving of children.
Not in order to produce offspring, but to satisfy lust, are they eager for corruption" (26:5:2 ).
her husband or he is an adulterer with his own wife" (1:15:17).
husband; for chastity is the sole sterility of a Christian woman" (1:12).
and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin."
direct sterilization, whether perpetual or temporary, whether of the man or of the woman.
thinking of its disobedient members.