Catholic Issues: Birth Control
Catholic Church teaching on Birth Control has been a controversial issue for many Catholics. The sections on contraception in the Catholic Catechism, The Fecundity of Marriage, have been extracted and are provided below.
The linkage between Natural Law and the Church's position on contraception has been difficult for many Catholics to understand. The essay, Cooperating with the Creator: The Church and Birth Control by Mark P. Shea, provides insight into how one person, a convert to Catholicism, came to understand and accept the Church’s teaching.
