Friday, March 30, 2007

Fr Jonathon Morris on Hannity & Colmes to Discuss Contraception?

Remember Fox News analyst Fr. Jonathan Morris, of the Legionaries of Christ, who also wrote an Open Letter which was critical, not of Hannity's heterdox behavior but of Fr. Euteneuer?

Well, John Mallon tells us:
I have just received notice that Father Jonathan Morris will be on Hannity and Colmes tonight, Friday, March 30, discussing contraception. I have no reason to doubt the report but tried to confirm it with Fox’s switchboard but it is constantly busy. The number is: 212-556-2500.

I hope and pray Fr. Morris proclaims the truth as taught by the Church and does not shrink from his responsibility to be a witness to the fact that artificial contraception is intrinsically evil.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states (cf. 2270):
..."every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil.

Pope John Paul II explained that contraception contradicts and is opposed to true love:
“Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality.” (Familiaris Consortio, #32)
Pope Paul Vi, in Humanae Vitae, declared:

In conformity with these landmarks in the human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again declare that the direct interruption of the generative process already begun, and, above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons, are to be absolutely excluded as licit means of regulating birth. Equally to be excluded, as the teaching authority of the Church has frequently declared, is direct sterilization, whether perpetual or temporary, whether of the man or of the woman. Similarly excluded is every action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible. (Nos. 13, 14)

And in Casti Connubii, Pope Pius XI declared:

Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guild of a grave sin.(No. 56)

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