INQUISITION NEWS: Contraception OK, Vatican says

Contraception OK, Vatican says in World Youth Day booklet

Contraception OK, Vatican says in World Youth Day booklet

Shannon Deery

From:

Herald Sun

THE Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to start using contraception, breaking a centuries-old church teaching.

In a move that has rocked the Catholic Church, a new Vatican-approved catechism to be released for this year's World Youth Day tells youths they "can and should" use "contraceptive methods" when planning a family.
The controversial statement breaks centuries of Catholic teaching that the use of contraception is "intrinsically evil".
Catholic News Agency reports the directive was issued in the new YouCat booklet to be released this week.
It has been produced in 12 languages for youths attending August's World Youth Day event in Madrid.
It is believed the advice to use contraceptives only appears in the Italian version of the booklet after a translation error.

Question 420 in the Italian language edition states: "Q. Puo una coppia christiana fare ricorso ai metodi anticoncezionali?" (Can a Christian couple have recourse to contraceptive methods?)
"A. Si, una coppia cristiana puo e deve essere responsabile nella sua facolta di poter donare la vita." (Yes, a Christian couple can and should be responsible in its faculty of being able to give life).
A spokesman for the Vatican said he had not yet seen the text so was unable to comment.
But a press conference has been scheduled.
It is not yet known if other language versions also contain the same controversial statement on contraception.
It is believed the English edition does not contain the problematic language.
The statement is set to reignite the contraception debate around the world.
In 2009 Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell enraged health experts after he repeated the Pope's claim that condoms aggravate AIDS and promote promiscuity.
"The idea that you can solve a great spiritual and health crisis like AIDS with a few mechanical contraptions like condoms is ridiculous," he said at the time.