“WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND IT IS US” – If we sin, it is because we have surrendered to the desires of the flesh, or the sinful allurements of the world, or the temptations of the evil one.
Without the aid of any Church doctrine, by just listening to the “close-in teleology” of the conjugal act, I had encountered the truth that to engage in contraceptive sex would be to live a lie. I had an inclination I could not have then put into words that to separate the unitive and the procreative aspects of the conjugal act was wrong, and not only wrong but horribly wrong. For me it was clearly something despicable, something for which I would have to answer to God were I to continue the practice.
It took tremendous courage to accept the will of God knowing that people would suspect infidelity to her betrothal,...
But because of sin, the multitude of individuals that came forth from this couple inherited disunity and enmity towards...
