8.94. Most Catholics today use contraception. Doesn’t that show the Church’s teaching is outdated—or at least open to personal conscience?
The use of contraception is a mortal sin that offends God, defiles marriage, and frustrates the natural end of the conjugal act. This has been condemned infallibly by the Church throughout her history—long before and long after Vatican II.
But after Vatican II, moral clarity was replaced by “pastoral sensitivity”, and priests stopped preaching the truth. The result? Today, most so-called “Catholics” contradict Church teaching with impunity, and many Vatican II “priests” and theologians either ignore or deny the sinfulness of contraception.
This is not a failure of the true Church, but of the false Vatican II religion, which abandoned its mission to teach, govern, and sanctify souls.
Below is a comparison of the true Catholic doctrine on contraception and the modern Novus Ordo approach.
| Category | True Catholic Teaching (Pre-Vatican II) | Vatican II-era Practice and Beliefs | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctrine | Contraception is intrinsically evil and gravely sinful | Official teaching retained (*Humanae Vitae*), but widely ignored | Infallible doctrine cannot be overturned—but was quietly suppressed |
| Magisterial Teaching | Popes Pius XI (*Casti Connubii*) and Pius XII condemned it absolutely | Paul VI reaffirmed it weakly; Francis undermines it with ambiguity | The shift from clarity to ambiguity reveals modernist tactics |
| Moral Theology | Objective sin, not dependent on feelings or intentions | “Conscience” is now elevated over doctrine | This is the error of **proportionalism**, condemned by *Veritatis Splendor* |
| Priestly Preaching | Condemned clearly and often from the pulpit | Rarely mentioned; often dismissed as a “private matter” | Silence in the face of sin is clerical betrayal |
| Faithful Practice | Pre-Vatican II Catholics largely obeyed Church teaching | Studies show 70–90% of Novus Ordo Catholics use contraception | This moral collapse is the fruit of doctrinal ambiguity |
| Effect on Families | Openness to life, large families, trust in Providence | Delayed marriage, sterilization, small or no families | Contradicts God’s command: “Be fruitful and multiply” (Gen. 1:28) |
| Effect on Vocations | Large Catholic families fostered vocations | Contracepting couples have few or no children to offer | This helped cause the priest shortage in the Novus Ordo sect |
| Fruits | Fidelity, chastity, humility, Catholic culture | Fornication, divorce, sterile marriages, dissent | “By their fruits you shall know them” (Matt. 7:16) |
Summary:
The Catholic Church has never changed her teaching on contraception—and cannot change it. It is a grave sin, condemned by Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium.
What changed after Vatican II was not the doctrine, but the silence, compromise, and betrayal of bishops, priests, and theologians who preferred human respect to the law of God.
This widespread use of contraception among Novus Ordo Catholics is not proof that the Church was wrong—but proof that the Vatican II Church is not the Catholic Church.
As Pope Pius XI declared:
“Any use of matrimony whatever, in the exercise of which the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life, is an offense against the law of God and of nature.”
Further reading:
Clean Love in Courtship by Fr. L.G. Lovasik, S.V.D
Casti Connubii (On Christian Marriage) by Pope Pius XI (1930)