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Contents (as printed)
The Author’s Appeal
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
- Setting the Scene
- The Scope of This Book
Chapter One: The Marital Debt and the Use of Marriage
Chapter Two: Magisterial Sources on NFP
- Early Sources
- Modern Sources
Chapter Three: A Solution
Chapter Four: What is a Just Cause for Spacing Births?
- Just Cause Defined
- Final Synthesis
Chapter Five: Spiritual and Pastoral Considerations
- Spiritual Considerations
- Pastoral Considerations
Appendix: Griese’s List of Motives for Using Periodic Continence
About the Author
- Donate

Chapter — Clark, New Questions, Old Answers

Chapter One: The Marital Debt and the Use of Marriage

Contents

Marital Debt?
Natural Family Planning and Sexual Vice
Other Errors Discussed
An Analogy with Agriculture: NFP’s Causal Structure
An Analogy with Communication: NFP’s Pseudo-Frustration of a Faculty
The Doctrine of The Catechism of St. Thomas Aquinas

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Morals of the Church — a library of classic manuals of Catholic moral theology in English.

Texts presented for study and reference. In whatever touches your own conscience, seek out a confessor and the spiritual guidance of a priest — as the manuals themselves counsel: “If a person has time to resolve his hesitation, he should not trust to common sense, but should consult moral theology, if he is competent to understand and apply it, or should have recourse to his confessor, if he is not a theologian” (McHugh–Callan, n. 656).

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