Cooperation With Contraception

One spouse's cooperation in the other's onanism: when it is formal, and when material and to be borne.

The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.

In the index as Onanism · A wife · Matrimony · Natural family planning (use of the sterile period)

In the manuals

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Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

John A. McHugh, O.P., and Charles J. Callan, O.P.

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. III, Art. 2. Duties of Members …, Cooperation With Contraception, n. 2623 — Cooperatio Uxoris ad Onanismum vel Contraceptionem. Cooperatio Uxoris ad Onanismum vel Contraceptionem.—(a) Cooperatio formalis graviter illicita est, quum includat approbationem ipsius peccati. Unde graviter peccat uxor quae suis quaeremoniis de molestiis graviditatis vi… Read in context →

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S. — 3 passages

Vol. I, Matrimony, and Holy Orders, On Marriage (Volume I), Supplement to the Treatise on Marriage, nn. 44, 45 & 46 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)

What Is Marriage? A Catechism Arranged According to the Encyclical “Casti Connubii” of Pope Pius XI

Arthur Vermeersch, S.J.

Vermeersch, What Is Marriage?, Part Two: The Attack on Ma…, The Campaign Against the Child, n. 99 — How Are We to Understand That Material Cooperation Which Is Permitted to One of the Parties When the Other Is Determined to Do Wrong?. As the Holy Father has no intention of coming down to details of practical morality, we must evidently have recourse to approved authorities and to former declarations of the Holy See. According to this teaching, there i… Read in context →

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Dominic M. Prümmer, O.P. — 2 passages

Vol. III, Pt. II, Tr. X, Ch. V, Art. III, § 2. On Cooperation In Conjugal Onanism, nn. 701 & 702 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Applications: Cases of Cooperation — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Koch–Preuss · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Slater, Cases I · The Casuist — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)