Contraception

There’s this idea that Catholics have a lot of kids because they like to consummate their marriages as much as anyone else, but aren’t allowed to use artificial contraceptives, children being the necessary but unintended result. This is backwards. Catholic families are large because Catholics, and the Church, are just nuts about children. A Catholic couple gets married, and consummates their marriage, in order to have kids. On purpose! The teaching against contraception, while perfectly serious, is almost an afterthought, the way it’s an afterthought that when it’s day, it can’t be night.