CATHOLIC TEACHING ON FAMILY AND HUMAN LIFE........ Witnessing to the dignity of every human life ( Lenten Laity reflection ) .
The Catholic Church is very concern about the family , because family is the life of the church, the chrisitan community is a family of God. A family life is a life of the church, the church believes that all human life is SACRED, SPECIAL and PRECIOUS. The church respect and uphold the sacredness of life, that is why it frown and conderm any practices, or actions, that aimed at frustrating , maiming, killing and destroying life. The Catholic Church has a clear teaching on ways or means by which life is threatening, destroyed or frustrated.
WAYS OF FRUSTRATING OR DESTROYING HUMAN LIFE AND CATHOLIC TEACHING ON THEM
1 ) Unlawful Sexual Intercourse : this involves having sexual activities outside christian wedlock, it consist of fornication ( sexual relations between unmarried people ) , adultery ( between married or married and unmarried persons ) , incest ( between closely related people in a family , lesbianism ( between two females ) , Homosexual ( between two males ) , Beastility ( between human and animal ) , Onanism ( sex that involves pouring sperm or seed of life outside where it ought to be poured . It is important to know that as chrisitans sex between one finacee who had done traditional marriage but not married in church is sinful and unlawful . This is because the marriage has not been blessed by God and witnessed by the family of God before consummation should take place thus traditional marriage is not a complete marriage by the church.
2. Artifical family planning : this involves means and practices that aid to prevent fertilization which suppose to have taken place naturally during coitus or sex. The church allows only natural family planning which is " BILLING'S METHOD OR LOVE AND LIFE METHOD" that uses the natural signs of the reproductive system of a human body to determine the fertility period of a woman. The church conderms condoms, implants, intrauterine devices, injections, drugs , intubulation of the cervix and womb, hormone injections and other artifical means that aimed at preventing pregnancy. All this process frustrate and destroy life.
3. Abortion : is the killing or destroying a life that is formed at conception or after conception or even after delivery. The church believes that life is SACRED, SPECIAL AND PRECIOUS, every life must be respected, protected and not destroyed . The church teaches that life start immediately when sperm fertilizes an egg of a woman therefore abortion of any artifical cause is sinful and murder. Natural abortion ( ectopic pregnancy induce abortion, spontanous abortion ) is not sinful, medically, any action that sincerely terminated a child inpreference to the mother is abortion and sinful, both life should be aimed at saving . It is important to know that advicing one, accompany one , recommending one , prescribing drug for one for the purpose of abortion or even doing the abortion in any means is sinful and evil.
4) Euthanasia : Is merciful or merciless killing . Killing aimed at easing sufering of one, it can be inform of suicide, suffocation, over feeding one, over injecting one, removing or turning off life support of one, starving one aimed at promoting his or her death, and other means that aimed at fastening one death. The church teaches that one should not aid death in any form.
Finally, the church acknowleges that all these ways or practises that frustrates life is not easy to avoid and some people may had been victim of such due to lack of knowlege or ignorance, the church expect us to ask God for forgiveness by going for confession and doing all he or she can do to avoid all doing them again.
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