The Washington Post has an article featuring “a movement of younger, religiously conservative Catholic women who are trying to rebrand what may be Catholicism’s most-ignored teaching: its ban on birth control methods such as the Pill.” Unless the WaPo has gotten the story all wrong — and we won’t rule that out — the problem with this rebranding is that it’s bad marketing. You can’t change the product just to make it seem more palatable to your base.
McGuire, 26, of Alexandria is part of a movement of younger, religiously conservative Catholic women who are trying to rebrand an often-ignored church teaching: its ban on birth control methods such as the Pill. Arguing that church theology has been poorly explained and encouraged, they want to shift the image of a traditional Catholic woman from one at home with children to one with a great, communicative sex life, a chemical-free body and babies only when the parents think the time is right.
Wrong!
NFP, by the way, is tolerated in limited circumstances only, and that for grave or serious reason. (See this and this.)
