90: Contraception and its Discontents —Dr. Chris Kazcor, Dr. George Delgado, MD & Father Paul Check

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🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This special episode is made from three sit-down interviews I did at the recent 50th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae conference in Ontario, CA. I spoke with three experts in diverse fields, all with one thing in common: the ability to clearly describe why contraception is wrong and how to communicate that truth to others.

Dr. Christopher Kaczor, PhD, is professor of philosophy at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. He spoke to me about the child as good—a great good. Seems odd to have to say that out loud, but this is where we’re at as a society and a Church. Kaczor delivered on the moral philosophy aspect of Humanae Vitae.

Dr. George Delgado, MD, is medical director of Culture of Life Family Health Care in San Diego. He is also a Natural Family Planning Medical Consultant trained in NaProTECHNOLOGY and is board certified in family medicine as well as hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Delgado also developed the abortion pill reversal medication. I’ve interviewed him many times on Catholic Answers Live. Our interview focused on the difference NFP makes in marriage.

Father Paul Check, former executive director of Courage International and now rector of St. John Fisher Seminary in Bridgeport, CT, spoke to me about a little-made connection: that between dissent from HV and the rise of the homosexualist movement. Where else are you going to hear this content?

In this episode you will learn:

A simple way to explain why kids are the fruit and crown of marriage, which is true even if some couples are infertile
How moral philosophy helps explain why contraception is wrong
The difference between contraception and NFP (natural family planning)
A family doctor’s perspective on the emotional and spiritual health benefits of NFP
How the rejection of the Church’s teaching on contraception led to societal acceptance of homosexuality
Why straight couples who contracept have no logical basis to reject “gay” “marriage”

Resources recommended in this episode:

Life Issues, Medical Choices: Questions and Answers for Catholics by Christopher Kazcor and Janet Smith
A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience by Dr. Christopher Kazcor
Desire of the Everlasting Hills documentary movie (free to watch)

Question of the week

How can I grow in my understanding of the teaching on birth control and better share it with others?

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 90 of the Patrick Coffin show.
0:04.0	Hey, this is Patrick Coffin.
0:06.0	Welcome to the show.
0:07.0	This is a special edition of the broadcast
0:09.0	in honor of the 50th birthday party of Humana-Vite. What Humana Vitae? Well, it's Latin for of human life.
0:16.3	And if you've never heard my show before, you know that I believe that contraception is at the heart of the Cultural War, that the Cultural War is really
0:24.7	about sex.
0:25.7	It's not so much about gun control versus, you know, Second Amendment or big government versus small government it's not about the role
0:35.4	of taxes although it is all those things primarily it's it's a war about who we
0:39.8	are and what we are what kind of creature are we? Is it true that male and female he made them or
0:46.5	can we make up the rules and the laws about our gender, our sex and what about sexual relations? Who decides what's moral or immoral?
0:57.2	Well, the Catholic Church has been faithfully transmitting the ancient Christian
1:01.5	teaching that's rooted not only in the Bible
1:04.0	but in natural moral philosophy for 2,000 years and this teaching actually predates
1:08.8	Christianity it's rooted in Orthodox Judaism as well and the premises that love belongs to life.
1:15.8	That sex is for babies, it's for procreation.
1:20.1	Not just for procreation, it's also for the unity of the couples, it's also for the unity of the couples it's also for the education of those
1:24.8	children so there are multiple ends there are different goods involved in sexual intercourse
1:31.8	and the nature of marriage as a as a covenant relationship
1:35.4	between one man and one woman that's open to the adventure of
1:38.9	parenthood till death do them part. So I was at this conference in Ontario, California not long ago and I got to catch up with
1:46.2	three people that I've admired from afar. I've met them all before either by the magic of Skype or just because we lived in the same area.
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