Kasper: ‘The Church is not against birth control at all'

ROME, May 9, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Church is not opposed to birth control, Pope Francis believes that 50 percent of marriages are sacramentally invalid, and the notion of “heroic virtue” in refraining from committing adultery or other sexual sins is an unreachable ideal and “not for the average Christian,” a senior Vatican prelate has said in a series of interviews while on a visit to New York.

Cardinal Walter Kasper: while it is normally the Church’s role to help married couples reconcile their difficulties and stay married, “there can be divorces necessary, and then it’s the message of the merciful God that he gives to everybody a new chance, a new beginning. And the Church should do it the same.”

Cardinal Kasper was asked whether married couples who already have “three children and live in poverty” should not be “allowed to use birth control to prevent more conception?”

Cardinal Kasper responded, “Well, the Church is not against birth control at all. … It’s about the methods of birth control. … I do not want to enter into this characteristic…how they have to do it. It’s their personal conscience and their personal responsibility.” “We cannot as human beings always do the ideal, the best. We must do the best possible in a given situation,” he said.
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Cardinal Kasper was asked whether married couples who already have “three children and live in poverty” should not be “allowed to use birth control to prevent more conception?”
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