The following comes from a Nov. 18 story in the Daily Telegraph (U.K.).
Long-term use of the contraceptive pill doubles the risk of a leading cause of blindness, a study has shown.
Scientists warned that the Pill may play a role in glaucoma and urged women at risk to have their eyes screened.
Glaucoma is caused by a build-up of fluid pressure in the eye, resulting in irreversible damage to the optic nerve. The most common, chronic form of the disease is believed to affect about 480,000 people in England.
Previous studies have suggested that the hormone oestrogen, a key component of the Pill, might be involved in the development of glaucoma.
The new finding, presented at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting in New Orleans, follows a study of 3,406 women aged 40 and over who were questioned about their reproductive history and underwent eye examinations.
Researchers found that women who had used oral contraceptives for three years or more were twice as likely to have had a diagnosis of glaucoma.
It made no difference what kind of oral contraceptive the women had been using.
The scientists said taking the Pill long-term could be a risk factor for glaucoma that sits alongside others, including family history of the disease, black African ancestry, short-sightedness, raised pressure in the eye, and diabetes.
They urged gynaecologists and eye specialists to be aware of the risk of glaucoma in women who have been on the Pill for a number of years.
Study leader Professor Shan Lin, from the University of California at San Francisco, said: ”This study should be an impetus for future research to prove the cause and effect of oral contraceptives and glaucoma.
”At this point, women who have taken oral contraceptives for three or more years should be screened for glaucoma and followed closely by an ophthalmologist, especially if they have any other existing risk factors.”
There are four main types of glaucoma, the most common being slow-developing chronic open-angled glaucoma.
Primary angle-closure glaucoma is a rare form that can occur slowly or develop quickly, leading to rapid vision loss in one or both eyes.
Secondary glaucoma is the result of an eye injury or other eye condition, such as inflammation. Developmental, or congenital, glaucoma is another rare version of the disease caused by a birth defect.
To read the original story, click here.
BREAKING NEWS: Riding in a car increases your likelihood of death by car accident by 100 fold. Therefore, it is immoral to ride in a car.
YFC answer directly do you believe in the Church’s teaching on birth control… Breaking news. Gay men contract the AIDS virus at a higher rate than straight men. Therefore it is immoral to be gay….
You may be flip in your replies, YFC, likely because you have no children. But if you did, even outside of Church law, I would hope you wouldn’t want your 11 or 12 year old little girl, your own child, ingesting something on a regular basis that was so incredibly unhealthy for her as to lead to what ‘birth control’ does. Blindness is not the worst of it.
Where is your heart, YFC? Where are your sensibilities about what naturally is grossly unhealthy for a perfectly functioning creatures of God?
If you look at the Faith from a higher level, that is the overarching level of a loving Father, you will see that what many perceive as ‘foolish’ or ‘outdated’ coincides with in truth with that which is healthy, life affirming, in tune with nature, etc, etc. etc. Or are you so bent on this change, change, change agenda that you would rather pervert that which God created just because we can?!
Wrong Cansius. HIV is a straight illness in Africa, which is by far the largest numbers of those infected.
no you are wrong as you always are YFC invented and spread by gay men
Are you saying that AIDS is an African disease?
LOl Oh ski ven….enjoy the humor. I remember Skai use to make us laugh too…but I know what you are intending to say…I do like the humor too.
BREAKING NEWS: YFC, The father of lies is certainly using your particular vulnerability and your poor weakness to the detriment of you risking your own eternal life. You do not currently see this due to the reality that habitual sin darkens the intellect and reasoning abilities. Our Lady of Fatima warned the world about Russia spreading her errors if mankind continued on the road to perdition. Russia is spreading her errors through the manipulation of *all of our sinful vulnerabilities*. St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote that if we were truly made aware of all of the many obstacles that would be placed before us for our entire lives then we would weep at the birth of each baby in realizing the many difficult challenges that will be faced. You have been deceived and you are embracing the obstacles instead of embracing the Truths of the narrow road that leads to eternal life. It is not anyone’s job to convince you of the TRUTH but it is our responsibility to inform and remind you of these truths.
The father of lies is an equal opportunity destroyer. There is no reasoning with a cocaine addict who is in right in the midst of their slavery to their drug of addiction. Of course a cocaine addict also wants to manipulate and dismantle the entire system and the universe in order to hold on to that deadly drug or vice of choice. This is what you are doing here on this website. YFC you are only hurting yourself. Those who struggle with same sex attraction are being preyed upon and used by the father of lies because he knows very well how to prey on their vulnerabilities of feeling very isolated and very rejected. You might be fooled at this time to think that your agenda is gaining momentum but in reality it is the father of lies who gains the momentum by helping you to lose your most precious gift which is the priceless gift of the inheritance of eternal life.
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My cousin who died from aids was baptized 2 months before his death. My poor vulnerable cousin had so many obstacles that divided his reasoning sensibilities. My cousin was kind to many people but he was not kind to himself or the people that he chose to commit mortal sins with….that is until he chose to embrace the Fullness of Truth instead of embracing the obstacles of committing mortal sins. Many many people prayed the rosary for his healing conversion and those prayers were more than generously answered. At this particular time I believe that you are so caught up in the manipulation and the justification of your own addiction that you would not even listen to my cousin if he were to return from the dead and ask you to stop hurting yourself by risking eternal damnation. I will always be grateful to God for even his severe mercies because the end result is often the repentance of a very hardened heart. Will you keep refusing God’s tender mercy by continually rejecting God’s revealed Truths in an exchange for addictions in this temporary and passing life? Do you pray the rosary YFC? Please remember that right at the moment that my cousin died he looked up and said, “Who is the BEAUTIFUL LADY?”
That is exactly my point Tracy.
And Catherine, the father of lies has certainly given you one big case of homosexual obsession. I pray for you, really I do.
YFC, after reading Catherine’s rather personal and compelling post, and her heartfelt plea for your soul, I cannot see how you stick with believing that her issue with the scourge of homosexuality is an obsession.
The only obsession is the salvation of souls brought about by Catholics from the top down embracing the fullness of Truth in all its crosses.
You state in your other posts to me that you are on board with cleansing the Church (excuse the paraphrase) if that is necessary. It is, YFC. This is precisely why the sin of Sodom – that is Sodomy in the fullness of what it implies – and we’re not talking a lack of hospitality – needs to be fought.
AIDS is not spread primarily through faithful marriage, one man one woman. You know that. But also, those who are married know that there is disease that can be spread by the misuse of marriage.
It is wrong to hold that every sexual act under the sun is given the go ahead if two parties are married. And I’m not only referencing physical disease, but rather that spiritual disease that would have one degrade his/her partner to nothing more than an object of physical pleasure.
Ann, obsessions cause people to take a conversation which is about one topic and divert it into a discussion about their object of their obsession. It causes people to see their fellow catholics only through the lens of their obsession, not the fullness of their humanity. I just call it like I see it. Pope Francis is clearly trying to steer the Church away from these kinds of obsessions, which threaten to tarnish the reflection of Christ that every Christian is.
YFC, In your original “BREAKING NEWS” comment to the above article , “Birth control pill ‘doubles risk of leading cause of blindness’”, you said the following, “Gay men contract the AIDS virus at a higher rate than straight men. Therefore it is immoral to be gay….”
YFC, nowhere in the story is will you find a single mention of AIDS, Straight men, Gay men, or Immorality!
In your 11/23/13 1:01 pm post you wrote Ann the following: “obsessions cause people to take a conversation which is about one topic and divert it into a discussion about their object of their obsession…….”
YFC before you decide to once again accuse Catherine of having “a big case of homosexual obsession”, you might consider taking a long hard look into the mirror. With all due respect, YFC, I think you owe Catherine a huge apology!
Tracy I did not say that CANISIUS said that ! Please read the posts and the authorship of the posts more carefully!
Not sure where my posts keep disappearing to, but Providence has answered yet again. Thank you, Tracy, for your clear assessment of, what for all intents and purposes appears to be, YFC’s projection of homosexual obsession onto Catherine.
That said, while YFC does indeed owe Catherine an apology for his false assertions, misconstruing accurate diagnosis and love of souls with obsession, I’m thinking Catherine is well able to take the hit if only YFC would, on any level, begin to think about the Truths of what she says.
There is no discounting of the fullness of humanity here, YFC. It is precisely Catherine’s understanding of the fullness of humanity, dignity, and beauty in God’s sight and what He calls us to in the fullness of Charity that exhorts Catherine to be continual in her reaching out to you with hard Truths.
She loves, YFC. In the truest sense of the word. I pray someday you will see that much like her dear cousin at the end. What a huge blessing to see His work so clearly.
YFC, thank you for the correction. Your original statement, which just happens to be the first comment posted on this thread said the following: “BREAKING NEWS: Riding in a car increases your likelihood of death by car accident by 100 fold. Therefore, it is immoral to ride in a car.” The CANISIUS comment, while indeed different, was just a parallel example of what YOU said.
Now that the correction is made, my original conclusion stands. I hope that clears things up.
Thank you Tracy, Abeca and Ann Malley. : )
The topic presented is about “a double risk of blindness”. YFC’s post has everything to do with homosexuality. Individuals who have convinced themselves to play God and ignore Sacred Scripture and Church teaching regarding the warnings regarding homosexual acts or the use of artificial birth control often join rebellious forces in order to justify or rationalize certain sins and they will often support one another. Mortal sins have consequences that cause misery and blinded misery loves the validating company of another misery.
Ann Malley,
Thank you also for expressing the Fullness of Truth which teaches and compels our hearts and minds to reach out to those who have been so cruelly deceived by those who have compromised the Truth in order to justify certain sins. In the measure we love, trust and forgive, that same measure will be measured against us. That is not always easy. It was not easy for Jesus Christ to be crucified to hang on a Cross for three hours in order to redeem all sinners. Is there one of us who would not desire the fullest measure of mercy extended to us for our own transgressions when the time comes for us to face Almighty God? YFC will never be able to claim that no one loved him enough or ever cared about him enough to charitably inform him of the Fullness of the Truth.
I posted earlier that YFC is unable, (by choice of unwillingness to cooperate with grace) at this particular time to see the connecting dot correlation of his first post. Spiritual blindness disables reasoning. YFC wrote, “Riding in a car increases your likelihood of death by car accident by 100 fold. Therefore, it is immoral to ride in a car.” YFC cannot see that he is not just riding in that car..he is the CHAUFFEUR comfortably cruising along in that ill fated limousine with a willing passenger. YFC consistently encourages others to offend God by promoting immorality on a faithful Catholic website while increasing the double risk and likelihood of causing the spiritual death of his own soul and the spiritual death of the soul of someone he claims to love. God IS the author of all life and natural law. Contra = means *against*. Conception = God. who is the Author of all life. YFC is promoting homosexuality as if it were a virtuous alternative or a virtuous good + Promoting Artificial Contraception = means that an individual is still blinded and in essence railing against the Supreme Author of all that exists. YFC, Is promoting the culture of death. There could not be any greater type of risky blindness!
Again you have said it, Catherine:
“…There could not be any greater type of risky blindness!” That is why I pray that YFC and others will be gifted (and it is a tremendous GRACE) with a true spiritual director – one that will not dangle the progressive carrot of changing scripture, doctrine, or Truth or look the other way for being overloaded or pressed from the higher ups to avoid confrontations that would ‘drive people from the pews.’
In contrast to the beautiful story of your cousin, my father in his last year of life, a former catechist mind you, guided someone very dear to him away from the Faith. Not to the SSPX – oh, no, Anonymous. Rather, my father, thanks to the instructions and assurances he’d received from his ‘full communion’ priest friends, assured this poor woman that she didn’t need to be Catholic to go to Heaven. She was ‘fine’ where was.
to Catherine cont:
God would give her the chance to either choose Him or not choose Him at death. And choosing Him at your death is all that mattered. There was a lot of other nonsense he’d been taught – like all those who die in war to Heaven because they’d ‘given their life’ for another. (This is not to dismiss good and faithful priests, but rather to point out the vast amount of nonsense that others would have Catholics believe is only a figment of imagination.)
Back to my father, this was the response given to a seeking atheist who, seeing my father’s deep attachment to the Faith, had her asking for instruction. Begging for it.
That said, while I grieve for YFC’s promotion of his particular agenda, I place the lion’s share of blame on those leaders who misguide, cajole, wheedle, keep silent and mince truth as if they really didn’t ascribe to the Gospel at all. None of it.
For deep down, I believe that YFC wants to hold to the Faith. But if one is perpetually misled by those whom one should trust the most – that is lied to – the effect is apostasy all around. If not in the physical body, then most assuredly in the heart and mind.
IOW: YFC might be the chauffeur with plenty of company in the car, but he is not the one holding the checkered flag, encouraging the masses to rev their engines.
Thanks again for all you do, Catherine.
Don’t you think it would be better and more productive just to teach the Catholic Truth instead of going off on these Commandment-bending rants?
Yes Catherine not only does the pill can cause blindness but it can also cause a spiritual blindness too. I learned from a holy good friend from my past, she told me that women who contracept on purpose for their fleshly freedom, are usually blinded spiritually and that could be why some continue to grow more prideful as well….that can go as well to spiritual blindness of any acts against purity just like how you are trying to demonstrate here in regards to homosexuals who reject God’s graces by their choosing to not abide by God’s natural plan.
” I place the lion’s share of blame on those leaders who misguide, cajole, wheedle, keep silent and mince truth as if they really didn’t ascribe to the Gospel at all. None of it.” = Bingo
“IOW: YFC might be the chauffeur with plenty of company in the car, but he is not the one holding the checkered flag, encouraging the masses to rev their engines.” = Double Bingo
Ann Malley, I am so very sorry to read about the terrible lying influences that were given to your dear father. These lying influences were the poisonous catalysts of misleading your dear father and then your father’s misleading the woman who valued your father’s attachment to his faith. And to add even more pain and insult to this grave injury, these wolves are excused and overlooked, protected and coddled as being in full communion with Rome. Perhaps some of them are truly afraid of the reality of what Father Hardon said, ” Be careful it can cost you your life. I know this because they murdered my friend. ” This is why it is important that the laity is holy and that our few good bishops and good priests realize that no servant is greater than the master. The martyrdom of the saints is not a fairy tale. I am praying for the uniting of all of Jesus’s many scattered sheep!
I will ask my relative, to have a Mass offered for the special intention of your father’s soul. Only God knows truly knows what weakness was exploited in the heart and mind of your father when the wolves gained entrance and led him astray. Perhaps that weakness was born out of the desire to show charity to others but as we have learned, it is false charity that can prolongs one’s suffering as well as one’s attachment to serious sin. Ann Malley, I am sure you consistently pray these most comforting words …”Jesus I Trust You!”
Thank you, Catherine. And God bless you for having mass offered for my father. He was a good man, but old, weak, he’d suffered much, and was all to easily led in his latter years.
And yes, “Jesus, I trust you,” is a mainstay of living.
Thanks again and God bless!
YFC the only father of lies is the theories you have embraced on homosexuality. Once again stop attacking Catherine and others here who are offended by your admitting to immoral sinful lifestyles, it was you who posted them here.
The moment you went public here about your theories on homosexuality and how the infant church is filled with bigotry (that is your own words as you have posted once before), you have offended and attacked what we hold dear and you have attacked what we consider an attack on purity and the natural law….you attacked us.
Abeca Christian, please do not put words in my mouth. I never wrote that the infant church is filled with bigotry. That is not my style at all, and it is not something I’ve written.
And my “theories of homosexuality”, well, I’m not sure what you mean by that so I let it go.
As to Catherine, when she completely diverts a blog post and subequent comment conversation to talk about homosexuality, as she did here, I most certainly will point that out, as an example of her obsession. Simply mirroring back to her her own behavior is not attacking her. It is helping her see herself in action.
What a beautiful and compelling post, Catherine. God bless you for sharing it.
Catherine I’m sorry about your cousin….My prayers are with you and your family. God bless you
< Also Catherine you said it right when you said this "YFC is unable, (by choice of unwillingness to cooperate with grace) at this particular time to see the connecting dot correlation of his first post. Spiritual blindness disables reasoning. " It will take a lot of prayers and sufferings, a good priest once said that even our Lady and the saints all put together can not amend for those serous sins. Something like that.
Sins against the faith and purity provoke many to not cooperate with grace…..they are blinded as one good holy priest tried to tell the men who were hooked to pornography. He told them to run like cowards when they are faced with those things, its best to run and not look twice. You look once, you have a chance but looking twice tells that one is already cooperating fully to acts against purity, that applies as well to homosexuals, that is why our beautiful faith tells them to live a chaste lifestyle! AMEN TO SALVATION…AMEN TO being forever with our Lord, may it be His holy will, that we choose Him freely and God bless those in our lives who help us and admonish us when we are in grave danger of falling away from our Lord's precious graces!
Anonymous states: “Don’t you think it would be better and more productive just to teach the Catholic Truth instead of going off on these Commandment-bending rants?”
Pretty obviously the answer is no, Anonymous, even though your dry wit would tend to brevity. Either way, I’m glad all is in order in your world.
YFC, again you make an erroneous comparison. The immorality of contraception of any type has nothing to do with it’s sometimes devastating side effects.
BREAKING NEWS: Sodomy gives you AIDS.
BREAKING NEWS: Sodomy does not give you AIDS. A virus known as HIV gives you AIDS. Which you can get via blood, semen, and other body fluids. No sodomy required, and sodomy without the virus does not give a person AIDS.
gross
Sodomy does transmit the AIDS virus. Stop lying.
Ski Ven, YFC wants you to use the term HIV virus. The HIV virus causes the disease called AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Next time you might want to say Sodomy is responsible for most cases of HIV transmission which is the virus that causes AIDS.
Sodomy eventually makes small or larger tears in the lining of that part of the body that is misused making it more susceptible to disease. That is a known fact. Some heterosexuals practice that type of behavior too, leaving themselves open to some of the diseases that plague homosexuals, though certain types of diseases and cancers that are common among homosexuals are rare among heterosexuals.
YFC, The immorality of the pill is not in the potentially harmful side effects. All conjugal acts must be open to life. This is an infallible teaching of the Church.
Being alive is proven 100% certain to lead to death as well, YFC. Would you state then that it is immoral to live? Is it also immoral to allow any of God’s children to live? Is your position therefore that it is moral to prevent their births, and that using birth control to thwart God is a good thing? Is your point actually to support and encourage the use of birth control, the defiance of the teachings of the Catholic Church, and the rejection of the scientific findings announced n this article?
If I am interpreting correctly your insupportable statement, which is not even complete, you are providing additional support for my position that you are, in fact, on thin ice presumptively calling yourself my fellow Catholic.
I support the teachings of the Catholic Church, increasingly strongly the longer I live and see the wisdom of its teachings borne out in the lives of human beings who suffer the consequences of choosing paths in direct opposition to its teachings, which are, after all, considered thoroughly in the light of the teachings of Jesus Christ Himself. We are greatly blessed to have had the Lord come to Earth to show us the way, and the light, and when we choose the paths of darkness, we learn that indeed the wages of sin is death, usually for ourselves, and not infrequently for others of God’s children as well.
All I said is that the logic that because something sometimes results in injury does not make the something immoral. One does not prove the other. That is all.
But where is the Catholic argument in that, YFC? Where is the love of God? The love of our children? The love of nature in all its beauty and fruitfulness?
God is the giver of life. That said, I cannot help but think that which would frustrate life in its fullness, would be by definition – AntiChrist.
YFC, I refuse to become confused by your tactics! Please allow me to explain. I have gotten the impression from your numerous past comments on CCD, that you believe that “science” is THE sole measurement of something being true. It is also my understanding that you believe that “morality” stems from religious belief, which you believe cannot be measured and therefore should never be used when setting out to prove whether or not something is true or not. In this light, you have often accused many of us posters here at CCD of not using sound reason when we interject morality into a topic, even if the topic itself is about a moral issue! Yet, here you are interjecting morality into a topic that is solely about science!
Let me remind you once again, YFC, of this glaring fact: the author of this story never made even one single comment about the “immorality of” contraception! It is you who have inserted MORALITY into this topic! The author has, however, brought up a scientific fact about contraception i.e. “Birth control pill ‘doubles risk of leading cause of blindness’”.
Tracy you have drawn a lot of conclusions from my writing which I never intended. I think you might want to read them more carefully as you are very mistaken about what I have written and believe.
YFC, there is no mistaking the fact that you interjected “morality” into an article about a scientific study. There is no mistaking the fact that you often interject “science” into articles about morality. There is no mistaking the fact that NOWHERE in you comments on this topic did you voice any outrage that “contraception poison pills”, touted as medicine, are being pushed onto women here and around the world.
I do agree with you on this point, YFC, I truly believe that you did not intend for me to draw the conclusions that I did from your statements. As you are first and foremost an ACTIVIST, I have no doubt that nearly everything you write here is carefully calculated before you hit the SEND button.
Activism — A theory or practice based on militant action to achieve a social or political end.
Side effects are devastating……. would men take the pill? They, the men created it…., not the women.
EXCELLENT point, je.
Science supports the fact that we should not have plan B available over the counter for our teenagers. Plan B happens to be a mega dose birth control used to abort at early stage conception. Do not kill means exactly that. You will end up harming yourself in body and soul. It is Gods law and not ours to change in the name of “choice”! Father knows best and we need to listen.
Good answers, Canisius, Maryanne Leonard and Je. I could not have said it better.
If this study, Pill use increased chance of developing glaucoma. So let’s fix the Pill to prevent the glaucoma. Using this kind of study as an excuse to attack the birth control teaching is a little over the top. Woman, and men, will continue to use birth control to prudently regulate their family size, as they should. Humanae Vitae sent millions of Catholics out of the church with this teaching.
BTW….Headline yesterday from Gallup Poll: “Women have first child much earlier than men”. Huh?
good cause, the majority of Bishop’s in the USA denounced Humanae Vitae. The truth is that millions of Catholics stayed in the pews and still do, all the while “following their own consciences at the encouragement of renegade priest and bishops”. Our pews are emptying as a result of 50 years of poor or absent catechesis along with Catholics now following their uninformed consciences and doing what seems right to them.
good cause, how about you? Are you in or out of the pew these days?
good cause, so your solution is to “fix the pill”? How about if we fix your apparent phobia for people? You might live a more joy-filled life I you started to like having more people around!
Another thought, I can’t help but notice that everyone who is for the widespread prevention of conception has already been conceived and is apparently content with this fact. They seem to have no problem denying life to others, though. The word SELFISH does come to mind.
Women and men will continue to use birth control to the detriment of their becoming Christlike – that is the givers of life. How sad and misguided.
I almost lost my life a few years back due to a high risk pregnancy……that ended in a miscarriage. Doctors warned me and advised that I go on the pill because it could happen again and I may lost my life. I said no way and no how! Now I am having very heavy menstrual cycles due to fibroids. I am anemic because of it. My new OBGYN wanted me to go on the birth control pills so it can help with the heavy bleeding but I still refuse to take them especially since I am very fertile.
I eat well and have managed to survive and I am a huge believer in Naturapath medicine and NFP, they both have helped find solutions that are acceptable to my faith, I just wish insurance policies would cover Naturpath medicine but they don’t, so its not something I can afford to visit as often as I need it…..I am thankful for natural family planning, that has helped save my life. NFP does work!
I know a few close to our family who are on the pill and are having many health issues from the side affects.
God bless you Abeca in your trials!
Thank you Ann. I do believe that these woman issues do need to be talked about. This is the only way we can help many get to the right choices that are healthier and morally right. It also takes away some stigmas that are often directed at women.
Thank you for your prayers and blessings…they are very much needed.
I concur 100% that these issues that effect women need to be spoken of openly, Abeca. And by women who fully embrace Catholic Truth and teaching. I’m greatly edified by the revelation of your struggles – no easy business that. (One of my six sisters suffers as you do…. or did back in the day.)
Too often folks assign scrupulosity or a desire to be holier than others to the idea of attempting to faithfully carry what is indeed a heavy cross. Not to say that those who do legitimately turn to medications are less faithful. Or that those who caution against scrupulosity are not charitable. Indeed they ARE.
But it is very helpful to women everywhere to know that it is possible to embrace this cross, that it is not necessarily due to scruples, and that it very much depends on the openness to the fullness of grace. God sees your heart and knows why you do what you do. Love.
So God bless you for sharing, for struggling, and carrying on every day!
Thank you Ann. I appreciate your kind words, woman to woman, mum to mum. Often I find that women can be harsh on other women. Its such a sad thing because we are not living to the great example of our blessed Virgin Mary…our mum. Example…she visited Elizabeth to help take care of her etc. In the old testament women would help one another as well. But today, I find that we can be harsh on other women. So your kind words and from others here are very kind and appreciated.
God made us strong. I started to think about the the passage from Matthew 9:20 “Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.”. How often we over look and ignore the understanding of that woman. 12 years…wow. The other day I almost passed out because of my heavy bleeding. I wonder how that woman made it but here I am still making it. It was her faith in Christ, she knew and believed and touched the edge of His cloak. How precious and merciful is our Lord. We often romanticized about people suffering but we forget how hard it can be. They may make it look easy but no one can understand how much harder it really is but they are also there for us to learn to be more compassionate and merciful just as is our Lord. You have read me well, I do want to do what is right, has nothing to do with scrupulosity, I don’t know why some think it was or is.
We need real people, real honest answers…down to earth about it. The pill is not a respectful option, no because it ignores or deletes real alternative options that are not so easily available for women. I know, I am experiencing that one right now and have discovered that there are more better options that my OBGYN does not know about or is not informed to share with us. To them the only solution is the pill or other types of drugs or risky procedures. I would like to see more information available to women so they can be empowered to make better choices that won’t affect them later on their lives…better choices that insurance companies will respectfully cover and support our choice lead by our morals and strong believe in what is healthier for us as human beings. I don’t want to be someones guinea pig, I don’t want to hurt any future pregnancies or unborn babies which may be conceived during those choices we make and that may potentially harm them. No way.
abeca, it is not a sin to take a pill to help a medical condition. It is just a medicine. I f your intention is not to use it as birth control, it is not birth control. You are not guilty of contracepting. I had to go on the “pill” because of some growths on my ovaries. They give the “pill” to see if the growths shrink. If they don’t, it could be ovarian cancer. They shrunk, so I got off of it. I did have some side effects and I felt guilty for taking it, even though it was not wrong. (Scruples) It is not OK to damage your health because someone calls the medicine you need birth control. Using artificial contraception is a grave sin. Using a medicine for another purpose, even though some use it for an evil purpose, is not a sin.
The “Pill” is classified as a Class I carcinogenic, as are cigarettes, and asbestos. Women deserve better than the Pill.
And I was concerned because of the potential for it to be an abortificant, so we just abstained for the time I was on it, although that too may have been scruples.
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Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Abeca, are you familiar with the Creighton Fertility Awareness Model? There are ethical OBGyns who specialize in this and they can help with the type of condition you have as well as be covered by insurance. It does sound, however, that the non-poisnous treatment you are currently using works for you, so if my advice isn’t needed by you, maybe someone else could benefit by it.
I am sorry that you have had to deal with all of the pressure you have receive from ill informed doctors. I do want to congratulate you for being strong.
Women do deserve better than the pill!
Tracy I think what you mentioned is another name for NFP…Natural Family Planning and I think you must have used the correct terminology.
Mr Fisher yes I would like the information you mentioned. I don’t know if that pertains to my situation but I am open to looking into what can help me. Ill try to contact you after Thanksgiving weekend. : )
Anony I choose not to take those pesky pills, if I can avoid it, I am more of a natural type of gal. Like Tracy said women do deserve better options and the medical field need to give us that choice. No I am not suffering from scrupulous stuff or what ever made you decide to mention that….but thank you and Ill pray for you. God bless you Thanks everyone….
Abeca, yes, part of the Crieghton model is a form of NFP, however it goes well beyond this. The doctors who are specially trained in this model treat all sort of gynecological problems such as the one you described. This includes, diagnostic, surgical, as well as natural remedies. I heard one OBgyn who is now a Creighton Model practitioner say that she was never taught any, of what she now knows, in medical school nor in her residency program. This would explain why most OBgyns prescribe the pill for nearly every female problem. I hope this helps.
Abeca Christian, Judy Brown of the American Life League has access to a fine pro life doctor named Dr. Dardano. He often gives advice about alternate treatments that do not use the birth control pill. You can go to the Eternal Word Television Network website, just put in EWTN in your search bar and click on it. When you get on their site put your cursor at the top on the subject “Faith”; a list will come down and click on “Catholic Q&A”; then scroll down to “Pro Life Issues”. It will tell you how to contact Judy to ask your question. She also has the American Life League website, and a place where previous questions were answered, but I am not sure if you can contact her at that site, but you should go there and look it over.
Abeca, when you scroll down to “Pro Life Issues”, do not click on that, but click on “American Life League: Judy Brown” right under it. That will give you a link to e-mail her.
Thank you Anne T…will do and God bless you always.
It looks to me that Dr. Anthony Dardano uses the Marquette Model of natural family planning which combines the Creighton Model with a fertility monitor (i.e. Clear Blue Easy)
Oh Ok Tracy I get it, there is a difference between the two. I tried searching for one of those doctors in San Diego….I don’t seem to have connected to one. I hope my insurance covers them. I can’t even afford seeing a Naturapath Doctors as needed because they do not take insurance and I don’t know how to go about that and still get reimbursed, its something I have to do my research but I’m been so anemic that I don’t function at times, so I’m moving slowly…. : ) (turtle me LOL)
In case no body noticed, I only brought about these personal women issues that I am facing so we can talk about it. It is important and you never know whom you will be helping guide towards real answers. Its not something we should be shameful about or keep it secretive, we need to save life’s. Plus maybe the opposite sex can understand the “why” what their spouses are going through. Even us women, don’t understand why we feel or act in some ways….but if we understand our bodies better, we can be empowered and not be the modern medicines Guinea pigs. Who can’t fault our youth today, they only trust what is available to them. So through these conversations, we may be blessing another.
Like you said Women deserve better…….
Exactly! Abeca Christian, and others deserve to know all the dangerous side effects of sodomy, so the innocent are not told lies and seduced into encouraging such behavior.
Abeca Christian, as I told all of you before, a faithful Catholic priest saved my life over twenty years ago when he told me NOT to take the birth control pill, so if I can save another woman’s life by giving her good advice, I am going to do it to the day I die. I believe that is why the Good Lord allowed me to live, while some other women, far younger than I, died of the same type of cancers I have had. YFC, thinks I am stupid, but I did not get to be as old as I am by being stupid.. As one Catholic friend of mine, who is a woman, said to me, “I guess there is something to be said for obedience.” I replied, “I guess there is. It saved by life.”
Abeca, I think your bringing up this topic is indeed helpful. There is a Catholic OB/GYN who has her practice in Fallbrook, which is north of San Diego off the 15 FWY. Her name is Dr. Theresa Stigen and she is trained in the Creighton Model. She has her own website and does list the insurances she accepts. At least look up her website, as you will become more educated on what is possible. She also may be able to refer you to someone closer to you. I heard her interviewed on a San Diego Catholic Radio station about a year ago. I hope this helps.
Tracy yes I have heard of her but she is still far from my home…..I will have to pray about it in order to take the drive and to see if she is under my insurance plan…see that is where the issue is… a while back when she was starting her practice, she was not under covered under my insurance plan. This is where I wish I had more income to cover all this……but we will see…God is good.
YFC, your feeble attempts at casting people who submit thought-filled posts, such as Catherine, as obsessed by homosexuality immediately cause one to be astonished that you do not see that it is not Catherine, or any of the rest of us, or Catholics in general, who are obsessed with homosexuality.
In fact, it is thee, the one who casts this dismissive aspersion, who has the obsession with homosexuality. We who admonish, exhort, challenge and denounce your efforts to promote homosexuality may call you out on various points you promote in error, the majority of which have to do with your obsession, but then we go on with our days to concern ourselves with literally hundreds of other topics of interest, whereas, unfortunately for thee, thou art presently stuck with this particular obsession, from which we would pray thee to be delivered.
Good comments Maryanne Leonard. God bless you
Maryanne, please, I have never called Catherine or anyone else obsessed with homosexuality when they comment on a thread about homosexuality. I have only pointed out their obvious obsessions when there is a thread about some other topic that she chooses all of her own mind to turn into a thread about homosexuality. In these cases, homosexuality had nothing at all to do with the original blog post or any of the comments. Yet she feels it necessary to coopt the conversation into one about homosexuality. How can that be anything BUT obsession?
YFC you are not getting it! Not at all, its not about what you said, its about your being an openly gay man living a sinful lifestyle. We are concerned for your salvation and as we can all see, Catherine surely cares for your salvation as do many here as well. I have been praying for you still. But it hurts me when you edify your gay rights here….its so painful. What you have advocated is actions against purity. And Catherine is trying to admonish what the Lord has asked any faithful to do….you keep resisting the truth on those matters and it can’t be let go because someone has already read your error filled theories and souls are in agony and at risk for damnation. Its serious dear one.
Like a good priest once told us, he told us to run like a coward, run away from anything, acts etc….that go against the faith and against purity. This past Sunday that was the homily and I also heard it from another excellent priest years ago, I have also heard it from an evangelical Christian, because that teaching is biblical…its our faith!
YFC you can’t re-define or change the truth because it is not our own creation. Many want to change the church. We have no authority to over ride all the good our Lord has implemented on mankind. If we only knew how good our Lord is and how good is His plan of salvation is for us, then we would be crazy to want to change it. But because of pride and free will man thinks he has reign over it but it’s only a deception that they live. The reality is that we will all die and face our creator.
They say that acts against purity are one of the most grave ones, that they surely blind any individual….that is why fornicators, homosexuals embracing their sexuality, nudity, porn etc etc….that is why they don’t reason well and they are blinded from the very truth that will save them. That is why it is a good thing, to be a coward when it comes to acts that go against the faith and purity…so we can avoid being slaves to those sins and blinded too. Run, escape, flee…..its all good.
Thank you Maryanne Leonard for the True Charity that you have shown!
As all the faithful Catholic on here who have seen what YFC has written for a long timel know, Catherine only said what she did about his homosexuality to prove a point. The point is that YFC does not follow Church teaching, neither about traditional marriage nor about the birth control pill. Basically, he is an unbeliever and has his own god.
Which, in the context of this blog post on the pill, was a complete non-sequitor. This particular kind of non-sequitor actually has a name: threadjacking.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thread%20Jacking
Excellent Anne T…you said it right!
Amen, Sister in Christ, and he can call me a “threadjacker” or any other name all he wants. I do not care. The truth is the truth is the truth.
Way to go Anne T! Hey they called Jesus worst…..He took it all for our sins….to save us….you take it all for the truth….yup the truth is the truth is the truth!
The anticonceptive pill will give you breast cancer and thrombosis as well.
The Second Vatican Council made it clear that sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful) does not mean sensus laicorum (sense of the lay people), as if it were a charism granted to the laity in isolation from the Catholic Church hierarchy, and as if the clergy were not included among “the faithful”.[4] It stated:
The entire body of the faithful, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief. They manifest this special property by means of the whole people’s supernatural discernment in matters of faith when “from the Bishops down to the last of the lay faithful” they show universal agreement in matters of faith and morals. That discernment in matters of faith is aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth. It is exercised under the guidance of the sacred teaching authority, in faithful and respectful obedience to which the people of God accepts that which is not just the word of men but truly the word of God.[5
From wikipedia
Maybe people should take a course in catechetics so that they can really teach the Faith the way that the Church desires it to be taught. Threatening, insulting, demonizing people is forbidden by the Church. Private revelations are not part of the deposit of Faith and while useful for instruction in piety and obedience and in knowing God’s will, they do not add to the Church’s knowledge. All Divine Revelation ended with the Apostles. Jesus Christ is God’s definitive and complete revelation. I hope you will read the new apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis. It is on the Vatican website. It is called Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel).
Undermining and demonizing courageous and faithful priests is not part of the Deposit of the Faith!
Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of Akita pray for us and for all who reject your maternal love.
In response to your post, Catherine: Amen.