Letters

Creator's plan

Clare Ryan

Contents - Oct 2013 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Postscript on the Australian elections - Peter Westmore Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary - Peter Westmore News: The Church Around the World Frassati Australia and the New Evangelisation - Fr Paul Chandler OSCE Conference: The new face of religious intolerance - Bishop Mario Toso The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins - Audrey English Interview: Why science needs faith - Professor Dominique Lambert The priesthood and the Catholic faith - Fr John O'Neill PP Church of Divine Mercy in Singapore: an amazing discovery - Kazimierz Kozlowski Blessed Jacinta Marto: heroine of Fatima - Cedric Wright Letters: Dr Mobbs replies ... - Frank Mobbs Letters: Exaggeration? - Noel Keith Roberts Letters: Humanae Vitae - Ron Graham Letters: Moral failure - John Wynter Letters: Harmful effects - Richard Grant, Willie Chenhall, Maryse Usher Letters: Creator's plan - Clare Ryan Letters: Culture of life needed - Fr Bernard McGrath Letters: Anti-religious bigotry - Peter Kamsma Events: Spiritual Exercises in Bowral, December 2013 Books: A Book of Saints and Heroes, Heroines, by Joanna Bogle - Val Prendergast (reviewer) Books: COURAGE AND CONVICTION, by Joanna Bogle - Peter Westmore (reviewer) Books: ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE TIBER, by Fr Gerald O'Collins SJ - Frank Mobbs Books: THE FREEDOM OF LOVE, by Rafael de Santiago - Br Barry Coldrey (reviewer) Support: Launch of 2013 Fighting Fund - Peter Westmore Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Bishop Fisher: Young Catholics must be Christ in the world - Bishop Anthony Fisher

I was dismayed and very surprised to read Frank Mobbs' response to Anne Lastman's excellent article, " Humanae Vitae: Still prophetic after 45 years".

Dr Mobbs says that Mrs Lastman "has not shown any causal connection between the number of abortions and the practice of contraception". Yet it seems obvious to those who want to see that the huge increase in abortion is caused by the contraceptive mentality.

The act of sexual intercourse, designed by God, is both unitive and procreative. When these ends are thwarted countless evils are unleashed, one of them being the deaths of 40 million unborn babies each year.

Dr Mobbs also states that married love is quite compatible with the use of contraceptives. But can he explain why since the advent of the Pill, infidelity within marriage, broken families and divorces have all sky-rocketed?

Sexuality is at the very heart of the human person and its expression within marriage must follow the plan of the Creator. Because of our failure to follow this plan the world is being destroyed by a culture of death.

CLARE RYAN
Jindera, NSW

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 26 No 9 (October 2013), p. 15