Hi! Scott
We must not adapt Spiritual truths to the time and culture in which we live
The Holy Spirit prompts us to serve the Truth, if these prompts are not acted upon there will be no light above the straight pathway of spiritual growth, causing us to wander onto the broad highway of spiritual destruction and sadly due to the culture of cover up within the Church this destruction can now be seen in the crumbling walls of the Vatican.
You say “you have a tendency to be wedded to various man-made laws and customs” I assume you are referring to Humanae Vitae.
In our Lords time children were seen as a blessing, a gift from God and so they are, as
the greatest gift we have received is the gift of life, given by God through the action of our parents, refusing to fully partake in His creation by deliberately denying another the opportunity of life, is sinful and this is known innate by mankind.

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