text: Again, the priest was out of line.  The Church teaches that contraception is a sin.  What's your job as 
   Catholic?  To resolve to sin no more and avoid the near-occasion of sin.  
  
  You got the vasectomy, confess it.  My wife and I have used contraception in the past; it's a tough one to resist, but a lot of sin is tough to resist.  We can only do the best we can.  But what infantilizes the process is when the Church comes out and says, you don't have to use birth control; this assumes that we don't have the maturity and will to resist sin.  
  
  I don't know if I would have the will to not get a vasectomy in your circumstances, but I would respect a couple who has decided abstaining from sex is more important than risking her pregnancy or that one's sex life is so important that sinning to preserve it is ok.  What more could Christ demand from us?