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I am currently in year 12 and was wondering if you could help me with my assignment by answering some questions.
I know that it the Catholic tradition artificial contraception is not allowed. However I have heard of the method called the billing ovulation method, I would like to know if their are any other methods used to prevent child birth? Also I would like to know how does the Catholic Church seek to address and solve the ethical dilemma of contraception?
Hi, these two websites should help. The first one has a free forum where you can dig deeper on just about any topic.
http://www.catholic.com/
http://www.catholic.org/
And the online Catholic Catechism allows you to search for specific, words, topics, etc.
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm
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Michael Clark, Ph.D.
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I'm a progressive Catholic--not a liberal, conservative nor a single-minded critic of Catholicism. I simply believe that adults in the 21C should use the mind God gave them and not just repeat ancient and medieval modes of thinking.
I can probably help with questions that intelligently and respectfully question those aspects of Catholicism that are not infallible. But if you're looking for someone to vigorously defend or perhaps refute Catholicism as a whole, that's not me. So please ask another expert.
Experience
I run an educational website earthpages.org and know what the web has to offer. I might suggest hyperlinks and/or book titles as I have a Ph.D. in Religious Studies and a considerable personal library.
Publications
Print Media:
My table from "Religions and Cults" at earthpages.org is reproduced with permission in L. Lindsey, S. Beach and B. Ravelli, Core Concepts in Sociology, 2nd ed., p. 157
World Wide Web:
My online article "Letter to God" coauthored with Buddhist monk, E. Raymond Rock, appears on several different spirituality-based websites, including http://tinyurl.com/db7a5o
I've interviewed, as a Christian, a self-proclaimed mystic: http://tinyurl.com/cawykr
My articles appeared at the former New View magazine nuvunow.ca and are published at earthpages.org.
Education/Credentials
Ph.D. in Religious Studies
M.A. in Comparative Religion
B.A. Hon. in Psychology/Sociology
For more info, please see my CV and letters of recommendation and my blog at michaelwclark.com.
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