The Pope is against having children....if you can't conceive the old fashioned way.

[pepperbear]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-02-25/pope-conception/53241696/1?csp=24&kjnd=uom4T%2FV7s%2FlGMagR6p7z3tBwt3U4dD%2FiMprPiSrX8%2Bn2jk6X%2Fk34EAw4W50GxCyX-4b82c889-f1e6-48de-90cf-03a5be9e03fc_Z5YfiLuckwoBS1TGSCpvFGypzDo2LknNIH%2F56Dmd%2BIOW8kWavNGyuA1WtvzkQd53

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday urged infertile couples to shun artificial procreation, decrying such methods as a form of arrogance.

Speaking at the end of a three-day Vatican conference on diagnosing and treating infertility, Benedict also reiterated church teaching that marriage is the only permissible place to conceive children. Matrimony "constitutes the only 'place' worthy of the call to existence of a new human being," he said.

The pope pressed the church ban against artificial procreation, saying infertile couples should refrain from any method to try to conceive other than sex between husband and wife.

*snip*

Can't stop that baby...and ya can't have that baby either.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. I guess "priest on child" sex is still okay?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Being "pro-life" isn't about babies or children or life. It's about punishment.

Punishing naughty women for enjoying sex by forcing them to have babies.

[saras]

13. Sort of. You forget that in Christianity, EVERYONE is naughty and needs to be punished.

[nobodyspecial]

3. If they are against playing god

we probably should end hospitals and just let nature take its course.

[Moonwalk]

7. Naw, didn't you read the end? He wants science to work in infertility....

...he just doesn't want science to find ways to create babies outside of wedlock. That, for some reason, is playing god.

Someday, someone is going to have to explain to me why god would give us the brains and ability to play god if god didn't want us playing god.

[Puregonzo1188]

14. Or at the very least get ride of Popes.

[Angry Dragon]

4. This coming from a man that has no sex

legally that is

[Bluerthanblue]

8. and who will never marry-

[Frustratedlady]

5. Cutting into their future "tithers" - with all those lawsuits...

you need as many as you can get.

It truly amazes me how the pious leaders think they know so much about the commoners' sex lives. They need to pay more attention to controlling their own...and don't say they have none.

[dipsydoodle]

6. Where's that ?

back of a Chevrolet ?

[Curmudgeoness]

9. Well, at least he is finally consistent.

I have always had a problem with these churches being against birth control or other modern conveniences of medicine, but still thinking that it is ok to go against their god's wishes. If their god did not see fit to bless the couple with children, then they should just accept it as "god's will" instead of thinking that they know more than god. It seems hypocritical to me to accept everything else as god's will, unless it gets in the way of your own plans.

[cbdo2007]

10. Our IVF baby is a baptized catholic.....so.....who gives a fuck what the pope says.

Eventually, the old school idiots will all die off and the new thinkers will take over. Just like women's rights and gay rights and african americans and everyone else who has been outcast by people.

[Black and Gold]

11. He's the Pope..

so who cares, he is expected to say this...

[bowens43]

12. the pope is an idiot but he wears very cool hats.

[dimbear]

15. That's a little rough on Catholic cattle ranchers, ain't it? n/t