{"id":173321,"date":"2018-07-26T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173321"},"modified":"2018-07-26T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:55:01","slug":"bishops-group-issues-statement-amid-contraceptive-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/26\/bishops-group-issues-statement-amid-contraceptive-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops&#8217; group issues statement amid &#8216;contraceptive mentality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_170540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170540\" style=\"width: 4326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1045196221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170540\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1045196221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4326\" height=\"2888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1045196221.jpg 4326w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1045196221-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1045196221-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/shutterstock_1045196221-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4326px) 100vw, 4326px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cEvery family plans for their future: when they are ready to have children or when to add more, how they will be raised, where they will be sent to school, how to teach them to pray, where they could go for vacations, how will they manage their finances, etc.,\u201d read the statement issued on Wednesday. (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Wednesday said for Filipinos, every child is a gift from God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is natural for married Filipino couples to wholeheartedly embrace each child, who is a fruit of their love for each other. Despite the fear and criticism that arise from having big families, we still rejoice at the coming of a child,\u201d said CBCP in its pastoral exhortation on the 50th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae signed by president Archbishop Romulo Valles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery family plans for their future: when they are ready to have children or when to add more, how they will be raised, where they will be sent to school, how to teach them to pray, where they could go for vacations, how will they manage their finances, etc.,\u201d read the statement issued on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The CBCP issued the statement amid the emergence of the so-called \u201ccontraceptive mentality\u201d in society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf family planning is simply reduced to the avoidance of pregnancy, should we be puzzled when some children feel that they are fruits of \u2018unwanted pregnancies\u2019? Won\u2019t they feel that their parents love them simply because they have no choice?\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the effect of what we call the \u2018contraceptive mentality\u2019,\u201d the CBCP added.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Paul VI issued the encyclical on parents\u2019 decision regarding the number of their children on July 25, 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Wednesday said for Filipinos, every child is a gift from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":170540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}