Contraception

What is the Catholic Church's stance on contraception?

The Catholic Church teaches that any attempt to render the sexual act infertile is immoral.

Thus, artificial birth control methods such as condoms or the pill are not permissible.

However, the Church recognizes that there are sometimes well-grounded reasons for wanting to avoid conceiving a child. It therefore condones and recommends natural family planning methods, all of which involve abstaining from sexual activity during the fertile period of a woman's cycle.