Bishop says mentality of sterility is harmful

Submitted on October 06, 2009

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Sister Monica Kostielney, RSM, president and chief executive officer of the Michigan Catholic Conference, delivered the keynote speech to the Missouri Catholic Converence Sept. 26 at the Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City.

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JEFFERSON CITY — The call to know, love and serve God is a call to fruitfulness, “the essence and expression of every vocation,” Bishop James V. Johnston said at a workshop Jan. 26 of the annual assembly of the Missouri Catholic Conference.

The bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau said “all love tends toward an incarnation that requires the daily cultivation of the soul of our souls in holiness. It is a call that we must respond to anew each day to God’s question, ‘Where are you?’”

Family life today is in crisis because it is formed in a mentality of sterility, he said. “And we might even say the sacrament of this attitude is contraception within marriage.”

Family life, and by extension the culture and the Church, “will only be renewed when the ‘domestic church’ rediscovers its call to fruitfulness at every level,” he noted.

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