DENT & SCRATCH - Barren Beds Over All Tellus

“Do not be confused!,” wrote Benedict XVI in his Spiritual Testament. Confusion has never been a feature of Christian morality. While there have always been plenty of topics about which Christians have legitimately disagreed, the Catholic Church has never lost sight of fundamental points of dogma or morality—and one of these is the immorality of taking steps to obstruct the conception of children or to prevent their birth. The advent of the Pill, however, created a blur; so did the oft-repeated lie of overpopulation. The two together were the perfect recipe to inject confusion into the minds of many.

Yet the final word has been given. As Dom Pius Mary Noonan shows in this luminous booklet, the Church’s doctrine is clear and irreformable. Once sex becomes detached from openness to new life, it can only be about self-gratification, and this in turn can only lead to the breakdown of the natural institution of the family, to the redefinition of marriage, and to every other sexual perversion.

Countless men and women suffer immense personal harm from not knowing the truth or not living in it. Clear, concise, and compelling, Barren Beds Over All Tellus confirms once again the Lord’s merciful promise: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” (John 8:32)—free to love totally and generously, in harmony with the superior wisdom of the Creator.