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10. It keeps with the Catholic Church's teaching on human sexuality:IT UPHOLDS GOD'S DESIGN FOR SEX AS UNITIVE AND PROCREATIVE.
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God created marriage and sexuality for our good. In Christian marriage, a husband and wife promise to give themselves freely and completely to each other, without reservation, and to remain faithful and open to life. NFP allows the married couple to uphold all these marriage vows. The Catholic Church teaches that all acts of sexual intercourse, in order to reach their most authentic God-given meaning, must be both unitive (bringing the couple closer to each other and God) and procreative (open to the possibility of a new life being conceived). NFP does not obstruct the unitive or procreative aspects of sex. Therefore, it allows couples to plan their families in accordance with God’s design for marriage and sexuality.
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References:
- Pope Saint Paul VI, Humanae Vitae (“On the Regulation of Births”), 1968.
- Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia ("The Joy of Love"), 2016, n. 80, 222.
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2d ed. (1997), paragraphs 2360-2370. For example, from para. 2370: “Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom.”
- United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (2006), pp. 408-10.
- Pope Saint John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, Pauline Books & Media (2006), especially Chapter 3: "He Gave Them the Law of Life as Their Inheritance."
- Pope Saint John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio ("The Christian Family in the Modern World"), 1981, See esp. para. 32-34.
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