Future's Needs

When God makes a mistake, she means it: "Before he became John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla had a telling all-or-nothing formulation: 'If it should be decided that contraception is not an evil in itself then we should have to concede frankly that the Holy Spirit is on the side of the Protestant Churches.'

...But authority—not truth, not love—prevailed: Pope Paul VI, listening to the advice of Wojtyla, disagreed with the majority of these advisers, who had voted 69 to 10 for change, fretting that to change this position would weaken his authority."

The fear is real that interfering with the circumstances leading to procreation is to threaten the holy requirements of life itself.