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Contraception and Sterilization
The Catholic Church has always taught that contraception and sterilization were sinful and that those who engage in such practices with full knowledge and consent commit mortal sins, severing their relationships with Jesus Christ.
Although the Catholic Church, through the Pope and the Magisterium, has been given the authority to "bind and loose" and to declare what is sinful, in reality that authority is only to speak for Christ, not to change what has already been divinely communicated. Unlike all of the other churches in existence, the Catholic Church has never changed a moral teaching. This extreme constancy of teaching makes the almost 2,000 year old Catholic Church unique among institutions, offering strong evidence it is divinely guided.
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