Concerning the Sacraments of the Church and how they act as a channel of Grace in our lives, this talk on marriage and contraception is the thirty ninth in a series of lectures on the Catholic Catechism recorded in 1965 by Archbishop Fulton J Sheen in the privacy of his own study and first broadcast under the title 'Life is Worth Living'. A master communicator, Fulton Sheen recorded this insightful overview of the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church.
Married couples who say they cannot afford more children are giving primacy to the economic over the human. Love in marriage creates a deep bond of unity that tends to an incarnation. Love is mutual self-giving that ends in self-recovery, which is the child.