"An action that aims to prevent procreation means denying the intimate truth of married love, with which God’s gift is communicated": today, Benedict XVI has repeated the ‘no’ of the Church to contraception in a message to the head of the Papal Institute "Giovanni Paolo II", mgr. Livio Melina, who, along with the Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, promoted an international congress to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Encyclical Humanae vitae. "The possibility of procreating a new human life is included in the husband and wife’s donating themselves stated the Pope , and marital love has its own way to communicate itself: by begetting children. So it does not only resemble but partakes of God’s love, which wants to communicate itself by calling human people to life". However, granted Benedict XVI, "in a couple’s life there may be some serious circumstances so that it may be prudent to space out the births of children or even terminate them". (continued)
