What is the Catholic Church's attitude to the use of Viagra in marriage?
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The issue with this question (and the earlier one) is that they are based on the false premise that Catholics are required to have children.
There is no obligation to have children. What there is is an obligation not to deliberately prevent the conception of children (because of the sanctity of life outlawing abortion, and the provision of the conjugal act for procreation). Married Catholics who follow the teachings of the Church are likely to have lots of children; most couples will not want to abstain from sex and children are the natural consequence.
But children follow from sex: sex is a gift, not an obligation. The ability to have children is a gift: it is a gift not given to some couples as part of the human condition, and they have been called to bear their Cross. However, medical science has allowed that burden to be lightened or removed.
The Church does not abhor all advances in medical science, as demonstrated by its attitude to IVF shown by the CDF:
These interventions are not to be rejected on the grounds that they are artificial. As such, they bear witness to the possibilities of the art of medicine. But they must be given a moral evaluation in reference to the dignity of the human person, who is called to realize his vocation from God to the gift of love and the gift of life.
IVF is ultimately condemned not because it is artificial, but because it separates the conjugal act from the conception of life.
The use of drugs and surgical interventions to enable sex "bear witness to the art of medicine". They do not separate conception from sex โ quite the opposite.
Thus they will not be condemned. But the Church cannot oblige its members to use external methods to counter what God has caused them to be.
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