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The Catholic Church’s Theology of the Body lecture series in Fji last week targeted young people.
Two priests from the United States, Fathers Walter Schu and John Paul Duran, spoke to the audience of young people about the use of contraception and the ideas of love and abstinence.
“Contraception closes us off to the gift of giving life. With contraception, the body is not seen as something to take care of, but merely as an object,” said Fr Duran.
“A love cannot be pure or true if it involves the use of contraception because contraception reduces the capacity to be a father or mother,” he said.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, in New Zealand, the NZ cross-party parliamentarians’ group called for stronger political support to improve the sexual and reproductive health of Pacific adolescents.
The committee callied for stronger collaboration between Pacific parliamentarians and sexual and reproductive health stakeholders to push for sexual and reproductive health and rights on national agendas.
The Committee’s report says that adolescents in the Pacific suffer a disproportionate burden of poor sexual and reproductive health, reflected in the high rates of pregnancies, sexually transmissible infections and cases of gender-based violence among the 10-24 year age group.
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