“The root principle of birth-control is unsound.  It is a glorification of the means and a contempt of the end; it says that the pleasure which is a means to the procreation of children is good, but the children themselves are no good.  In other words, to be logical, the philosophy of birth-control would commit us to a world in which trees were always blooming but never giving fruit, a world full of sign-posts that were leading nowhere.  In this cosmos every tree would be a barren fig tree and for that reason would have upon it the curse of God.”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen