while you and perhaps others will want to so more secular sources and i will of course welcome them here is a statement from the vatcian stating that the church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception furthermore by precedent set on numinous other pages on wikipeida pages therealpressense catholic answers and ewtn have all been used and viewed as acceptable as a source of catholic history all of this aside though this debated fact really doesn't have a place on this page