For the purposes of the reader let it be understood that the views expressed are entirely my own and although 1 may speak of "orthodox Catholicism' you are best advised to remain sceptical. The purpose of this article is to elaborate my view that the Pope was right in vetoing birth control.

It seems to me patently obvious that most of us have some desire for an ideal. Some of us want it more than others, we want a sexy wife but a good cook and companion. We want security and success. There are a great many things we want, some of these things are not necessarily very tangible and often we find that nothing meets the requirements of our emotions—or what ever they are called. Some rather outmoded theologians called this restlessness a search for God. Most artists have it as a perpetual source of inspiration. The search whether fulfilled or not gives life quality, it demands involvement in living, searching- for a pattern of life, an ideal, a motif to express the lack of it's realisation. Whatever it is, the lack of this concept reduces the scope of life.