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Originally Posted by Red Ice Player
When you think about it, Baptism, the first sacrament in the Catholic Church, is considered to be the cleansing of "original sin." So I would think that the Church considered the act of procreation to be that sin. I would say that it seems rather an archaic notion now but the tradition lingers.
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When I went to Catholic school, the religion teachers told us it was because everyone was assumed to be a sinner when they were born. Perhaps that could be it more specifically but I don't really know or care exactly what it means at this juncture.