Greg F - I'll stick with my contention that contraception is a non-issue in Brazil.
I linked above to an article at the PBS (US Public Broadcasting Service) Website (click). Here's an excerpt:

Today, in what remains the world's largest Roman Catholic country, 80 percent of women of childbearing age are on some form of artificial contraception, long forbidden by the Church. The total fertility rate, which was six children per woman in 1960, is now 1.9. The rate is 2.05 in the United States.

My point is (and was) that although we all know that the Catholic Church remains officially opposed to contraception, Brazilian Catholics do a very good job of ignoring that opposition - even better than U.S. Catholics do.
Most people are smart enough not to take sex advice from celibate old men. And although their advice on sex may be distorted, that doesn't mean that they are evil people or that they may not be credible voices on other subjects like poverty and immigration and abolishment of the death penalty.

I think that many posters here are under the illusion that Catholic bishops exercise some sort of mind control, and that Catholics feel obliged to follow their every whim. That just isn't true - and never was. Catholics are no stupider than anybody else. And for that matter, I think most people aren't as stupid as we seem to think they are - even if they live in different countries or belong to different political parties or practice different religious traditions.

-Joe-