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I am changing your question to "Why did Catholics traditionally tend to have large families" from "Why do Catholics have 13 kids" because that is the question I presume you intend to ask.
Traditionally Catholics have had large families because contrary to what secular society claims, children are a natural and desirable by product of the love between a husband and a wife. In the first book of The Bible, Genesis, we learn that God commands Adam and Eve to be "fruitful and multiply, to fill the Earth and subdue it." The EXCEPTION to the rule, therefore is a small family. In short, couples who for medical reasons cannot have children, or for grave reasons need to refrain from having children are the exception to the rule, not the rule. The NORMAL course of action for married couples is that they should children. They should "be fruitful and multiply."
Couples who for grave reasons cannot have children cannot use Artificial Birth Control in good conscience. It's use is considered to be sinful because it distorts the workings of the human body. Through it's use a married couple essentially says to each other "I love every part about you but that part that can create life." It's use also implicitly takes the marital act and makes it more about pleasure and less about a self gift and a gift of true love. The Catholic Church embraces "Natural Family Planning" as a moral means to refrain from having children.
The Catholic Church, and therefore those in union with her see large families as a good, something desirable. Bringing people into the world to share love and life, rather then pursuing wealth and material things that cannot love a person are what matters to Catholic families. Money is great, careers are great, but in the end children bring love, money and careers do not.
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