From the beginning of our marriage, it was necessary for my husband and I to use NFP (Natural Family Planning) to try to avoid pregnancy.
Online Catholics I’ve recently been discouraged by a number of responses to Catholics asking advice on the internet. Usually, a sincere Catholic posts a question
This week I attended a Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the famous papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae, at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in
The fierce battle between the Culture of Death and the Culture of Life is heightened now that there is a new administration in charge. In
The Church recently celebrated Natural Family Planning (NFP) week. The lessons, reflections, and prayers can serve married couples and change the culture. It’s not just a “Catholic
Although I have not really studied Theology of the Body written by Pope John Paul II in 1984, one single paragraph, quoted in our Catholic paper decades
I met my husband because of the pro-life movement — I interviewed him for a radio story as I was covering a 40 Days for
On Facebook, I’m in several Natural Family Planning (NFP) groups, and the same question pops up on a regular basis: “What reasons justify using NFP
The following is a series of blog comments posted by Heidi in the comboxes at the blog Little Catholic Bubble. I found her story so moving and inspirational that
This is the final column in a six-part series on Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s profound and heroic 1968 encyclical. The series’ introduction is here.
According to some of the commenters on Dr. Kaczor\’s post “Does the Catholic Church Hate Women?” at Strange Notions, I\’m just an oppressed victim of
Mothering a large family is my calling and my vocation. As a result, I am a conundrum: a rather outmoded sort of woman, ridiculed by modern career
Have you ever read a book where you find yourself talking out loud in response to what you\’re reading? Simcha Fisher\’s The Sinner\’s Guide to
Transmitting human life is serious business. Not only that, transmitting human life is a *most* serious business. Pope Paul VI says in the opening line
It was an interesting NFP Awareness week at our blog The Practicing Catholic. We wrote a week-long series about natural family planning, and we lost
Visit this website for more on NFP Awareness Week. Shortly before my husband and I were married in the Lutheran church (in which we’d
Matthew Warner recently discontinued his blog at the National Catholic Register. In his second-to-last blog post, Why the World Doesn’t Take Catholicism Seriously, he charged