Pastor Shares Why He Came with Seven Parish NFP Teaching Couples to State Conference

Years ago, when I served on our diocesan pastoral council, someone told me that our bishop said that when it

I first heard the term “natural family planning” when I was attending a Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekend with my wife-to-be,

In our five year struggle with infertility, the first suggestion from friends and coworkers was always, “why don’t you try

Practicing NFP as an unmarried, 24-year-old woman has been one of the greatest blessings of my early twenties. I wouldn’t

Our journey with Natural Family Planning (NFP) was far from easy. Carlos, a committed Protestant, and I, raised in a

When my husband and I first got married we had no idea of the richness of grace our marriage would

When my husband Zach and I married, like every one of my girlfriends, I began taking the birth control pill

As I reflect on my married life and think about all the extreme viewpoints I’ve had in regards to NFP,

“The life of man upon earth is warfare.’ So said Job many centuries ago. There are still some easygoing individuals

“You know this is just a movie, right?” replied my husband Mark, as he graciously changed the channel. The movie

My wife Cassandra and I were married May, 1, 1993. From the beginning of our marriage we wanted to understand

I never thought I’d have a big family. I certainly wasn’t opposed to it. It just wasn’t in my imagination.