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NFP Awareness Week Temperature Check

By On July 19, 2010 · 14 Comments

[Update: as was pointed out in the comments section, NFP Awareness Week this year has changed to begin July 25th, rather than culminate on the anniversary of Humanae Vitae's release. Take note! You have time!!!]

No pun intended on the title!

How did your [...]

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If you promote NFP, Vocations will come

By On January 23, 2010 · 11 Comments

It is [was] National Vocation Awareness week January 10-16.

[I had written this post a couple weeks ago, but had difficulty with my audio player plugin. Forgive my tardiness. But, hey, every week is vocations awareness week!]

For the average Catholic in the average parish, this means that this [...]

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The Gift of Life Series to feature NFP Speakers

By On January 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

AQUINAS COLLEGE HOSTS RENOWNED NFP SPEAKERS
Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life to speak on Natural Family Planning and the “Culture of Life”

Aquinas College will launch its spring-semester lecture series with the visit of two members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, who will speak on Natural Family Planning on January 27, [...]

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Priest accuses Diocesan Programs of Mortal Sin!

By On November 14, 2009 · 134 Comments

Do you belong to the “NFP cult”?

Blogger and Seattle acquaintance Mark Shea recently gave NFPworks a little nod in a post, which has attracted a clergyman in the combox who snarkily calls (and implies that I think [...]

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Burning Candles

7 Habits of Highly Effective NFP Promoters

By On September 8, 2009 · 14 Comments

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the water –Genesis 1.2

 

It’s very easy to become depressed in the Natural Family Planning world and [...]

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Marketing with Magnanimity: Hope for NFP Promotion

By On August 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

[This article appeared in the July/ August issue of Family Foundations Magazine.]

[Update: For future installments in this series, bookmark or RSS this blog.]

When is the last time you saw a movie about Natural Family Planning (NFP)? [...]

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Humanae Vitae Study a Life Changing Experience

By On June 16, 2009 · 2 Comments

Recently I did a post on ideas for NFP Awareness Week, which is coming up (are you ready?).  One of the suggestions was to start a Humanae Vitae Study Group. As a trained

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CD Review: Why Contraception Matters

By On May 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I just re-listened to a CD that One More Soul included in an order as a freebie a while back, and wanted to share some thoughts.

About the CD:
Title: “Why Contraception Matters”
Speaker: Stephen Patton, M.A., J.D., [...]

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Fill These Hearts

By On February 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

So I hope that if I publicize this talk by Christopher West in another city, people will still go to the Biochemistry of Sex talk the following week in Madison…

Wide in its scope, at once both modern and ancient, [...]

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Our Lady of the Angels

Humanae Vitae & death

By On August 5, 2008 · 17 Comments

The Lord has been preparing me for an unknown cross for some time, and on Thursday it became apparent in my soul that Friday, July 25th, the 40th Anniversary of Humanae, would be the beginning of this. Can I drink the cup? I wondered, remembering the Lord’s words to St. James, whose feast day it [...]

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Booyah! Humanae Vitae is in tha house.

By On July 23, 2008 · 4 Comments


Well, I normally wouldn’t use my religion card on the blog with such flare, but you know what? The 40th Anniversary of Humanae Vitae’s release is this Friday, I just read a rockin’ article by Mary Eberstadt, and [...]

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