I’ll be giving my version of Janet Smith’s “Contraception: Why Not” called “Family Planning: Thinking Outside the Pill” at the Denver Cathedral CLAY Group, April 11th at 7:45pm (after 6:30pm Mass) in the parish rectory basement.
The talk will cover contraception, its false promises, what the Church really teaches on marriage, family, fertility and family planning, and what what the deal is with Natural Family Planning (NFP).
Questions that will be addressed include:
Contraception helps women and families? Why is the Church against helping ease family stress?
What about overpopulation? Isn’t contraception helping this?
Doesn’t contraception help prevent unwanted pregnancies and lower the abortion rate…isn’t the Church against abortion?
I need the Pill for medical reasons. Isn’t that okay?
NFP isn’t effective. If we really need to postpone a pregnancy, why would I even use NFP?
I’m not Catholic. Isn’t NFP just a Catholic thing?
This is exactly why we need to make their parishes NFP parishes, and why we need to hear more about the evils and ills of contraception, and the call to chastity within marriage. Send this testimony to your Bishop, DRE, parish priest, or church pastor/ leader, asking them to make NFP a priority in their Diocese/ Parish/ faith community. (Thanks for sharing your story, Dustin.)
If you like the conversation between like-minded folks in the faith, join Faith & Family Magazine at their site for a comment convo on NFP Day: Wednesdays. I’ve not tried it before, but hope to have some time this Wednesday. I’ll let you know how it goes!
There's no easy button for NFP, which is why it's so great.
Many couples find themselves between a rock and a hard place, namely, between the Rock & NFP. They (particularly Christians) choose NFP for any combination of reasons, including moral, practical, relational and medical. Some NFPers are well formed in their faith and gung-ho from the beginning, but some are skeptical and need a little encouragement.
In the latter scenario, you may hear the following pitches by NFP instructors, marriage preparation coordinators, friends or pastoral associates:
It’s just as effective as contraception!
It’s marriage insurance: NFP users almost never get divorced.
Google Alert, you are such a blog matchmaker and networking pal. I really like you. You introduce me to people like Natural PaPa, who are non-trad NFP fans with sharp swords of wit, who write blog entries like this:
A guest blog at Rae’s No Wealth But Life, a story of a young woman who got on the Pill to control her menstrual issues, but with grace and a preventative approach to her wellness, came out Pill-free.
If you’re an NFP fan (as opposed to FAM–fertility awareness method), you probably get this question from your skeptical friends:
What’s the difference between NFP & Contraception? They can achieve the same end–postponing pregnancy–so what’s the difference? Isn’t NFP just “Catholic Birth Control”?
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