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But Does it Work?
The million dollar question: Does NFP work?1 Well, yes, it does. In hundreds and hundreds of real-life trials, involving literally millions of cycles, modern methods of NFP have been found again and...
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Natural Family Planning –“Why Not?”
It is a widely discussed fact that approximately 90% of married Catholics today do not follow the Church’s teachings on family planning. Why not? Certainly there are many reasons, but perhaps the most...
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Five Things I Wish You Knew
1. NFP is difficult to self-teach. Most modern methods of NFP rely, to a greater or lesser extent, on an understanding of the patterns of cervical mucus that every fertile woman experiences. This is...
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Contraception, Lies and the Truth
I recently asked my husband why using NFP to avoid pregnancy sometimes feels so much less certain than using a contraceptive. At first he said that it was because when a couple uses NFP they aren’t...
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Catholic Contraception?
There seems to be concern among some faithful Catholics that NFP is often treated as a kind of Catholic contraception – that it is routinely used, and even promoted, as a morally acceptable way for...
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An Open Question
Within weeks of giving birth to my second child the questions started: “Will you have another?” “When?” “How many are you planning to have?” And when I don’t answer any more precisely than “I hope so”...
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Waiting by Sara Fox Peterson
The slide presentation I use as an introduction to NFP when I am teaching a group of couples includes a wonderful slide titled The Beauty of Waiting. Much has been said about the ways in which...
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NFP: Medical “Exceptions” by Sara Fox Peterson
People who speak publicly about the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage will tell you that one of the question they hear most often is, “But what about people who have a medical reason to use...
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NFP: What’s the Difference? by Sara Fox Peterson
Imagine two hypothetical couples, each with the same number of children, the same financial and material resources, the same psychological stresses and health concerns, each with a serious, selfless...
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NFP: What If It’s Too Late? by Sarah Fox Peterson
Learning the truth about the sex, marriage and family planning can be one of the most difficult and painful aspects of converting (or reverting) to Catholicism – particularly if you or your spouse has...
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NFP: Freeing Our Consciences by Sara Fox Peterson
In the very first column I wrote for CatholicMom.com (Natural Family Planning – Why Not?) I mentioned that the issue of freedom of conscience could be a column (or perhaps book would have been more...
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NFP: Sweetness and Light by Sara Fox Peterson
So NFP is great, right? We promoters and teachers of NFP use a lot of breath and ink letting everyone who comes near us know that. It’s 99% effective! It’s moral, it’s safe, it’s healthy, it’s...
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Jumping on the Reece’s Rainbow Bandwagon
Have you been bumping into Reece’s Rainbow every time you turn around in the Catholic blogosphere lately? Adoption blogs, even special needs adoption blogs, are all over the place, but Catholics seem...
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The Call
Katie Davis Have you ever read a book that changed your life? I mean totally, completely, unexpectedly, changed. Your. Life. Late last year I read something online about Katie Davis’s book Kisses from...
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The Process and the Price
Jason, Sylvia and Gabriana Middleton The international adoption process is not easy to explain and does vary significantly depending on the child’s birth country and whether or not an agency is used,...
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Eyes Wide Open
Every experienced adoptive parent I have talked with has emphasized that happily-ever-after with an adopted child takes a lot of hard work and that it is critical to be prepared for the sometimes...
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