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So Tell Me
"Ha ha ha, lookit those poor suckers trying to count to three!" (photo source) Yesterday was the summer solstice: the longest day of the year. If you attended St. Peter Homeschool, you’d know that...
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Where’s Mama? Where’s Mama?
There she is! Oh, um, sorry, I mean, please come see me in two other places today. Such a day! I have a piece up at Faith and Family Live–an interview with Kathy Rivet, who has been teaching...
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No petty virtues
Some time ago, an online discussion of NFP took an interesting turn. I remember it especially because I got off a pretty good zinger (and that’s what we Catholic bloggers do to advance the kingdom of...
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Why doesn’t the Church just make a list?
image source When Catholics talk about NFP, someone always asks rather plaintively why the Church doesn’t just clear up all the confusion about what does and does not constitute a legitimate reason to...
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So tell me: Marriage Prep
All this talk about young married couples has sent me on a trip down memory lane, back to the old days when my husband was naught but a boyish husband-to-be, and I was a blushing maiden of 22. And by...
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(photo source) Yesterday was the summer solstice: the longest day of the year. If you attended St. Peter Homeschool, you’d know that this is because the earth and the sun are aligned in such a way...
View ArticleWhere’s Mama? Where’s Mama?
There she is! Oh, um, sorry, I mean, please come see me in two other places today. Such a day! I have a piece up at Faith and Family Live–an interview with Kathy Rivet, who has been teaching...
View ArticleNo petty virtues
Some time ago, an online discussion of NFP took an interesting turn. I remember it especially because I got off a pretty good zinger (and that’s what we Catholic bloggers do to advance the kingdom of...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t the Church just make a list?
image source When Catholics talk about NFP, someone always asks rather plaintively why the Church doesn’t just clear up all the confusion about what does and does not constitute a legitimate reason to...
View ArticleSo tell me: Marriage Prep
All this talk about young married couples has sent me on a trip down memory lane, back to the old days when my husband was naught but a boyish husband-to-be, and I was a blushing maiden of 22. And by...
View ArticleTheology of the Body reading recommendations?
A reader writes: I’ve got a Catholic friend who is sorely in need of some good reading materials on the main concepts in Theology of the Body. She buys into very secular views of contraception,...
View ArticleMy profile of Dr. Carpentier in OSV
I wrote this article about Dr. Paul Carpentier quite a while ago – glad they are running it for NFP awareness week! A great doctor and a good man. Doctor keeps medical practice in line with Catholic...
View ArticleNFP Awareness Week: Book Cover Reveal + Open Thread
I am aware of NFP. Are you? I’ve been aware that it’s NFP Awareness Week for some time, now, but I’m kinda tired of NFP. I even wrote a book about it basically so I could stop thinking about it...
View ArticleOh, and a rejected book cover
I forgot about this one. John reminds me that he also offered to ”draw an angry cartoon guy shouting ‘DIS WOOKS WIKE COWNTWACEPTIVE MENTAWITY!!’ to add in the margins alongside controversial...
View ArticleInterested in becoming a Creighton Model FertilityCare practitioner?
People think of NFP as a way to space or postpone pregnancy, but it can be so much more than that, as I discussed in Why Would an Unmarried Woman Chart Her Cycle? Creighton Model Fertility Care in...
View ArticleMother of Nine Accidentally Launches NFP Bestseller; Needle Buried on Irony...
MARLBOROUGH — Popular blogger Simcha Fisher’s first book, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning, became a bestseller overnight after Fisher accidentally published the e-book a month early. “I...
View ArticleCreighton training opportunity in DC area
Got this email from Adrienne Pedraza re Creighton education, and my brain is too fried to try to rewrite it into a post, so here you go: I thought I’d reach out to you to see if you know of anyone who...
View ArticleAre you using the right method of NFP?
If you are all done finding out which character from The Hunger Games you are, which character from Downton Abbey you are, and which character from porno Downton Abbey you are, you might be ready for a...
View ArticleTwo great questions from men about NFP
I had a great interview with the witty and insightful Scott Eric Alt of Logos & Muse yesterday, and he incorporated parts of our conversation into his review, Seven Reasons to Read Simcha Fisher’s...
View ArticleProgesterone cream (prescription and OTC) improved my Creighton NFP charting...
This is my story of how progesterone cream made NFP tolerable, instead of intolerable. The following post is purely in the interest of public service, and is not especially entertaining, amusing, or...
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