Natural Family Planning (NFP) provides many benefits that not only promote healthy living, this remarkable method of birth regulation is also environmentally friendly and fosters authentic marital love. NFP is safe There are no harmful side effects for either the … Keep reading

The beginning of a new year often prompts the making of resolutions regarding lifestyle. Some will decide to exercise more or to eat better. Nowadays healthier lifestyle choices are encouraged: a diet rich in whole foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, … Keep reading

Find the Tech Talk Tuesday archive here. In May this year, we moved to a new house. It’s great! It’s grand! And…it’s messed up my NFP charting system. The baby’s old enough now and it’s time for me to get back in … Keep reading

It’s always an awkward moment when, in the ER, I ask teens about sexuality or risk of pregnancy. I can get a feel by the awkward silence that follows whether I’m talking to a family that has open conversations about … Keep reading

Editor’s Note: The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) – the nation’s largest professional organization of Catholic doctors – has released a position paper on implementation of the new vaccine for HPV, Gardasil®. The CMA encourages the use of this safe, effective, and … Keep reading

“My brain is mush,” I said to my husband. “I think you can do it, babe,” he said. “You don’t have to know everything right away.” “I don’t even know my name right now,” I said. I had just returned … Keep reading

My 3-year-old’s pre-school teacher pulled me aside one day after school.  My daughter and a friend had been putting dolls in their dresses, pretending to be pregnant, then pulling the dolls out from between their legs, and then pretending to … Keep reading

“Married love is also faithful and exclusive of all others, and this until death,” Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical “On Human Life.” Faithful and exclusive until death: these are the hallmarks of married life.  Unfortunately, divorce rates have skyrocketed … Keep reading

I was taught in medical school never to leave a newborn delivery without discussing birth control with the new mother.  The exhausted, delighted mothers and smiling fathers would always give the physician a puzzled look when asked, minutes after delivery, … Keep reading

Editor’s Note: We thank guest contributor Auriel Ribeiro for sharing the following article. LMH Marie Bellet, mother of nine children, composed several songs to express her feelings on having a large family. One of them, entitled ‘What I wanted to say’, spoke of her … Keep reading