The Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison, located on the West side of Madison, is seeking a Natural Family Planning (NFP) Coordinator to work in their Office of Evangelization and Catechesis. This position will be responsible for promoting the acceptance and use of family planning methods that are in accord with Catholic teaching on marriage and human sexuality. This position coordinates NFP instruction in the diocese, helps to build an authentic culture of life regarding family planning throughout the Diocese and assists with the promotion of authentic, age-appropriate teaching on sexuality, chastity and marriage.details at Madison Diocese
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Madison Diocese seeking NFP Coordinator
Married life is better with NFP says couple at synod
Catholic couples who ignore Church teaching on contraception "don't know what they are missing," said a U.S. couple invited to address the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family.continue at Madison Catholic Herald
Alice and Jeff Heinzen, family life leaders in the Diocese of La Crosse, spoke at the synod October 7, urging efforts to find new ways to share its teaching about the beauty of family life.
Natural Family Planning
Although the couple has practiced Natural Family Planning (NFP) for 27 years and taught NFP -- Alice is a member of the NFP advisory board for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops -- they did not speak specifically about family planning in their presentation to the synod.
Free, Total, Faithful, Fruitful
From one Badger Catholic to the other, Diocese of Madison NFP Coordinator Alison Hetue gives an excellent talk to University of Wisconsin-Madison students at the St. Paul's Catholic Center on contraception and openness to life. Alison's talk begins at the 5:35 mark (although the introduction is interesting as well).
Habit wearing woman religious to offer Creighton services in Winona, MN
The Winona area is blessed to welcome Sister Marie Paul Lockerd, RSM, DO, a family practice physician from Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center in Jackson. Starting March 1, Dr. Lockerd will offer her services one day a month here in Winona. Dr. Lockerd is certified by the Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha, Nebraska, as both a practitioner and medical consultant in the Creighton Model Method of Fertility Care.Winona Courier
This method may be used to avoid or to achieve pregnancy, and is also effective medical management for a wide range of gynecological problems such as irregular or abnormal menstrual cycles, polycystic ovarian disease, premenstrual syndrome, repetitive miscarriages, and chronic discharge. Dr. Lockerd will be providing medical evaluation and treatment using NaProTechnology, a natural procreative treatment in keeping with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
To the right of this article, you can find a chart that shows the great effectiveness of this method. InVitro Fertilization (IVF), not approved by the Catholic Church, has been heavily promoted by our society and even the medical community. From the chart, however, one can see that the success rate of NaProTechnology far exceeds IVF. It works with a woman's body to achieve the greatest results.
Over the last year, Dr. Lockerd has applied her knowledge of NaPro Technology to assist seven infertile couples in achieving pregnancy. The Creighton Model Fertility Care system teaches women to identify their biological markers of fertility. The medical intervention provided cooperates with a woman’s cycle, thus respecting her dignity and promoting good health.
Dr. Lockerd will be seeing patients at the Outreach Clinic of Winona Health. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call her office in Jackson at 507-847-3571.
For further information:
Pope Paul VI Institute: www.popepaulvi.com
NaProTechonology: www.naprotechnology.com
Awesome!
Whoa, what? "Marquette Method of NFP"
continue at CatholicMomAll methods of modern Natural Family Planning (NFP) rely on observation of changes in a woman’s body as it makes its way through the monthly menstrual cycle. These observations determine when sexual intercourse can/should take place – depending on whether one is trying to achieve or postpone pregnancy. Two of the primary signs are cervical fluids and basal body temperature. Commonly known formal methods include the Billings, Sympto-Thermal, and Creighton Methods. All of these methods rely on human observation and charting of one or more of these fertility signs.
The Marquette Method of NFP created by Marquette University Institute of Natural Family Planning [I had no idea this existed] makes use of modern technology in helping women determine their time of fertility. Use of the Clearblue Fertility Monitor can help take human error in charting out of the equation when using NFP.
The instruction manual for using the Marquette Method can be found online at http://nfp.marquette.edu/pdf/nfp_user_manual.pdf . This manual offers a basic introduction to NFP and the reasons to use it as a family planning tool, a review of the basics of human reproduction, and instructions on how to use the Clearblue Fertility Monitor.
There is a Rev. William Kurz, S.J., Ph.D. listed as the clergy consultant.
There is a BadgerCatholic NFP method® but it can only be used to achieve pregnancy and all it costs is a couple bottles of wine and a night out without the kids.
Seriously though, this is good news.
Eau Claire doctor: “I don’t prescribe contraception in my practice. I never have.”
Birth control is a hot topic across the nation right now.continue at WEAU13
You’ve seen politicians dive into the debate as well as religious leaders.
In fact, the department of health and human services recently finalized a birth control mandate.
We have a unique perspective; that of a local doctor who has balanced her catholic faith and her practice.
Doctor Mary Keuhl[Kuehl] takes her religion seriously; it defines who she is, a catholic[sic] doctor.
“My faith is part of everything I do whether out in the community or parenting at home or in my profession as a family practitioner,” said Dr. Mary Keuhl.
The mandate requires employers or their insurance companies to cover birth control and plan B, commonly known as the morning after pill. But that goes against Keuhl’s current practice and beliefs.
“I don’t prescribe contraception in my practice. I never have. I’m encouraging natural family planning as a way of women using their own cycle,” said Dr. Mary Keuhl.
I just found out I'm a "providentialist"
Lastly, I think you (and Ike) have an incomplete understanding of NFP and the Church’s teaching here. It sounds as if you believe we are supposed to be providentialists (think Duggars) when it comes to our family sizes and situations. Rather, NFP when taught with the mind and heart of the Church emphasizes prayerful discernment. The language used in the CCL course is specific: postpone/achieve pregnancy, as opposed to (what seems to be your main thrust in this discussion) prevent pregnancy.The AC article is a good read, it has to do with a WaPo piece on rebranding NFP for Catholics so its... I don't know, cooler. Definitely worth a read, and already like 150 comments. I think a good discussion though.
HT Brian H
You can only use NFP for grave reasons...What are these reasons?
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| Pope Pius XII Who Gave Us the Four "Grave Reasons" |
The last post about the sinfulness of contraception and sterilization (Read: 6 Reasons Why Contraception is Sinful) stirred up some comments about natural family planning (NFP). NFP is a popular contemporary term for "periodic continence." NFP works by observing the cycles of a wife's fertility and then avoiding the nuptial embrace during her times of fertility so as to avoid pregnancy. In NFP, the husband and wife abstain from the nuptial embrace altogether during the time of the wife's monthly fertility.continue at Canterbury Tales
The Church allows married couples to practice periodic continence only for grave or serious reasons. These reasons were explicitly listed by Pope Pius XII in his “Address to the Italian Catholic Union of Midwives" from 1951.
NFP or periodic continence can only lawfully be practiced without sin for grave reasons, which he lists as “medical, eugenic, economic, and social” reasons.
If a couple is healthy, financially secure, and living in a stable community, then recourse to NFP is contrary to the mind of the Christ's Church and sinful.
Note that NFP or "periodic continence" in itself is morally neutral since observing a woman's cycle and remaining continent are morally neutral. Therefore, NFP is not intrinsically evil. Artificial contraception (condoms, the pill, interuptus) are intrinsically evil because they directly intervene in the natural process. Artificial contraception obstructs the natural act either through devices, chemicals, or direction intervention.
So then, NFP can be used when there is a proper "grave"or "serious" circumstance, and the Holy Father provides four such circumstances. Let's go through these four grave reasons.
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