NFP: Sweetness and Light by Sara Fox Peterson
By Sara Fox Peterson • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Columnists, Sara Fox Peterson
So NFP is great, right? (more…)
So NFP is great, right? (more…)
In the very first column I wrote for CatholicMom.com (Natural Family Planning – Why Not?) I mentioned that the issue of freedom of conscience (more…)
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 already been sterilized. (more…)
Imagine two hypothetical couples, each with the same number of children, the same financial and material resources, the same psychological stresses (more…)
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, (more…)
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. (more…)
Within weeks of giving birth to my second child the questions started:
“Will you have another?”
“When?”
“How many are you planning to have?” (more…)
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 (more…)
I recently asked my husband why using NFP to avoid pregnancy sometimes feels so much less certain than using a contraceptive. (more…)
1. NFP is difficult to self-teach. (more…)
It is a widely discussed fact that approximately 90% of married Catholics today do not follow the Church’s teachings on family planning. (more…)








































































