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NFP and the Church

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

A friend shares his thoughts to John concerning the Church and NFP.

John,
Thanks for sharing.  I pray to God, our Lord and Savior that the truth you expound will reach the hearts of many so you will receive the support you need!

I believe NFP is truly one of the Church’s answers to so many of the ills of our society today (pornography, contraception, divorce, homosexuality, abortion.).  I believe these ills are due to the local churches lack of teaching in the area of sex.  The ultimate result (or outcome) of the teaching of the Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul the Great is NFP used in marriage; but most people ignore these issues of our society and so does the Church.  The Catholics in the pew don’t know about NFP and could care less because frankly, they want to control their lives and they don’t:  1) trust God enough, 2) take the vows of Marriage seriously, 3) know or care what the Church teaches especially on birth control.   Of course, you know why – it takes sacrifice to live a chaste life, to have kids, and not many people are willing to sacrifice themselves for the truth like you are.    What a mess!!!

I praise God for you and Sheila!  Sexual issues have made our society the culture of death because the devil has helped us enslave ourselves to these sins.  I am just agreeing with your cause …so no sense in going on and on.  Sexual sins and the results of sexual sin is everywhere …the mindset of our new world.  It is affecting everything!  We can’t even get a bus load of folks to go to Washington DC this year for the prolife cause!  …who wants to sacrifice?

God bless you and keep the faith.  We will be having our pastor over for supper soon and when we do, I will speak to him about having NFP classes as a requirement of Marriage prep at our parish  ..we will see!  I think I know the answer here again, but I will ask / promote /and encourage him to do so.

Keep trying!
YBIJ

YOUTUBE:  I read an article on animation recently in the Wall Street Journal.  As a result I went to one of the animation sites to promote NFPI and here is the result. Sheila

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NFP: Most Difficult Apostolate in the Church

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Church Teaching on NFP
What is the most difficult apostolate in the Catholic Church?  The effort to teach chaste natural family planning is the most difficult apostolate in the Church because it defends and supports the teaching affirmed by Humanae Vitae, and no other moral teaching has been so widely attacked and/or ignored right within the Church by both clergy and laity.

This rejection has had disastrous results.  The 2010 version of the periodic NIH Family Growth Survey indicates that only one-tenth of one percent of the survey responders use some form of NFP.  Among Catholic responders, the overall figure was two-tenths of one percent, and among regular church-going Catholics the percentage was still only four-tenths of one percent.  There is a problem with these numbers because they do not include women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, or just letting the babies come as they may, but even after making all sorts of allowances for errors, there is no reason to think that over five percent of Western fertile-age couples are living according to the teaching of the Church.  Considering the ubiquity of International Planned Parenthood, the figures are probably not much better in less developed countries.

The effort of the NFP International apostolate is even more difficult because this apostolate also promotes ecological breastfeeding.

Third, the NFPI apostolate sometimes meets additional difficulties because we teach marital chastity.  That is, we know that some or many married couples will be tempted to engage in masturbation or marital sodomy during the fertile time, so we pass on the traditional Christian teaching against these sinful behaviors.  This is certainly not our favorite subject, but in today’s culture, these things need to be said.  Fortunately, it takes us only about a minute or less to say what has to be said.

If you want the double satisfaction of working to meet a challenge and then knowing that you have helped some other couples in this extremely important area of life, consider teaching NFP with us.

If interested in teaching for NFPI, please read our teaching manual on the home page, Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach.  After completing the reading, we hope you are even more excited about teaching with us and will get in touch with us.  You can contact us by email at our website.

John and Sheila Kippley

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Mother Teresa and Natural Family Planning

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

One time during a conference John and Fr. John Hardon were discussing natural family planning.  John wondered what kind of natural family planning Mother Teresa taught to the poor.  Fr. Hardon said, “Let’s call her up.”  Father called Mother Teresa immediately and John had the privilege of talking to her over the phone.  She said some of her nuns teach temperature-only and some nuns teach mucus-only.

In her lecture when she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she said this about natural family planning where only the temperature sign was mentioned:
“We are doing another thing which is very beautiful—we are teaching our beggars, our leprosy patients, our slum dwellers, our people of the street, natural family planning.  And in Calcutta alone in six years—it is all in Calcutta—we have had 61,273 babies less from the families who would have had, but because they practice this natural way of abstaining, of self-control, out of love for each other. We teach them the temperature meter which is very beautiful, very simple, and our poor people understand.”

And again in this talk, Mother says:  “The poor people are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful things. The other day one of them came to thank and said: You people who have vowed chastity—you are the best people to teach us family planning. Because it is nothing more than self-control out of love for each other.”

Sheila Kippley
Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach

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