August 2023

Volunteering – Receive More Than You Ever Give!

Karen and I have sometimes wondered how it is we have been active volunteers for 35+ years. Looking back, a few key themes seem to explain our inability to stop. First, volunteering brought us together with other like-minded souls who have over the years become a cadre of lifelong friends. Second, volunteering gave us something that…

Morning Sickness and Self-Care

Author Marilyn Shannon offers pregnant women common sense self-care strategies that can help reduce morning sickness. In her booklet, Managing Morning Sickness, Marilyn, along with her daughter, Rosemary Shannon Imrick, who ‘field-tested’ of some of the suggestions, draws from medical research, her counseling experience, and her understanding of human physiology and shows that taking vitamins…

Tips for the Engaged and Charting

We are an engaged couple preparing for marriage. My fiancé and I are Catholic and talked a lot about our beliefs when we were first dating. One of those was Natural Family Planning (NFP). When we first got engaged, I made an appointment with a doctor who upheld Catholic teachings in her practice — including…

Promoting NFP with the Medical Community

Stacey Nagle, in the Diocese of Denver, CO, had the opportunity to share about CCL and NFP with a new local physician. This NaPro trained physician recently opened her own practice and began reaching out to parishes in the area to announce her business. Adrian and Stacey Nagle’s pastor received the information and passed it…

St. Philomena Novena & Pregnancy Intercessor

Young St. Philomena has been such a powerful intercessor, she’s actually the only saint who was canonized on the grounds of intercession alone. While miracles have been reported regarding a whole span of requests, she’s known as the patroness of babies, infants, and youth. It’s unsurprising, then, that she’s taken a special place in hearts…

The CCL STM Chart Over the Years

Written by Stacey Nagle, Elizabeth Timpe and Bernadette Jones. Originally published in Family Foundations. Have you ever tried to create your own chart? Perhaps you tried a spreadsheet or other alternative chart and experimented with other ways to input temperatures and add mucus observations. Or perhaps you had always thought about making your own but…

Connection of NFP and Odds of Divorce

Written by Jim Volpe. Originally published in Family Foundations. One of the many important endeavors that CCL has been working on throughout its history has been to establish NFP in the scientific community as a respectable option for family planning. Mike Manhart, Ph.D. and co-author, Richard Fehring, Ph.D, RN, FAAN from Marquette University took a…

“Promote CCL” July 2023 Round-Up

NFP in Action during the Month of July Our CCL Promoters and Teaching Couples were actively advocating NFP this past month! It was all about parish life in July as they could be found at information tables at their local parishes with bi-lingual displays, flyers, and brochures and booklets, as well as speaking to…

Pro-Life and Pro-NFP (Part 2)

Written by S.J. Duca. Originally published in Family Foundations. Part 2 of a 2 Part Series. A parent’s impact reverberates for generations. In three interviews across three states, I heard testimonies as to what a difference it makes when parents share with their children about the goodness of life and Natural Family Planning (NFP). These…