Archive for November 2023
Serving the Church, Impacting Others
By Savanna Duca for Family Foundations magazine. If Crystal Wen wasn’t an eye doctor, she’d be an OB-GYN. An optometry professor in awe of human creation, she realized early on that teaching Natural Family Planning (NFP) was a way she’d love to strengthen her marriage and serve the Church. Her husband Matthew agreed wholeheartedly. “We…
Read More2023 Has Been a Big Year for CCL!
Written by Mike Manhart, PhD, Board Chair. Originally published in Family Foundations. In February, we launched PeakDay to our existing CycleProGo accounts. The new app makes the user experience charting fertility significantly easier and more intuitive. By Fall, we completed work on the ‘back end’ so the app is now fully up to date and…
Read MoreFinally…It’s “Go Time!” for CCL New Projects
By Katie Zulanas, CCL Executive Director. Originally published in Family Foundations. I have been looking forward to shouting “It’s Go Time!” for months now — and I can hardly believe we are finally here! We have not one, but TWO new products to help us share the gift of Humanae Vitae.“ I have chosen you…
Read More“Wait, Do You Only Have Two Kids?”
Written by Lisa Cotter. Originally published in Family Foundations. Can you remember the first time someone explained what the little phrase “being open to life” means in the Catholic world? I know I can. It was at youth group in high school and I remember thinking, “Okay, but I bet nobody actually follows that.” I…
Read More“Promote CCL” October 2023 Round-Up
October was the month our TC’s and Promoters let us know about their work in their local Dioceses! Amazingly, not only do they promote, offer their usual NFP courses live and online, and lead hundreds of chart reviews for their students, but they also manage to make themselves available for presentations and various events where they…
Read MoreNatural Plan has Something for Everyone
Written for Family Foundations magazine by Martha Haenni Natural Plan is for everyone who wants to learn about Natural Family Planning. It was created specifically for parishes and dioceses to have a simple way to introduce NFP to their Catholic communities. We suggest using this course for newly engaged couples in Marriage Prep courses or…
Read MoreA New Introduction to NFP
Written for Family Foundations magazine by Martha Haenni We are excited to share with you a new program from CCL, to introduce couples to Natural Family Planning BEFORE they learn an NFP method. For 50 years, we have taught NFP to hundreds of thousand of couples. Couples come to us with these questions… “Why do…
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