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Dads, Daughters and NFP

Written by Jim Volpe. Originally published in Family Foundations. My dad has two sons, so I always had first-hand experience being a father to boys. When my first daughter was born, I wasn’t sure I knew what to do. I was still figuring out women at the time, having only been married 3 years, but…

CCL Central New Office Blessing

Written by Martha Haenni This summer, CCL’s Central office in Cincinnati moved into a larger, remodeled space within the Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center building. Early in September, Fr. Rob Jack, Theology instructor at the Cincinnati Athenaeum and host of Driving Home the Faith radio show on 910 AM Sacred Heart Radio, toured…

Prayerfully Discerning With NFP

Written for Family Foundations magazine by Celine Gaeta. Ted and Kimberly Goll live near Denver, CO, and have been a Couple to Couple League NFP teaching couple for years. Responsible parenthood has not only been an important principle for their life choices, but it is an integral part of their mission and message when teaching…

“Promote CCL” August 2023 Round-Up

NFP in Action during the Month of August Like the weather during this past month of August, our CCL Promoters and Teaching Couples were on a hot streak advancing the good tidings of natural family planning! The Fertility Science Institute Directory (fertilityscienceinstitute.org) is the star this month as there were several new medical professionals…

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…

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…