From the Executive Director Archives - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

Foundations for Family

Thank you to the CCL family as we step into the breach – we reach out to help families have a chance with learning about the beautiful gift of fertility through their lifetime.  After consistent work we have workshops that are finally underway – in parishes, college campuses and in pregnancy centers across the US. Our global reach…

Rooted In Life

Here’s something Tom and I come back to often: you can’t really separate the pro-life conviction from how a couple lives out their fertility. They’re not two different things. They’re the same thing. NFP is rooted in life. If we believe every human life is sacred — and we do — then fertility, the very…

What Will Your “55” Be?

Couple to Couple League is founded on the plan for “married couples themselves who become apostles and guides to other married couples.” (Humanae Vitae 26) Join us in celebrating faithfully carrying out this mission from its start with John and Sheila Kippley to this, our 55th year! We dedicate our first CCL Mass of the…

A Banner Year

This year marks a sacred and extraordinary milestone—our organization’s 55th anniversary. For more than five decades, our shared commitment has transformed lives and empowered students, families, and the wider community. As we celebrate this landmark, we invite you—our volunteers, donors, and supporters—to embrace this “banner year” as both a time of achievement and a spiritual…

Positioned for Impact: CCL at SENT

The Couple to Couple League (CCL) continues to stand at the forefront of faith, fertility, and innovation. Earlier this fall, Executive Director Katie Zulanas represented CCL at the SENT Ventures Summit, held September 8–11, 2025, on the campus of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The event gathered Catholic business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs in…

From Promoters to Teaching Couple

My husband Tom and I recently advanced in our CCL training—from being Promoters to becoming a Certified Teaching Couple. What a great decision! We have been happily surprised by how much fun we are having teaching and how enjoyable it is to work with our student couples. Everyone has their own style, but Tom’s “Dad”…

Lenten Stations to Begin Again

We find ourselves in Lent once more. It is a time to pause and to begin again. Saint Francis de Sales once said: “It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.” His wise words provide…

Making Straight the Path

Written by Katie Zulanas, Executive Director. In a “post-Roe” world, we have been inspired by and are asking for the intercession of John the Baptist as we “make straight the paths” to learning and living the NFP lifestyle. From his first powerful witness, when he leapt in the womb of his mother in greeting Mary…

Life Has Won

Written by Katie Zulanas, Executive Director. As I write this, I see the proclamation “Life has won!” and there is cause to rejoice with the overturning of Roe v Wade, and in my mind some acknowledgement can be made to the steadfast work of the members of the Couple to Couple League. Despite seemingly overwhelming…

Let the Celebration Continue…

“Whatever he tells you, do it,” was what Mary told the servants of the wedding in Cana. Leave it to our Mama Mary to be sensitive to the potential embarrassment to the bride and groom and their families of running short of wine. Mary turns to her son for help–with the remedy being no less…