Couple to Couple League Archives - Natural Family Planning | Fertility Awareness

Wholehearted Living and the Gift of Self

Viva and Chase Crouse live in Texas with their four children. They share a vocation rooted in faith, family life, and service. As the co-founders of Hypuro Fit, a Catholic-based personal training and nutrition coaching company, they integrate Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body with exercise and nutrition science to help clients…

Lent, Love, and the Discipline of Life

Each Lent, Christians are invited into a deeper conversion through the practices of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer. Yes, these disciplines are seasonal obligations; they are also ways of forming the heart to love more authentically. For couples who practice Natural Family Planning (NFP) and strive to live a pro-life commitment, these same spiritual habits often…

A Warm Welcome for NFP at AAPLOG 2026

The 2026 meeting of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) brought together hundreds of physicians, students, nurses, and healthcare professionals in Seattle—many of whom are eager to learn more about fertility awareness and restorative reproductive medicine. With 334 registrants and strong student participation, the conference offered an encouraging glimpse of a growing…

At The Heart Of It

2026 marks the 55th year CCL has been in existence. CCL is teaching couples how to understand and embrace their fertility and live their marriage vocation as God planned it. This milestone has me reflecting on why we have survived for more than half a century. At the heart of it, CCL is still here…

More than just a Fertility Awareness Method

I love that the Couple to Couple League (CCL) has never just taught the Sympto-Thermal Method. Why? Because to practice a fertility awareness method of family planning successfully, you need more than head knowledge. CCL has always been structured to provide whatever couples need live out the call to marital love as God designed. And…

NFP at the DMV

Pope Saint John Paul II spoke extensively about the “Springtime of the New Evangelization” and the need for members of the body of Christ to go forth and spread the good news of the gospel. I have taken this as a personal mission of mine ever since my reversion 18 years ago. I told the…

Board of Directors Gains Varied Expertise

The CCL board of directors has gained several well-suited members in the last year, including its first-ever bishop. On July 1, Bishop Michael Sheridan of the Diocese of Colorado Springs began his service on the CCL Board. A native of St. Louis, Mo., Bishop Sheridan was ordained a priest in 1971. He went on to…

Will You be the Parent of my Children?

Humanae Vitae Giving Day * * * by Janet Smith When John Paul II was a professor of philosophy, he wrote Love and Responsibility, wherein he attempted to give a philosophical justification for his claim that contraception is not compatible with human love. In brief, to say to another that one is willing to be…

How Humanae Vitae Inspired a Mission

Humanae Vitae Giving Day * * * by Chris Reynolds In his encyclical Humanae Vitae, Paul VI wrote, “[T]here comes to be included in the vast pattern of the vocation of the laity a new and most noteworthy form of the apostolate of like to like; it is married couples themselves who become apostles and…