NFP Awareness Week Archives

Be Part of Our Humanae Vitae Video!

We are doing something big for NFP Awareness Week this year — and we need your help! We want to reawaken the world to Humanae Vitae through a video of personal testimonials. Would you please record a short video with your spouse? We’re looking for two components in a super-short video. (It could be just…

Humanae Vitae 45 Years Later: Part V

Part 5: Dissenters and Living Martyrs Bob & Gerri Laird This week marks national NFP Awareness Week as well as the 45th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. The final installment of this series honors those clergy who stood up in the face of dissent. History is worth repeating. On the 25th Anniversary of Humanae…

Humanae Vitae 45 Years Later: Part IV

Part 4: Natural Family Planning…a loving response Bob & Gerri Laird This week marks national NFP Awareness Week as well as the 45th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Part 4 of this series explores Natural Family Planning. What is the role of Natural Family Planning (NFP) with regard to HV? Humanae Vitae encourages…

Humanae Vitae 45 Years Later: Part III

Part 3: Humanae Vitae in 21st Century Language Bob & Gerri Laird This week marks national NFP Awareness Week as well as the 45th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Part 3 of this series explores Humanae Vitae’s arguments via the modern language of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. In his writings and…

Humanae Vitae 45 Years Later: Part II

Part 2: Prophecies Fulfilled Bob & Gerri Laird This week marks national NFP Awareness Week as well as the 45th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Part 2 of this series points to how much Pope Paul VI’s prophetic vision has come true. Why is HV significant today? Humanae Vitae was prophetic. Pope Paul VI…

Humanae Vitae 45 Years Later: Is it Still Relevant?

Part 1: The Setting by Bob & Gerri Laird This week marks national NFP Awareness Week as well as the 45th anniversary of the encyclical Humanae Vitae. Part 1 of this series looks at the culture and context in which this famous document was introduced. What is Humanae Vitae (HV)? Humanae Vitae is the encyclical…

The Truth about NFP Leads to Responsibility

This NFP Awareness Week guest post is by CCL Teacher Gerri Laird. Today’s giveaway: We will select one winner randomly from those who comment on this post by the close of NFP Awareness Week (Sunday, July 31 at midnight) who will receive a copy of Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition by Marilyn Shannon. It’s Natural Family…

NFP: No Holding Back

This is a guest post for NFP Week by CCL Teacher Ellen Hrkach, from her blog Plot Line and Sinker. “The total physical self-giving would be a lie if it were not the sign and fruit of a total personal self-giving, in which the whole person, including the temporal dimension, is present: if the person…

It’s National NFP Awareness Week!

Not only is this week National NFP Awareness Week, but today is also the 43rd anniversary of the issuance of Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI. While most of the world pays little or no heed to the Holy Father’s prophetic wisdom in that encyclical letter, those of us who (for the most part) happily…