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The reception of Natural Family Planning by the Catholic faithful is important to consider as it ought to influence the pastoral accompaniment of married couples. As we look into the unchanging moral principles at work and examine what pastoral outreach happens in these areas, I would like to propose a helpful analogy: we will call it NFP Mountain. The summit of this mountain represents the beautiful and unchanging truths championed by the Catholic Church regarding the human

Throughout our engagement, my wife and I must have given off the sense that we were immensely happy. A good number of our family and friends felt a burning need to remind us that “marriage is hard, too, sometimes.” It was a bit comical how often we received statements along these lines. I haven’t heard much about warning happy couples that hard times are ahead, but we certainly got it. Looking back, these folks meant well, but I wonder if they, like so many couples, have a mi

I was enjoying an afternoon run with a friend of mine and, as we ran along, he recounted his experience attending the first Mass of a priest friend of his. At the conclusion of the Mass, his priest friend had remarked, “I became a priest because I love Jesus so much!” Striding along, my friend remarked, “That is a terrible reason to become a priest, I love Jesus, too.” For us get-in-exercise when you can, husband-fathers, he's got a point. We, too, love Jesus. For you see, th