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Opinion: Rethinking Natural Family Planning, by Kevin Tierney  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Kevin Tierney, Catholic World Report, July 23, 2024

Kevin Tierney is a freelance writer living in Toledo, OH. His work may be viewed at kmtierney.substack.com or on X @Catholicsmark.

 

Periodic abstinence is not a five-year plan for marriages. It is not a new corporate vision. It is not central planning in marriage. In such a mindset, we become far removed from pondering and regulating our participation and understanding in a divine mystery.

This is “NFP Week” (July 21st-27th), which means there will inevitably be a lot of online discourse and discussion about Natural Family Planning (NFP), contraception, and how humans, in a limited capacity, interact with the miracle that is life.

I think that a lot of this discourse will be unhelpful. In some ways, it will be worse than unhelpful. Much discourse on this subject ranges from using the deceptive tactics of modern marketing to traumatizing Catholics who are often doing nothing contrary to the Magisterium and the consensus of proper morals in the Church. …

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