by Vince Sacksteder Spreading the Culture of Death seems to be as easy as growing dandelions while building the Civilization of Love seems to be as tough as growing prize roses. Going the easy way, however, yields very bitter fruit, and taking the more challenging path brings fulfillment of all our best heart’s desires. With …
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Por: Bonnie Borel-Donohue ¿Quién podría ser el mejor ejemplo de cómo amar a su cónyuge que el Máximo Amante, Dios? Pero, ¿cómo ama Dios? Después de haber meditado sobre esta pregunta, el Papa Pablo VI y el Papa Juan Pablo II discernieron cuatro características claves del amor de Dios. El amor de Dios es siempre: …
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Cuatro médicos que no prescriben anticonceptivos dan razones médicas para esta decisión. Explican como los anticonceptivos causan muchos efectos nocivos médicos, sociales, y espirituales, y como la Planificación Natural de la Familia es una alternativa saludable y eficaz.
Sterilization Reversal – A Generous Act of Love is the result of nearly four years of effort by 20 families who were once sterilized and then experienced God’s call to reversal.
La Planificación Natural de la Familia (PNF) es uno de esos dones de Dios que sigue mejorando más y más. Este artículo, tomado del libro Called to Give Life (Llamados a dar vida), presenta en forma sistemática las buenas consecuencias para las parejas que usan la PNF.
When a couple realizes that contraception is a bad choice, what can they do next? Patty Schneier faced this crisis, and shares her hard-earned wisdom.
How effective are contraceptives used after sexual intercourse and what problems are connected with them.
Do you want a more fulfilling, more satisfying relationship with your spouse? Based on the four essential characteristics of authentic marital love, this pamphlet will give you quick yet profound insights and the keys to unlocking your heart and the heart of your beloved.
One More Soul is pleased to offer this “newspaper” response to the HHS mandate
as a supplement to the resources already available from the USCCB and other sources. It is an educational piece
that draws attention to several “concerns” prompted by the HHS mandate.
Twelve-Year Review (2000-2012) of Published NFP Studies by categories such as Method Specific Efficacy Studies, Special Circumstances/Breastfeeding/Post OC, Psychological Dynamics, Attitudes, and Characteristics of NFP/FA Users.
The medical community and most family planning advocates consider vasectomy safe and simple. This pamphlet provides current research on vasectomy that indicates the procedure has a number of short- and long-term complications and is not a healthy choice.
Here is everything you wanted to tell your married child, and everything you wish your parents had told you about marriage. First Comes Love is a collection of the very best the Church has to offer to help couples have long and very happy marriages.
Steve Patton explica claramente por qué la sabiduría para todos los tiempos de la Iglesia que trata del amor conyugal trae mucha alegría a las parejas casadas y una profunda satisfacción para los sacerdotes que les sirven.
In the following meditation, we are asked to reflect on
Jesus Christ, from the moment he is conceived by
the Holy Spirit to the day of his birth.
Let’s be honest, Movies & TV aren’t the best place to get ideas about how dating should start and progress. If you want real love, you have to build a real friendship. Think about who, why & how you are choosing to love!
This article is a complete overview of modern Natural Family Planning, describing methods of NFP, its advantages, potential problems with other forms of family planning, and resources for NFP training.
National speaker Emily Sederstrand encourages moms with 2-4 young children. The first five years are the hardest!! Then it gets easier.
Debido a diversos problemas con la píldora, muchas personas están buscando alternativas. Estos son los principales usos de la píldora, cómo funciona y alternativas eficaces.
Due to various problems with the Pill, many people are looking for alternatives. Here are the major uses of the Pill, how it works, and effective alternatives.
Practically speaking, widespread use of contraception has led directly to massive increases of divorce and abortion. Personal union and yearning for fertility are written physically into the structure of sexual relations, and shutting down one of these aspects hurts the whole relationship. Steve Patton provides practical, workable steps we can take to regain the overflowing life that God desires for us.
This is the class diagram used in the Teaching Fertility Awareness curriculum designed by Ross and Lisa Novack.
Online publications fostering God’s plan for love, marriage, and procreation, emphasizing the blessings of children and the harms of contraception.
A letter based on Scripture meant to help a young woman to know God’s incredible love for her.
A letter based on Scripture meant to help a young man to know what God truly thinks of him and calls him to.
In this article Dr. Fernandez describes the spiritual struggle of removing contraceptives and sterilization from his practice. He then explains the damage (physical, emotional, and relational) from contraception, and the corresponding benefits from Natural Family Planning.
This poster dramatically presents contraception as the root of the culture of death and chastity as the way to a healthy society.
This is the chart for the Fertility Appreciation class for clients in a pregnancy support center.
Online publications fostering God’s plan for love, marriage, and procreation, emphasizing the blessings of children and the harms of contraception.
When use of the contraceptive pill saturated US society during the years 1960 through 1980, there was an increase in the US divorce rate that followed the increase in pill use with remarkable conformity. Various social scientists have concluded that this is no coincidence. This document includes a graph of the US divorce rate from 1880 to 2002 and a table of historical events of these times that shed some light on the story the graph tells.
This is a collection of resources for pastors and other pastoral leaders to help present the ancient and powerful wisdom of the Christian church on married sexuality.Includes a collection of homilies addressing these concerns; background from the Church fathers, Scripture, and magisterial teaching; and practical pointers for transmitting this wisdom.
Frs. Habiger and McCaffrey tour the United States giving parish missions that introduce people to the Church’s teachings about marriage, sexuality, and contraception. They have talked with hundreds of pastors about these issues, and in this booklet they discuss common reasons why pastors don’t teach about these issues from the pulpit.
Online publications fostering God’s plan for love, marriage, and procreation, emphasizing the blessings of children and the harms of contraception.
Many pastors need help in presenting the Church’s wisdom on married sexuality. This article (taken from Called to Give Life, by Jason Adams) presents a wealth of workable suggestions in this area. Example: seven pages of suggested occasions where a homily on Christian marriage would fit right in.
This article gives the necessary tools for teaching a changed lifestyle to clients of a pregnancy support center. It is also an effective tool for presenting chastity to young adults and other single people. The program teaches just how precious our procreative powers are, and how to manage them in a way that builds up our lives.
In this book Pope John Paul II turns to the central conflict of our time: Will humans be valued for themselves, or will we be made into commodities for use and/or destruction. He views this as a struggle between the Civilization of Love and the Culture of Death, and labels contraception and abortion fruits from the same tree.
This article contaings powerful tools that anyone can use to defeat the culture of death.
In this article Joseph and Elsy Arlinghaus open their hearts to their parish in a talk about the harm done by contraception and the benefits of Natural Family Planning.
This article contains the summary and conclusions from the book Breast Cancer, Its Link to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill.
The article is the true story of one couples struggle with contraception. Ruth tells how contraception, followed by sterilization, filled their marriage with bitter self-centeredness. Later, through repentance and conversion, they found renewed hope and joy.
In this article Archbishop Chaput explains what married love is and provides advice on valuing both the unitive and the procreative aspect of married life. For priests and laity he answers specific questions and provides powerful encouragement to follow the teaching of Humanae Vitae.
Contraception is often presented as a mere flaw in an otherwise loving and fruitful marriage relationship. This article, taken from the book Called to Give Life, shows exactly how and why contraception obstructs and defeats the generous flow of love between the spouses and God and from one spouse to the other.
This article offers sensitive and helpful guidance for couples discerning how soon to welcome another child.
Cuán efectivos son los anticonceptivos utilizados después del acto sexual y qué problemas están conectados con ellos.
¡Descubre como la castidad significa mucho más que decir no al sexo; significa decir sí al verdadero auténtico amor, y a mucho más!
Como las mujeres jóvenes pueden afirmar y defender su valor como personas
Una descripción completa de métodos modernos de Planificación Natural de la Família.
Historias conmovedoras de tres parejas que optaron la esterilización y más adelante recibieron la gracia de revocar esta operación. Revisado nuevamente y aumentado.
Basándose en las Escrituras y en el sentido común, el Obispo Galeone comparte la sabiduría antigua y poderoso de la Iglesia sobre el matrimonio y la sexualidad. El trata extensivamente con las preguntas sobre la anticoncepción y la Planificación Natural de la Familia. Frase clásica: “¿Es normal para una esposa que se ponga tapones en los oídos mientras está escuchando a su esposo?”
Todos los métodos principales de anticoncepción, cómo funcionan y las consecuencias de la salud.
La Doctora Menart apremia la gente en el movimiento pro-vida trabajar contra anticoncepción. Ella nota que la mayoría de los anticonceptivos causan abortos. También, el uso de los anticonceptivos da a una relación sexual de modo que la pareja se aponga a tener nios, y el aborto puede parecer atractiva o aun necesario.
Online publications fostering God’s plan for love, marriage, and procreation, emphasizing the blessings of children and the harms of contraception.
¿Cómo los niños son una bendición? Este artículo le informara que la enseñanza de la Iglesia sobre la anticoncepción no es solamente una prohibición sino un llamado a la alegría de la paternidad.
La Doctora Ann Moell le diga a sus pacientes de su corazón porqué ella elige no prescribir los anticonceptivos para ellos. Esta es una referencia magnífica para cualquier médico que haya elegido apoyar a sus pacientes de esta manera.
Cómo llegamos de la anticoncepción por razones “serias” al aborto (aún al aborto por parto parcial/infanticidio) por cualquiera y toda razón, y cómo recobrar la cordura, este folleto describe la historia de gran éxito del movimiento anticonceptivo en nuestro tiempo. Entonces describe estrategias factibles para regresar a la forma que era antes.
Este folleto explica, en una forma corta y precisa, lo que toda mujer debe saber acerca de los efectos reales causados por el uso de los dispositivos intrauterinos.
Este folleto brinda una descripcin sencilla de los tipos de esterilizacin femenina, y de las consecuencias fsicas, mentales y morales que toda mujer debe considerar antes de tomar una seria decisión como lo es esterilizarse y las alternativas que existen.
Folleto a todo color que describe 20 maneras en que las hombres jóvenes (y todos hombres) pueden desafiarse a ser mas y mas como Cristo!
Dr. Fernandez nos habla como católico, esposo, padre y médico, tiene esperanzas de que usted tome conciencia de – Los efectos negativos que la anticoncepción; -El don que la Iglesia Católica nos ha hecho con la planificación natural de la familia; y -El plan que Dios tiene para el matrimonio.
El autór demuestra cómo los anticonceptivos crean la “necesidad” de el aborto, tratando a los niños como cargas que se evitarán a toda costa. De fuentes tales como la Corte Suprema, los científicos sociales, y los filósofos, este folleto demuestra que la anticoncepción es la fundación para el aborto.
Esta cartel dramáticamente presenta la anticoncepción como la raíz de la Cultura de la muerte y la castidad como el camino a una sociedad saludable.
Información del libro Breast Cancer, Its Link to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill. Esto es una verdadera sorpresa para la gente que pensaba que la Píldora era inofensiva.
Información contenida en el libro Breast Cancer, It’s Link to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill, presentada en forma breve y muy persuasiva. Hemos recibido cartas y llamadas telefónicas contándonos que las vidas de varios bebés fueron salvadas cuando sus madres, quienes consideraban el aborto, leyeron este folleto.
This article is a meditation on the spiritual dimension and driving force of Catholic health care.
This article tells of how a mother of four received the grace to welcome one more.
This pamphlet explains what every woman should know about the risks associated with the use of the intra-uterine devices (IUD/IUS).
In this article Ann Moell MD speaks to her patients from her heart about why she chooses not to prescribe contraceptives for them. This is a geat resource for any doctor who has chosen to support patients in this way.
In this article the author shows how contraceptives create a
This article, taken from the book Called to Give Life, shows beautifully and poetically just what a blessing children are.
Some gifts from God just keep getting better as we unpack them. Natural Family Planning is one of these. This article, taken from the book Called to Give Life, presents systematically the good consequences for couples using NFP.
This article, taken from the book Called to Give Life, traces the Bible’s opposition to contraception from Genesis to Revelation with wonderful clarity.
In this article, Dr Koob calls pro-life workers to oppose contraception, which is the main source of the situations which lead to abortion.
This pamphlet describes the history of the contraceptive movement’s overwhelming success in our day, and describes workable strategies for turning this around.
This article stresses the importance of keeping basic NFP information on hand all the time for people are hungry for it.
This article draws from Scripture and from common sense. Bishop Galeone shares the Church’s ancient and powerful wisdom about marriage and sexuality. He deals extensively with questions of contraception and Natural Family Planning.
This article is the story of one pharmacist’s decision to stop dispensing contraceptives; why and how he did it.
In this article Dr. Menart urges pro-lifers to work against contraception, pointing out that most contraceptives cause abortions and that using contraceptives turns a sexual relationship so much against children that abortion can seem attractive or even necessary.
This article is the personal letter of one woman thanking her husband for his gift of sterilization reversal.
This article is the personal letter of one woman thanking her husband for his gift of sterilization reversal.
This article contains the moving stories of three couples who chose sterilization and later received the grace to reverse this operation.
In this article two teachers from a pregnancy help center tell how clients of the center have been helped to establish a new lifestyle through learning the basics of NFP and the value of their fertility.
This article is the text of a stirring sermon exhorting people to turn away from contraception and to espouse natural family planning. Fr. Suriani makes the case that contraception is at the root of abortion and many other evils.
What a Woman Should Know About Contraceptives contains information on all the major methods of contraception, with their methods of action and health consequences. Natural Family Planning is also presented briefly as a beneficial alternative.
This article contains clear and persuasive information about the connection between breast cancer and abortion.
In this pamphlet, Dr Ann Moell describes her conversion from prescribing contraceptives to guiding her patients to a more healthful lifestyle.
In this article Dr. Kahlenborn provides much scientific detail in a very user friendly format to show how contraceptive pills work. He gives special attention to the Pill’s abortive action. In an appendix, he analyzes and refutes arguments from a group of doctors who asserted that the Pill does not cause abortions.
What does the Bible say about contraception? The Second Vatican Council’s statement on Divine Revelation teaches us that interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures must devote attention to “the content and unity of the whole of scripture, taking into account the tradition of the entire Church…”1 Much more than a moral manual or a doctrinal concordance, …
The testimony of one couple and their journey from the verge of divorce to healing and happiness.
Newly revised and updated in August 2011. How the Pill increases the risk of breast cancer, and effective strategies for prevention. Women who take contraceptive pills before their first full pregnancy are 44% more likely to develop breast cancer before menopause. This is a real eye opener for people who thought the Pill was harmless.
Summaries, study questions, and reflection questions.
Four physicians who do not prescribe hormonal birth control give medical reasons for this decision. They explain that HBC causes many potential adverse effects that are medical, social, and spiritual, and that Natural Family Planning is a healthy and effective alternative.
Explains in simple language what tubal ligation is; the physical, mental and moral consequences that a woman should consider before making the serious decision to become sterile; and what alternatives exist.
Find out how chastity is about so much more than saying no to sex but about saying yes to real authentic love and much more!
This new full-color pamplet lists 20 ways young (and all) women can challenge themselves to give and receive only the best God intends for them.
Full-color pamphlet listing 20 ways young (and all) men can challenge themselves to be more like Christ!
