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Natural Family Planning
What is the Catholic Church’s position on IVF?
By Peter Pinedo CNA Staff, Feb 28, 2024 / 18:13 pm Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are human children, debate over fertility treatment has erupted anew. Here’s everything you need to know. What is IVF? IVF is a medical procedure that fuses …
Natural Family Planning Awareness Week Q&A with Adriana Vasquez
We sat down with Adriana Vasquez in honor of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week. Adriana is the Managing Director of Marriage and Family Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. She offers support and formation to parish leaders on the marriage catechumenate. She is …
How three dioceses are bringing NFP to Hispanic Catholics
by Mary Farrow Denver Newsroom, Jul 23, 2020 / 04:43 pm MT (CNA).- Susana Diaz gets a kick out of watching couples’ faces during their first marriage preparation class. Diaz, who is the manager of marriage ministries for the Archdiocese of Miami, said she likes watching people realize they will …
Seize the Moment for October: Pope revises catechism teaching on death penalty
The Catechism reads a little differently now as of Aug. 1. The pope revised paragraph 2267 on capital punishment to read as follows: Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes …
CCL Conference celebrates Humanae Vitae anniversary
By Gail Finke Hundreds of people traveled from across the country to Cincinnati, many with large families in tow, for the Couple to Couple League’s conference on the 50thanniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on birth control. Now lauded as prophetic by many conservatives and social scientists, the encyclical titled …
Natural family planners cautious about new fertility monitoring apps
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — As new fertility monitoring apps such as Clue and Glow make news, specialists in natural family planning caution that any technological application is only as good as the expertise behind it and the comfort level of its users.
Programs aid those preparing for marriage
Friday, June 12, 2009 ARCHDIOCESE — Marriage preparation programs are geared toward deepening a couple’s awareness of the challenges of living together in marriage as they ready themselves for a lifelong commitment to each other and the faith community of the Catholic Church. A variety of options are available and …