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9 Uplifting Bible Verses for Couples Struggling with Infertility

By Susan Ciancio / January 31, 2024 /
Woman bible scriptures on knee, praying to God, hope and trust, bible verses about infertility

…on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.” It goes on to say: “The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness…

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The Creighton Model of Natural Family Planning

By Susan Ciancio / June 13, 2024 /
natural family planning chart

…this. Table of Contents Why Go Natural for Family Planning? About the Creighton Model FertilityCare™ System Origin of the Creighton Model Advantages of the Creighton Model Efficacy of the Creighton…

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Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-5: The Change in Terminology

By Susan Ciancio / February 25, 2022 /
Transgenderism: About Transgender

…who know someone affected. A June 2021 Pew Research poll addressed this. According to the poll, 42% of Americans say they know someone who considers themselves transgender. Thus, it is…

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Living an Authentic Catholic Life Means Teaching the Truth about Transgenderism

By Susan Ciancio / August 28, 2023 /
Child with rainbow painted face

…Alfred Kinsey was another man who began teaching that sexuality could be fluid. He began his research career as an entomologist, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s, after…

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We Can Be Beacons of Light

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet / September 23, 2024 /

…now are legion. Gone are the days when faith permeated every aspect of the culture. Those were the times when shrines to Our Lady marked public crossroads, when national holidays…

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Parents and Medical Decisions: Fight the Revolution

By Dr. Joseph Meaney / July 19, 2018 /
rights of parents

…other most basic measures to keep the dying person comfortable. The Church teaches we must provide ordinary care. Another crucial aspect of this ordinary vs. extraordinary means distinction involves the…

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Her Story: Norma McCorvey of Roe v. Wade

By Susan Ciancio / August 28, 2020 /
Norma McCorvey of Roe v Wade

…entirely skips this whole aspect of her life—an aspect I was deeply involved in day by day for 22 years, as we counseled her through the grief, the nightmares and…

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Love and Fertility

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / May 12, 2021 /

…moral norm (which he calls “ethos”) and the living out of the objective moral norm. It’s about the continuity between the subjective aspect (not subjectivism) and the objective aspect of…

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The Teaching of the Prophetic Encyclical Humanae Vitae (Part XII)

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / November 24, 2021 /
The Second Vatican Council

…harmonizing conjugal love with the responsible transmission of life, the moral aspects of any procedure does [sic] not depend solely on sincere intentions or on an evaluation of motives but…

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Using the Theology of the Body To Teach Chastity to Young Adult Children

By Adolfo J. Castañeda / April 29, 2022 /
parent and young adult talking with coffee

…inherent in this public aspect of marriage. Therefore, they are also wrong on that account. In fact, premarital relations and cohabitation are intrinsically and gravely evil. And those who engage…

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