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Welcome!
Welcome to the Diocese of
La Crosse Natural Family Planning Program Web Page. Take the
time to check out our site and learn more about the good
news of natural methods of family planning and Catholic
Church teachings on life and love. |
Natural Family
Planning
Office of Natural Family Planning
Coordinator:
Alice
Heinzen (click to email)
1-800-255-6226
What Couples
Say about Natural Family Planning
Click Here for a newspaper article.
 ...every effort must be
made to render knowledge of the bodily aspect and the body's
rhythms of fertility to all married people and also to young
adults before marriage...
Pope John Paul II
Familiaris Consortio #33
In loving the husband and wife
must turn the attention to each other, as happens in Natural
Family Planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception.
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception abortion
follows very easily.
Mother Theresa
Periodic continence, that is,
the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and
the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the
objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies
of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the
education of an authentic freedom.
Catechism of the Catholic
Church #2370
The way of living which follows
from the exercise of periodic continence leads the couple to
deepen their knowledge of each other and achieve a harmony of
body, mind and spirit which strengthens and encourages them on
their journey together through life. It is marked by a constant
dialogue and enriched by the tenderness of affection which
constitute the heart of human sexuality.
Mary Shivanandan, MA, STD
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