On Recent Calls to Make NFP "Cool..."
Lately I’ve been stumbling across articles in the mainstream
media about NFP, written by Catholic laywomen, who are taking a stab at the
mysterious reason that so many women ignore this Church teaching choose instead
to contracept. One popular
idea seems to be that it’s because NFP just isn’t “hip” enough. They seem to think that if the Church
just did a better job “marketing” NFP and upgrading the books and methods to
make them more attractive, women would be falling all over themselves to sign
up for NFP classes, while tossing their birth control pills out by the
handfuls.
They go on to say that maybe if the NFP teachers looked a
little cooler, with a few less children, women would be more attracted to the
idea too… and can’t we make the methods less scientific? That shouldn’t be hard, right? It should be easy!
Each time I read an article like this I was left with a
feeling that something was a bit off in the understanding… Read the entire post here!
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