Catholic Fire

Fr. Jeff Day discusses the Sacrament of Marriage with couples. Includes the Catholic understanding of marital sexuality.

From thisislondon.co.uk : Cherie Blair today claimed she could still be a "good Catholic girl" despite admitting to using contraception. She appeared to challenge Catholic teaching on artificial birth control as she spoke about the impact of contraception on women's lives. Mrs Blair, who made her comments in a GMTV interview with Lorraine Kelly, said the ability to control their fertility had "changed" how women live. Her remarks came after Ms Kelly told Mrs Blair that emails from viewers were mentioning her admission in her new book Speaking For Myself that she had not packed her "contraceptive equipment" for a visit to Balmoral, which resulted in her pregnancy with her youngest son Leo. MORE I think it's about time Cherie Blair learned about Natural Family Planning and the dangers of contraception not only to her body but to her soul. Someone please, educate her -- send her a book on the theology of the body -- information on NFP -- and let'...

Passport, a Novel by Christopher Blunt Pelican Crossing Press, 404 pages pelicancrossingpress.com Review by Ellen Gable Hrkach From the back cover of Passport: “Stan Eigenbauer leads a comfortable life with his dog, season tickets to the Cubs, and a garage full of vintage hobby cars. When he meets a lovely young woman, he thinks he’s found the one thing that was missing: a passport to “heaven on earth.” But when a serious lapse in judgment changes everything, Stan must choose between the woman who loves him and the people who need him.” Passport is the debut novel of author Christopher Blunt, who describes his book as a “coming-of-age story about a young Catholic man’s discovery of self-sacrificial love.” At the beginning of the novel, we meet Stan, a likable but somewhat shy and unassuming fellow. Stan is an average guy who is trying to live out his Catholic faith but who has not yet found a lifetime mate. Soon thereafter, Stan finds himself in the difficult and agonizing position of...

Stevie at Wheelbarrow Manor is hosting an NFP Conversion Stories Carnival! Check it out! Do you have a story to tell? Maybe, like many of us, you heard the church's teaching on NFP as an adult and immediately recognized the truth, in spite of its being completely contrary to the world's view on the subject. Stevie is offering a Divine Mercy Single Decade Rosary for the winning story. It all starts April 14. Share your blessings with us! Via Rosemary Bogdan.

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I know that couples have to plan their family and for that there is natural family planning. The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self. This turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gifts of love in him or her. 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. I also know that there are great problems in the world - that many spouses do not love each other enough to practice natural family planning. We cannot solve all the problems in the world, but let us never bring in the worst problem of all, and that is to destroy love. And this is what happens when we tell people to practice contraception and abortion. The poor are very great people. They can teach...