Fructus Ventris has a pair of very good links for anyone who's curious about Natural Family Planning. That blog is done by Alicia, who is a midwife and knows a thing or two. I would start with the 'Myths and Facts' and follow the more detailed link if you really want to get into it.
NFP started out as a Catholic thing, but it could and should the ability to spread to other communities. It stands to reason that people who don't like chemicals in their food, chlorine in their water and ozone in their air should be very curious about a method that will eliminate a major alteration in body chemistry.
Healthy and cheap... Hmmm...
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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