Mary Shivanandan
On Being a Husband and Father
By Jim Park. In a culture that has for years portrayed husbands and fathers as buffoons and imbeciles or revealed men as sexual predators...
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Mary Shivanandan
Oct 9, 20183 min
Dating and Friendship
Nowadays, it seems young people do not know how to date. Thus, we hear of special courses on college campuses specifically geared to...
Mary Shivanandan
Oct 3, 20184 min
Three Critical Stages
By Dr. Pat Fagan. Three phases are foundational to a sense of well-being throughout life: the child’s early experience of his mother, the...
Mary Shivanandan
Oct 1, 20183 min
The Fire of Creation
I would like to begin this blog with a quotation from my book, The Holy Family Model Not Exception. On page 195, I cite Emile Mersch, a...
Mary Shivanandan
Sep 10, 20184 min
Openness to NFP?
By Alice Knaeble. This past summer I worked at a Pro-Life Catholic OBGYN practice. The practice was pro-life in every sense of the word....
Mary Shivanandan
Sep 3, 20183 min
Common Sense on Breastfeeding
In the mid-1970s it was calculated that all family planning methods, including condoms, IUD’s and birth control pills provided only 24...
Mary Shivanandan
Aug 27, 20184 min
The Blessings of the Sex Abuse Crisis
The 1968 truce in the Church of holding to Humanae vitae publicly but privately not endorsing it, has created a climate of duplicity in...
Mary Shivanandan
Aug 7, 20183 min
Self Gift in Marriage
By Jim Park. “What? For me?” “What a wonderful surprise!” “How thoughtful!” “Thank you!” Whether at our birthday or at Christmas or...
Mary Shivanandan
Aug 7, 20184 min
The Blessings of a New Baby
By Christine M. White. My husband and I recently welcomed our fourth child into the world. Our family is in the midst of newborn bliss,...
Mary Shivanandan
Aug 7, 20184 min
Chastity is Good News
At a recent spiritual retreat the director said, "A lack of male virtue is the cause of most of the problems in our society today.” I...
Mary Shivanandan
Jul 13, 20184 min
NFP–Not for Protestants?
Natural Family Planning is widely known as “Catholic birth control,”-- except only a minority of Catholics, especially in the secular...
Mary Shivanandan
Jul 9, 20184 min
The Secret of Affirmation
By Dr. Pat Fagan. The Church offers two models of marriage to Catholic couples: Christ and his relationship to the Church and the Holy...
Mary Shivanandan
Jul 9, 20183 min
Humanae Vitae - Path to Healing
Fifty years ago this year St Paul VI issued his ground-breaking encyclical, Humanae vitae (On Human Life). It was received with...
Mary Shivanandan
Jun 8, 20183 min
The End of the Contraceptive Mentality
By Jim Park. My little family prays the rosary each night, and one of our usual intentions is for “the end to the contraceptive...
Mary Shivanandan
Jun 8, 20183 min
Why Can't a Woman Learn NPF from Her Doctor?
By Alice Knable. As a convert to the Catholic Faith my journey to embracing the teaching of natural family planning (NFP), which is a...
Mary Shivanandan
May 12, 20183 min
Definitions of Success
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1989, a seminal book was published called Family Planning and Population Control: The Challenges of a Successful...
Mary Shivanandan
May 10, 20183 min
The Challenge of Love
By Alice Knable. Mary’s Fiat offers a profound model for every woman practicing Natural Family Planning. “Behold the handmaid of the...
Mary Shivanandan
Apr 2, 20183 min
Science, Faith, and Humanae Vitae
It was recently announced that the ashes of deceased scientist, Stephen Hawking, would be interred in Westminster Abbey, London, England,...
Mary Shivanandan
Mar 19, 20182 min
Safe, Churchy Subjects
As a young mother with small children, I was challenged to care for them and also continue some of my professional activities. The...
Mary Shivanandan
Mar 12, 20182 min
Communion in the Flesh
It is not possible to speak truly of communion in the family without taking into account the bodily dimension of conjugal intercourse,...
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