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  • Bioethics,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  current events,  Women's Rights

    Rejecting fertility and rejecting God

    By Jenny Uebbing

    The article begins like this: “A  movement of women have decided not to procreate in response to the coming ‘climate breakdown and civilisation collapse’. Will their protest be a catalyst for change?” I can hardly think of…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Marriage,  NFP,  planned parenthood,  pregnancy,  Pro Life,  scandal,  Sex,  sin

    NFP for clergy

    By Jenny Uebbing

    That title, right? I know. But, yes. Seriously. After one of the talks I gave in Nashville last month, a group of nice young Catholic guys who were, I surmised, discerning the priesthood, came up to chat…

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  • About Me,  Catholic Spirituality,  Contraception,  current events,  Evangelization,  feast days,  JPII,  Living Humanae Vitae,  NFP

    Coffee clicks: Nashville, Instagram bullying, and Communism

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Heading into a kind of weird weekend for our crew: 2 days off followed by a day and a half of school and then fall break. I don’t remember having fall break as a kid, so I…

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  • abuse,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  current events,  Parenting,  prayer,  scandal,  sin,  spiritual warfare,  Suffering

    What’s a faithful Catholic to do?

    By Jenny Uebbing

    There is a tremendous – and warranted – outcry of rage and betrayal in the Church right now. I’m not talking about the usual suspects in the media and the voices coming from the cafeteria line, either.…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  IVF,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Parenting,  planned parenthood,  politics,  Pro Life,  Sex,  sin,  Theology of the Body,  vasectomies,  Women's Health

    Humanae Vitae at 50: how does a Catholic respond to sex in the modern world?

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Today marks exactly half a century since the publication of Humanae vitae, Bl. Paul VI’s prescient missive to the Church in response to the modern world’s views on sexuality and the human person. Reading it now through…

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  • About Me,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP

    But what do the neighbors think? {Living humanae vitae part 8}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Lately I’ve been experimenting with a little mental exercise I like to call “what if there’s a nanny cam?” Now, being the queen of my domicile and the only avid Amazon clicker in the house, I can…

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  • Bioethics,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  guest post,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Parenting,  pregnancy,  Sex

    Med school pregnancies and IUDs {living humanae vitae part 6}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    This installment of the Living Humanae Vitae series is near and dear to my own desperate-to-be-in-control heart, and it represents a beautiful surrender to an awareness of God’s faithfulness and the sometimes nonsensical economy of grace. I…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  guest post,  large family,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  pregnancy,  Sex,  Suffering

    Alleged miracles, hyper fertility, and the Cross {Living Humanae Vitae Part 5}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    You may already be familiar with Bonnie Engstrom’s story from her blog, “A Knotted Life.” If you are, then you know that her son, James Fulton, was stillborn. His allegedly miraculous return to life – through the…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Sex,  Suffering

    This couple went a year without sex (and lived to tell the tale): {Living Humanae Vitae part 1}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Our first contributor wishes to remain anonymous because of the personal nature of her piece, but was generous enough to share her story here. Following the back to back arrival of their 4 children, this couple laid…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  motherhood,  NFP,  Sex,  Theology of the Body

    Living Humanae Vitae: stories of faithfulness to the Church’s teachings on sex and marriage

    By Jenny Uebbing

    How many times can she write about NFP? I can write about it as many times as it takes in order for me to internalize the seemingly simple concepts undergirding this most perennially misunderstood of Catholic teachings:…

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