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    The wonder of the last baby

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I hold my breath, waiting for another cry to pierce the midnight air. Ten, twenty seconds pass. Maybe I imagined it. Then a wail goes up like a fire engine and I push myself up and swing…

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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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  • 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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  • About Me,  Catholics Do What?,  Family Life,  large family,  Marriage,  mental health,  motherhood

    5 months with the Fab 5

    By Jenny Uebbing

    How about some OG mommy blogging on this Friday Eve? I thought I’d update all my wonderful readers who have not yet abandoned ‘ye olde blog’ for the flashier and more fragmented pastures of Instagram with a…

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  • infertility,  Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP,  Suffering

    Think you know a “perfect” family? Maybe you can’t see the whole picture {Living Humanae Vitae part 4}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Have you ever looked longingly at someone else’s cross and thought to yourself, “I’d trade places with them in a heartbeat,” while morosely focusing on your own troubles? Have you ever wondered, “I wonder what’s going on…

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  • Living Humanae Vitae,  Marriage,  NFP

    The strange in between {Living Humanae Vitae part 3}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    This week’s installment comes from a dear friend from my Steubenville days who is approaching her first wedding anniversary this summer. She is a beautiful, faithful woman who gave many years of service to the Lord before…

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

    Suffering, surrender, and seven boys: {Living Humanae Vitae part 2}

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I’m honored to introduce you to these next contributions to the Humanae Vitae series – their story is both extraordinary and unusual, and has the potential to open a dialogue about a rarely-discussed aspect of NFP; namely,…

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