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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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  • 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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  • Catholic Spirituality,  large family,  Marriage,  motherhood,  pregnancy,  self care,  Theology of the Body

    “His body, your body”

    By Jenny Uebbing

    About a month ago I was talking with a priest friend on the phone, sharing some difficulties about this present season of life with a whole lotta babies and a really wrecked body. Wrecked not only in…

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  • Culture of Death,  mental health,  Pornography,  Sex,  sin,  spiritual warfare,  technology,  Theology of the Body

    Sex, violence, and the internet: every parent’s battle

    By Jenny Uebbing

    My boss brought to my attention a startling and, frankly, disturbing piece of research that surfaced last week correlating the age of a boy’s first exposure to pornography and his resultant attitude towards women. In results that…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  JPII,  mental health,  Parenting,  relativism,  Theology of the Body

    The beauty of gender: our differences aren’t scary, they’re beautiful (and essential)

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Male and female created he them; and blessed them… – Genesis 5:2 This morning I was strolling a leisurely stroll on the treadmill and enjoying 45 minutes of toddler downtime (thanks, Brandy in kids club) when my…

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  • Abortion,  Catholic Spirituality,  Contraception,  Culture of Death,  politics,  pregnancy,  Pro Life,  Theology of the Body,  Women's Health,  Women's Rights

    To my sisters who marched on Washington

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I wanted to write something snarky. I wanted to dash off line after line of statistics and data supporting the appalling abuse committed against women and children in the name of “progress” and “equality.” I wanted to drop…

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  • breastfeeding,  Catholics Do What?,  Contraception,  Marriage,  mental health,  NFP,  Parenting,  pregnancy,  Sex,  Theology of the Body

    NFP: The methods and the madness

    By Jenny Uebbing

    Never one to resist a pun. I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but I wanted to have a few months (a year maybe, now?) under my belt before going and saying something crazy…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Evangelization,  Homosexuality,  relativism,  Theology of the Body

    Lost friendships, hard truths, and homosexuality

    By Jenny Uebbing

    This is a sensitive topic, and it’s a post I’ve been mulling over in my head for a long time. My closest male friend in college was gay, and I loved him. We spent many a lazy afternoon…

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  • Catholic Spirituality,  Evangelization,  Family Life,  JPII,  motherhood,  Parenting,  Theology of the Body

    Theology of Little Bodies

    By Jenny Uebbing

    St. John Paul II is my homeboy 4 life. When I have trouble connecting the present moments to eternity, when I wonder how the life after this one could be better/richer/fuller, sometimes it’s the thought of meeting…

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  • Catholics Do What?,  Culture of Death,  Homosexuality,  motherhood,  Parenting,  Sex,  Theology of the Body,  Women's Health,  Women's Rights

    About those bathrooms…

    By Jenny Uebbing

    I read a great piece this morning on the Target situation du jour from local writer and friend who explained with great compassion and insight why she and her family would still be patronizing the Bullseye, restroom…

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