NFP Week - July 20-26

[From a 6/24/25 Archdiocese of Philadelphia flocknote:]

NFP Awareness Week—July 20–26, 2025 “Pursue a lasting love … Marriage. Create hope for the future! Natural Family Planning, Supporting God’s gifts of love and life in marriage” is the theme of this year’s national Natural Family Planning Awareness Week (July 20–26, 2025).  As an educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), “NFP Week” celebrates God’s design for married love and the gift of life and raises awareness about Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods.  “NFP,” as the U.S. bishops have written, is supportive of Catholic beliefs about married love because NFP “respects the God-given power to love a new human life into being” (see, U.S. Bishops, Married Love and the Gift of Life at usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/catholic-teaching/upload/Married-Love-and-the-Gift-of-Life-English-version.pdf). The dates of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week are July 20–26, 2025. These dates highlight the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae vitae (July 25) which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, marriage, conjugal love and responsible parenthood.     The Office for Life and Family joins with the U.S. bishops in highlighting the benefits of NFP as ethical methods to help married couples live God’s design for their marriages. Our neighboring diocese of Metuchen is offering a free webinar July 24th we strongly recommend attending - poster below and registration here: https://diometuchen.org/webinar-a-natural-approach-to-fertility-care Want to learn more about the methods of NFP? Visit the NFP section of the USCCB website at: usccb.org/nfp.  Learn NFP in the comfort of your home by contacting one of the NFP providers listed at usccb.org/topics/natural-family-planning/nfp-distance-learning.  The Catholic Church invites all the faithful to embrace God’s plan for married love and the gift of life. Learn more about these beautiful teachings which support the use of NFP in marriage at usccb.org/topics/natural-family-planning/church-teaching.  Two recommended articles included here: https://www.usccb.org/resources/Redeemed%20Sexuality.pdf https://www.usccb.org/resources/2019-NFP-Week-Love-Naturally-article.pdf Social media graphics here: https://www.usccb.org/committees/laity-marriage-family-life-and-youth/2025-nfp-week-social-media-graphics

6/29: Solemnity of Sts Peter & Paul, Apostles

 Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

St. Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body"
on marriage/family/human sexuality

The Family, The Family & Society (from the Catechism)

Good Saint Ann, Find Me a Man

Solemnity of Sts Peter & Paul, Apostles

(Sign/Voice)

• Tell Senators to Stop Funding Abortion (Human Life Action)

• Just War & Who Declares War (Catholic365, 1/27/24)

• C-Fam Database Shows Increased Treaty Body Pressure on Abortion/Gender (C-Fam, 6/20/25)

• Fulfilling our Obligation: A Poll (Children of God for Life, 6/18/25)
• Weekly Update (Children of God for Life Newsletter, 6/16/25)

• Are Organ Donors Actually Dead? (HaloVoice, 6/18/25)

• Eagle Forum Applauds Skrmetti Decision
  Supreme Court Upholds States’ Ability to Protect Children (Eagle Forum, 6/18/25)

• Saint Pope JP II put it best.... (Catholic365, 6/17/23)

• AFRICA/NIGERIA - “The survivors of the Yelwata massacre are terrified and lack everything” (Agenzia Fides, 6/16/25)
• Latest attack reportedly kills nearly 200 people in Nigeria (Crux, 6/16/25)

• Americans Want To Prioritize Solving The Root Causes Of Infertility Over IVF: Poll
  Respondents expressed strong dislike for the idea of destroying human embryos created during IVF
  (DailyWire, 6/16/25)
• The In Vitro Fertilization Problem (Human Life Action, 2/2025)

• Santa Clara University (Catholic365, 6/15/25)
• Santa Clara University’s Crazy Idea of Human Sexuality (WSJ, 6/6/25)

"I appealed to the dean, the provost, the Title IX office, the university president and even Campus Ministry. I’m not sure who was more shocked, the priest reading the syllabus or me, screen-sharing sexually explicit videos and images with him....

"Concepts like modesty and marital privacy aren’t merely treated as optional or even dismissed. They’re seen as oppressive norms to be actively combated.... 

"In Human Sexuality, we were taught that children with six months of 'gender distress' should be 'affirmed' in their belief that they are of the opposite sex—without deeper assessment, even when trauma or autism was present"

• Ten Years After the Obergefell Same-Sex “Marriage” Ruling, Calls Multiply for Its Overturn (TFP, 6/13/25)

• In Support of 'Standers'
  Catholics supposedly oppose divorce, but do we really stand with abandoned spouses?
  (New Oxford Review, 6/13/25)

• A Blue-Collar Catholic Can Recognize a White-Collar Heretic (Father David Nix, 6/12/25)

• Why Are Catholic Communities Failing? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J., 6/11/25)

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6/22/25, Corpus Christi

Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

St. Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body"
on marriage/family/human sexuality

 

Sacred Heart

  

Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Sts Thomas More & John Fisher

Corpus Christi (sign/audio)

In 1263, Father Peter "had just finished the words of consecration when blood began to seep from the Host onto the altar and corporal....Fr. Peter immediately journeyed to Orvieto where Pope Urban VI was residing at the time...the pontiff...had the host and blood-stained corporal brought to the Cathedral in Orvieto [The above photo is from a 2015 pilgrimage to Orvieto.] where they are still venerated today, and instituted the feast of 'Corpus Christi' a year later" (CNA, 10/7/13)

(Pan de Vida)

Padua's Priest, Saint, &

Doctor of the Church

6/15/25, Most Holy Trinity

• Non-profit Being Investigated for Allegedly Funding ICE Riots Has Close Ties with L.A. Archdiocese (Catholics For Catholics, 6/11/25)
• "We all agree that we don’t want undocumented immigrants who are known [emphasis added] terrorists or violent [emphasis added] criminals in our communities. But there is no need for the government to carry out enforcement actions in a way that provokes fear and anxiety....I urge Congress to get serious about fixing our broken immigration system that leads so many to seek to cross our borders illegally" (Archbishop Gomez of LA, 6/6/25)

• Michael Knowles Criticizes Catholic College for Teaching How to Approve Child ‘Mutilation’(Catholics For Catholics, 6/10/25)

• Vatican News removes Rupnik art from website (Catholic World Report, 6/9/25)

• Archdiocese of Washington announces major cutbacks, layoffs (Catholic News Agency, 6/6/25)

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6/15/25, Most Holy Trinity

Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

 

     (sign/audio)

• Five Challenges on Marriage and Family for Pope Leo (The Catholic Thing , 6/7/25)
• Understanding Pope Leo, bit by bit (Catholic Culture, 6/6/25)
• Pope LeoS on Marriage and Family (Catholic365, 6/2/25)
• Your Holiness, What are You Waiting For? (Catholic365, 5/26/25)
• This is my hope for Pope Leo XIV. That he will live up to the legacy of Pope Pius XII, that he will stand against antisemitism within and outside the Church, that he will serve as a powerful witness that pulls our elder brothers into the fullness of Christ and embraces those already in the faith" (Now Is the Time to be a Saint: Facing Antisemitism in the Church, Catholic Insight, 6/4/25).
• The Future of the Latin Mass, Hopes, Fears, and Pope Leo's Dilemna (Prayerful Posse, 5/30/25)

• St. Thomas More: A Turning Point in History (The Catholic Thing, 6/2/25)

• Sesame Street stokes backlash for promoting pride month (Christian Post, 6/2/25)

• New Study Details the Lifelong Impact of Divorce on Children (The Daily Declaration, 6/2/25)

• Massacre in Nigeria follows bishop’s U.S. testimony on Christian persecution (Catholic News Agency, 5/28/25)

• The "Take It Down Act" Is a Long Overdue First Strike Against Pornography in Schools (TFP, 5/28/25)

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6/8/25, Pentecost

Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

 

An Authentic Role Model of "Pride":
St Charles Lwanga

(Sign/Voice)

• The Future of the Latin Mass, Hopes, Fears, and Pope Leo's Dilemna (Prayerful Posse, 5/30/25)

• Massacre in Nigeria follows bishop’s U.S. testimony on Christian persecution (Catholic News Agency, 5/28/25)

• The Architect Who Fought Modernism — and Inspired a Sacred Architecture Revival (National Catholic Register, 5/27/25)

• Pope Appoints Archbishop Paglia’s Right-Hand Man as President of Pontifical Academy for Life
  (Note to author: contraceptive use is NEVER acceptable.). (National Catholic Register, 5/27/25)
• Marco Rubio Reveals Just How Little USAID Funding Was Helping the Needy (The Gateway Pundit, 5/25/25)
• The Bomb that Never Detonated (Catholic World Report, 1/16/2017)
• Your Holiness, What are You Waiting For? (Catholic365, 5/26/25)

• Was Jesus Nice? (Catholic Answers Magazine, 5/27/25) 
• Why Men Must Abandon The False Gospel Of Nice-Guyism (Federalist, 5/26/25)

• EXCLUSIVE: Federal Trade Commission Sets Sights On Transgender Procedures On Kids (Daily Wire, 5/21/25)

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6/1/25, 7th Sunday of Easter

6/3, Sts. Charles Lwanga & Companions

7th Sunday of Easter

(sign/audio) - Archdiocese of Philadelphia

(Thursday, May 29 is a Holy Day of Obligation in the Archdiocese)

7th Sunday of Easter - Ascension
(sign/audio) - Diocese of Trenton

5/31, The Visitation

5/25, 6th Sunday of Easter

St. Rita of Cascia: Augustinian

Patroness of the Impossible

• The West’s Assault on the African Family (The Daily Declaration, 5/23/25)
• USCIRF Highlights Growing Violence Against Christians In Nigeria (religionunplugged, 5/16/25)
• Jihadist violence has reshaped society and the Catholic Church in Nigeria (Catholic World Report, 5/15/25)

• U.S. Universities Have Blood On Their Hands In Latest Violence Against Jews (The Federalist, 5/23/25)

• A New China Policy?  Nina Shea with Raymond Arroyo (The World Over, 5/22/25)
• Holy See: Review Vatican-China Agreement (Human Rights Watch, 5/12/25)

• 'Big, Beautiful Bill’ Sacrifices Preborn Children (ALL, 5/22/25)

• NCOSE Says DEFIANCE Act Gives Victims of Deepfake Pornography Path to Justice (NCOSE, 5/21/25)

• Three American Catholics (New Oxford Review, 5/21/25)

• Requiescat In Pace: George Wendt (The American Catholic, 5/21/25)

• Pray for the Health, Authentic Conversion, & Salvation of Joe Biden (Catholic365, 5/18/25)

[Note: To the best of my knowledge, Father Martin has NOT been declared a "heretic" by those in authority.]

• NY Times Panics Over State Efforts to Roll Back Same-Sex 'Marriage' (The Stream, 5/16/25)
• Not What They Wanted to Hear
  SCRIPTURES & ART: Catholics owe the world greater clarity about what marriage is. Jesus didn’t mince words. Why do we?
  (National Catholic Register, 10/2/21)

• Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV: Please Clean Up Francis' "Mess" (Catholic365, 5/9/25)
• Here’s an idea to bring about healing and peace: Let the “Dubia Cardinals” re-submit the 2016 Dubia (Amoris) and 2023 Dubia (Synodality) (Fr. Z's Blog, 5/9/25)
• Roll Back Francis’ loosening of Canon Law (Mary's Advocates, 5/6/25)
• The New Pope Must Purge the Church of the Lavender Mafia (Crisis Magazine, 5/6/25)
• How the Next Pope Can Support Faithful Catholic Politicians (former Congressman Dan Lipinski, 5/6/25) 

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5/25/25, 6th Sunday of Easter

6th Sunday of Easter

(sign/audio)

5/18/25, 5th Sunday of Easter

• Pray for the Health, Authentic Conversion, & Salvation of Joe Biden (Catholic365, 5/18/25)

• Jihadist violence has reshaped society and the Catholic Church in Nigeria (Catholic World Report, 5/15/25)

• From Tony C to Bennet O: We Need to Better Apply Respect for Human Life in Sport (Catholic365, 5/15/25)

• Catholic Divorce Mandate Exposed... (Adrian Milag TV, 5/14/25)
• Roll Back Francis’ loosening of Canon Law (Mary's Advocates, 5/6/25)

• Bishop Fan's heroics (Pillar, 5/13/25)

• When False Abuse Victims Blackmail the Church, Why Does No One Care? (TFP, 5/13/25)

• Simplified Liturgical Living (Emily Finley, 5/12/25)

• Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV: Please Clean Up Francis' "Mess" (Catholic365, 5/9/25)
• Here’s an idea to bring about healing and peace: Let the “Dubia Cardinals” re-submit the 2016 Dubia (Amoris) and 2023 Dubia (Synodality) (Fr. Z's Blog, 5/9/25)
• Roll Back Francis’ loosening of Canon Law (Mary's Advocates, 5/6/25)
• The New Pope Must Purge the Church of the Lavender Mafia (Crisis Magazine, 5/6/25)
• How the Next Pope Can Support Faithful Catholic Politicians (former Congressman Dan Lipinski, 5/6/25) 
• "The last several decades have been frustrating for traditional-minded pro-life Catholics. Whenever legislators and legislation threatened the moral law, the American bishops were inclined to sponsor various prayer initiatives. Prayer became like a government program as bishops disguised their dereliction of duty in disciplining pro-abortion Catholic politicians by calling for more public devotion and more dialogue.... A courageous celibate provides doctrinal air cover for Catholic troops on the ground. Clergy who fail to use their celibacy for the fearless proclamation of the Gospel become selfish comfortable bachelors” (Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, 5/23/22).

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