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Frequently Asked Questions
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Where can I get your CDs?
You can find many good resources regarding contraception at No Room for Contraception
Where can I find statistics about marriage and divorce?
Where can I find good discussion about how contraception has harmed relationships and marriage?
- I have a talk Hormones R' US
- Dawn Eden, "The Thrill of the Chaste"
- Lionel Tiger, "The Decline of Males"
- Jennifer Roback Morse, "Smart Sex"
- Anonymous, "Unprotected"
- Francis Fukuyama, "The Great Disruption"
- Chris and Linda Padgett, "Not Ready for Marriage, Not Ready for Sex: One Couple's Return to Chastity"
- Fletcher Doyle, "Natural Family Planning Blessed Our Marriage: 19 True Stories"
- S. Joseph Tham, "The Missing Cornerstone: Reasons Why Couples Choose Natural Family Planning"
- Robert E. Rector, Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D., Lauren R. Noyes, Shannan Martin, "Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Amoung Women: A book of Charts"
- The Heritage Foundation has lots of good material. I recommend the work of Patrick Fagan.
Where can I find statistics about sexual behavior and unwed pregnancy?
- Google "unwed pregnancy"
- "Sexual Behavior and Select Health Measures: Men and Women 15-44 Years of age, United State, 2002" by William D. Mosher, PhD., Anjani Chandra, Ph.D., and Jo Jones, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics.
- "Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States" by Stephanie J. Ventura, M.A., Division of Vital Statistics.
- "Births: Preliminary Data for 2003" by Brady E.Hamilton, Ph.D.; Joyce A Martin, M.P.H.; and Paul D.Sutton, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics (November 2004).
- "Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, 1940–99" by Stephanie J. Ventura, M.A., Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, and Christine A. Bachrach, Ph.D., National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (October 18, 2000).
Where can I find information about contraception and divorce?
- Robert T. Michael, "Why did the U.S. Divorce Rate Double Within a Decade?" Research in Population 6 (JAI Press, 1988) 361-399; see also his "Determinants of Divorce," Sociological Economics ed. by Louis Levy-Garboua (London: SAGE Publications, 1979) 223-254 and his "The Rise in Divorce Rates, 1960-1974: Age-specific Components", Demography 15:2 (May 1978) 177-182.
- Dr. Edward Peters, "Contraception and Divorce: Insights from American Annulment Cases"
Where can I find good information on the bad social consequences of contraception?
Where can I find information about natural family planning?
Where can I find information about natural family planning and divorce?
Is it true that "grave reasons" are needed for use of natural family planning?
Where can I find information about cohabitation and divorce?
Where can I find information about the damage done by sterilization to marriages?
Where can I find information about world population?
Aren't Catholics supposed to follow their consciences? If their conscience is ok with contraception, is it moral for them to contracept?
Where can I find good information about advanced directives?
Where did you get the "monkey story"?
Where did you get your information on the effect of chemical contraceptives and hormones on relationships?
Where can I get statistics on unwed pregnancy?
Why is in vitro fertilization wrong?
Where can I find good information about homosexuality?
Where do I find information about the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality?
What sex education programs do you recommend?
Where did you get your information about the statement of apology of the Philippine Bishops?
What evidence do you have that chemical contraceptives are carcinogenic?
What evidence do you have that there is too much estrogen in the environment?
What percentage of Catholics use contraception?
What evidence do you have that contraceptives cause infertility?
Contraception has led to much sex outside of marriage, which has led to large number of STIs, a major cause of infertility:
Is it moral for a husband who is HIV positive to use a condom to avoid transmitting the HIV to his wife?
Where do I find information on the patch and lawsuits?
Where can I find a good doctor to help with problems of infertility?
- The Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha, NE has a great program called NaPro Technology
Where can I find the article that Karol Wojtyla wrote in response to the reports issued by Paul VI's Special Commisssion on Birth Regulation?
- Wojtyla, Karol. "Les fondements de la doctrine de l'eglise concernant les principes de la vie conjugale." Analecta Cracoviensia 1 (1969): 194-230.
- A translation of this piece will soon appear in the theological journal Nova et Vertera.
Where can I find a good materials on the Theology of the Body?
Where can I find a good therapist or marriage counselor in the Fort Wayne, San Diego, Cody, Wyoming area?
Where do I find information about the Special Commission that advised Popo Paul VI on the question of birth control, before he wrote Humanae Vitae?
- I cover this issue in the chapter of my book "Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later".
- There are other books written that discuss this matter. One by Patty McClory, for instance. Do some research.
I am a medical student and would like to attend a medical school that will form me in accord with Catholic teaching. Where should I go?
I am so pleased you are so concerned to be a good Catholic doctor. I am sorry to say that I don't know which schools can assist you best in achieving that. I am afraid there may be none. I recommend you contact the following, they should have some ideas:
Updated: December 14, 2009
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