The long-awaited (in)famous NFP e-book is here: New Questions, Old Answers: Catholic Morals and Natural Family Planning
No – it’s not just yet another book about the specifics of the Billings Method, or how to “deal with the difficulties”, or 101-level takes on ethics.
This is a serious book-length moral analysis of NFP. The only other text like it that I know of was printed in 1944. Time for an update!
Included are discussions of the differences in causal structures between NFP and contraception; a look at the history of the Sacred Penitentiary’s interventions on periodic continence (based on newly rediscovered archival material); an examination of the intersection between St. Thomas, St. Alphonsus, and modern papal magisterium on motives for the “use of marriage”; an extended discussion of Innocent XI’s 9th condemned proposition in his Bull Sanctissimus Dominus of 1679; a proposed schema for understanding the justifications needed for postponing pregnancy (viz., how to think about Humanae Vitae’s “serious reasons”); reflections on the spiritual significance of periodic continence; and more.
Sure to challenge those who believe in the liceity of contraception, those who think NFP is sinful in itself, and those who think that pursuing the pleasures proper to marriage is “spiritual,” you will want to see where you line up on the issues.
Enter your information below to receive your FREE digital copy of “New Questions, Old Answers: Catholic Morals and Natural Family Planning,” and you will receive an email with the PDF shortly.
Contacts are put on the company mailing list – don’t worry, it’s not a spammy sales thing.
A physical copy with the same content should be available for purchase in several weeks. I will send it out on the mailing list.
The book is free, but donations are greatly appreciated and are accepted through the information found in the book. Thanks so much!
-Eamonn