John wrote the following to a priest who inquired about NFP International:
Our pastor got us back into teaching NFP because he wanted his engaged couples to have what we have to offer. Our manual, Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach, teaches what is clearly the most complete approach. It gives legitimate freedom of choice to couples and can be accessed all over the States and anywhere in the world that has access to the internet.
We are the only organization in America that promotes and teaches Ecological Breastfeeding according to the Seven Standards. Others may mention breastfeeding, but their talk about continued breastfeeding is essentially the same as the “total breastfeeding” that was taught to my wife in the early Sixties. When the mothers in her La Leche League group compared notes and noticed that one mom would have her first period at three months (as did my wife Sheila with our first baby) and another had over a year of breastfeeding amenorrhea (no periods), Sheila began to research the matter. Why do women in “undeveloped” non-contracepting cultures enjoy two, three, and sometimes four years between babies just from breastfeeding? The answer is contained in the closeness of mother and baby and the frequency of nursing episodes. That’s why Sheila has written several books on the subject and why we include this information in our NFP course. The rest of the NFP movement by and large talks about evidence-based NFP but refuses to acknowledge this evidence-based reality.
We may also be only NFP organization that systematically transmits Catholic teaching on sexual morality including chaste abstinence during the fertile time. When couples who learned NFP elsewhere tell us that they practiced various sexual immoralities during the fertile time for years and say they were never taught about chaste abstinence, we acknowledge the need to transmit this teaching.
We support Humanae Vitae with a renewal-of-the-marriage-covenant theology that has roots in the Letter to Families by St. John Paul II and is much easier to grasp than his work in the TOB.
You would do your readers a favor by listing our website as a resource on your website. I encourage you to visit and spend some time reviewing the blogs as well as all the material we have in NFP and Spiritual resources. The NFPI Home Study Course continues to get rave reviews from users, and we ask for a donation of only $70, about half of what some others charge.
In His service,
John F. Kippley
NFP International