When I play tennis with a certain friend, a daily communicant, we usually end up talking about the Church. On July 2, her first question to me was “Are you going to the CCL conference on Humanae Vitae?” She had no idea we were no longer associated with the Couple to Couple League. Nor did she know that CCL dropped the three basic teachings we brought to this organization when we founded it in 1971. Another Catholic friend, also a daily communicant, also assumed we would be going to the CCL Humanae Vitae conference in our city and knew nothing of our separation.
My husband prays daily that CCL will return to the original Triple Strand: the covenant theology of sexuality, ecological breastfeeding, and Dr. Konald A. Prem’s flexible version of the sympto-thermal method. All of these teachings were dropped by CCL in 2007.
These teachings continue to be taught by Natural Family Planning International and by a few CCL chapters in Europe.
For more information, read Battlescarred: Justice Can Be Elusive by John F. Kippley. (50% discount at www.lulu.com until end of July) The early part of this book relates events of 50 years ago that led us to teach NFP.
Sheila Kippley
www.NFPandmore.org