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Cynicism and biting satire are often the outward manifestations of serious internal strife and spiritual anger. When you praise such biting and cynical satire, especially as a priest...well, none of us are perfect, but this is poor behavior on his part.

Especially considering that 100% of Catholics who I've seen comment agree that the source of this whole debacle, Popcak's sibling NFP charting recommendation, is simply wrong.

As I noted Polycarp, I have no problem with NFP when used as you outline above. Popcak's statements are a different matter. It sounds as if he is saying that God mandates charting. This and the brother-sister thing are the cultish things that are going to scare normal, good-hearted people right back to artificial contraception. I hope Popcak has a chance to take your class.

"Explain to your sons that as God is giving them the gift of their sexuality, He is asking them to spend the next several years learning how to use that gift properly. Part of that means that if he marries, he will be responsible for working with his wife to determine God's will for their lives, including when to have children and how many children to have. These are decisions that need to be made every month in collaboration with his wife and with prayer. After he is married, part of his responsibility will be to help his wife do something called charting, which means that he will write down the different signs that tell how healthy his wife is and when they could have a baby. I am aware of some families where the brother may chart his sister's temperatures for her, or even some cases where the mother shares her own NFP chart (minus the coitus record, of course) with the intent of acquainting the young men and women of the house with NFP. I also know some families who object to this idea on privacy or modesty grounds."