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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.

Thanks for the heads up on this guy, Max. This is really, really, off the wall! I will pray that no one takes him seriously.

And note, the folks at CatholicCitizens.org, where I found this article, are mainstream Catholics.

Meet the People of the CatholicCitizens.org.

Executive Staff
Mary Anne Hackett - President
Mr. Karl Maurer - Vice President, Treasurer and Web Editor
Thomas F. Roeser - Chairman of the Board

Advisory Board
Dan Cheely - Mauk, Bellande & Cheely
Cristov Dosev - Mardoc Properties, LP
Keith Fournier - Your Catholic Voice Foundation
Deal Hudson - Crisis Magazine
Dennis Martin - Loyola University Professor of Theology
Joseph A. Morris - Morris, Rathnau & De La Rosa
Michael Rose - Author
David A. Shaneyfelt - Thomas Aquinas University
Jerome A. Urbik - Hinsdale Associates

Thanks for the heads up on this guy, Max. This is really, really, off the wall! I will pray that no one takes him seriously.

We were talking about this article today at home, and my 18-year old daughter said that she thinks that all the NFP crowd are this weird, it's only that articles like this expose the weirdness. Popcak is on EWTN, he's endorsed by the Knights of Columbus, he speaks at the Couple to Couple League and NACHE (National Assoc of Catholic Home Educators). He's not out of the mainstream among neo-Catholic thought.

If that sounds like an extreme statement, his writings aren't any worse than those of another guy who appears in all the same places: Christopher West. Mr. "Naked without Shame" himself takes the Pope's personalism to mean that we shouldn't have to wear clothes any more. He is the putative author of Archbishop Chaput's famous pastoral letter defending Humanae Vitae. The pastoral letter is actually a joke, but it's held up as the very model of orthodoxy. This is actually as good as it gets when you stray into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of NFP promotion.