| The Respect Life Ministry within the Archdiocese of Milwaukee is overseen by the Department of Catholic Social Action. For more information, please contact Robert Shelledy at 414-769-3402 or via e-mail at shelledyr@archmil.org.
Pro-Life Ministry Internet Resources
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Activities
The Bishops' Secretariat for Pro Life Activities is the prime source for the bishops' policy and teaching statements on pro-life issues, including public policy information.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Departments
The departments of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops produce program information on a broad range of public policy issues of concern to the bishops.
National Committee for a Human Life Amendment
The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment publishes program information on pro-life issues in Congress, legislative reports, fact sheets, legislative briefing pages and the like.
Wisconsin Catholic Conference
The website for the Wisconsin Catholic Conference - the public policy voice of the Roman Catholic bishops of this state. The WCC offers a specifically Catholic contribution to state and federal public policy debates. The web site includes political guidelines, bishops' statements, press releases, newsletters, editorials and testimonies, and legislative information.
National Office of Post Abortion Reconciliation and Healing
The website for the National Office of Post Abortion Reconciliation and Healing. Project Rachel is the Catholic Church's healing ministry to people who have been involved in an abortion. The web site offers information in English and Spanish about resources, prayers, contact information, and background on abortion's aftermath.
Information on Natural Family Planning
(Programs may include a minimal fee.)
Natural Family Planning Resources
Articles and materials about Natural Family Planning are available from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
You may request electronic copies of articles directly from nfp@usccb.org.
Marquette University Institute on Natural Family Planning
Information on NFP is available from the Marquette University Institute on Natural Family Planning. Materials and classes also available in Spanish (Spanish classes are held at St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee.) M.U. teaches the Marquette Model which looks at mucus, temperature and the new urinary hormonal monitoring device (the Clearplan Fertility Monitor). Call 414-288-3854, or write Marquette University College of Nursing, Institute for Natural Planning, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881. Email - muinstnfp@marquette.edu Website - http://www.marquette.edu/nursing/nfp/
Couple to Couple League
The Couple to Couple League (CCL) is an international, interfaith, non-profit
organization dedicated to teaching Natural Family Planning (NFP) to married and
engaged couples. It is a volunteer organization and services are provided by professionally-trained volunteers. CCL teaches the Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural Family Planning. In this system a couple uses cross-checking signs of fertility: cervical mucus, waking temperatures, and changes in the cervix itself. The League also teaches natural child spacing--ecological breastfeeding which typically provides over a year of natural infertility after childbirth.
CCL believes that couples should be free to choose the natural method with which theyfeel the most comfortable based on their own experience and instructs couples in all the common signs of fertility and infertility. In addition to the physical aspects of understanding and working with fertility, CCL instruction provides insights into values and moral principles involved in the decision to practice Natural Family Planning.
For additional information, see the Couple to Couple League International website.
For a list of local couple certified to teach NFP by the Couple to Couple League please contact the Lifelong Faith Formation Office, 414-769-3441 or grevsmuehlm@archmil.org .
Hospitals Offering Natural Family Planning Instruction
St. Mary Hospital in Milwaukee: Peggy Mcintyre R.N., CNNFP. The hospital is located at 2323 North Lake Drive. Classes held at St. Mary's Milwaukee campus the first Wednesday of every month at 7:00PM in Room 709. Call Peggy at 414-291-1750 to register. Programs: Ovulation Method and Marquette Model.
St. Francis Hospital in Milwaukee - call the Marquette University Institute on Natural Family Planning, 414-288-3854, to inquire about Natural Family Planning Classes in Spanish held at the hospital.
Dr. Cynthia Jones-Nosacek MD, NFPP/MC: Holds classes on the third
Monday of every odd month at the Northpoint Clinic, St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee. She can be reached at 414-291-1557. (Accepts most insurance).
Love Life Library
The Love Life Library is a project of the Southside Pregnancy Center and serves the metro community with access to information supporting Value of Life, which all human beings are made in the image of God, and advocates that Respect is commanded of each individual human being, no matter age, stage, or location in life. Located at 5424 W. Bluemound Road, Milwaukee, WI 53208. Phone 414-258-2864.
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