“Live the truth and beauty of God’s plan for married love!” is the theme of this year’s Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, a national educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to celebrate God’s design for married love and the gift of life — and to raise awareness of Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods.  “NFP,” as the U.S. bishops have written, is supportive of Catholic beliefs about married love because it “respects the God-given power to love a new human life into being” (see U.S. Bishops, Married Love and the Gift of Life).

The dates of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week ( July 19–25, 2020) annually highlight the anniversary of the papal encyclical Humanae vitae (July 25) which articulates Catholic beliefs about human sexuality, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood.  The dates also mark the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne (July 26), the parents of the Blessed Mother.

The USCCB has terrific resources for Natural Family Planning available online (click here).