{"id":397,"date":"2009-07-20T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/doesnt-that-have-something-to-do-with-family-finances.html"},"modified":"2009-07-20T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T15:57:00","slug":"doesnt-that-have-something-to-do-with-family-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/07\/doesnt-that-have-something-to-do-with-family-finances.html","title":{"rendered":"“Doesn’t that have something to do with family finances?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s one of the responses we got when my TV show “Currents”<\/a> visited some parishes this past Sunday and asked the question, “What’s NFP?” <\/p>\n

This week marks Natural Family Planning Awareness Week<\/a>, and so we decided to see just how aware people really are. <\/p>\n

Short answer: not very. <\/p>\n

An overwhelming number of people leaving church Sunday — including a couple clergy — were clueless about what the initials “NFP” stand for. And when our producer said, “I’ll give you a clue: it’s Natural Family Planning,” that elicited the response in the headline. <\/p>\n

We’re doing an interview with a priest on NFP, and a longer report later in the week. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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