Neal Obstat Theological Opining

Greetings!

This has been a busy week for me, but that busy-ness has allowed me chance to intersect with some very interesting people and ideas. I will share some of those with you briefly today.

But first. This week we mid-westerners tasted of the infamous Bombogenesis, which is not a reference to the first book of the Torah. Rather, it is a word created to attempt blending brilliant science and bellicose imagery. It was a fantastically amazing storm.

Then today on the Bishop’s radio show, we interviewed representatives of the Paul VI Institute that promotes natural fertility care consistent with both good medicine and good ethics. Along with its trademark Creighton Model FertilityCare System, Paul VI has created a breakthrough approach to (in)fertility called NaPro. It’s all quite extraordinary, and seems to be a new spark in a revolution that intertwines a Catholic vantage on reproductive ethics with a universal vision of the good. In other words, NaPro gives a new, scientifically grounded expression to the Catholic conviction that its own moral vision of human fulfillment is not just-4-Catholics, but is truly a human vision of fulfillment that speaks to Everyman and Everywoman. The natural moral law shakes hands with empirical science and yields wondrous results.

Check ‘em out online and spread the Good News of Natural Fertility Care. And this coming week the show will be posted on Bishop's radio page hyperlinked above.

I'm thinking maybe we could call this NaPro, in tune with the contemporary vogue of all-things-natural, Viridis Veritas – Green Truth.
God loves green, no doubt.

Then, there was that great commercial about the art of translation.

It was a great week.

Peace out.