Committed to Being Committed

By Francine & Byron Pirola | March 5, 2015 |

A friend of ours is fond of saying in relation to successful marriage, ‘it’s a matter of being committed to being committed.’ In other words, we have to be serious about our marriage commitment, willing to tough it out when it’s difficult and put to the test. There’s a great deal of wisdom to this…

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Do Catholics Have Better Sex?

By Francine & Byron Pirola | February 26, 2015 |

According to research by the Family Research Council, that’s a resounding ‘Yes!’ Drawing on data from a number of studies, devout, married Catholics have the best sex of any demographic group, says study author Patrick Fagan. He relied heavily on information from the National Health and Social Life Survey, conducted by the University of Chicago in 1992,…

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What is Commitment?

By Francine & Byron Pirola | February 25, 2015 |

A few years ago, we were giving a talk on chastity to a group of young people and some of them challenged us, saying that “sex before marriage was ok if you were in a committed relationship”. So we quizzed them about what defined a “committed relationship’. Universally, their answer was a measure of duration;…

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Understanding Fertility

By Francine & Byron Pirola | January 30, 2015 |

Male Fertility Under normal circumstances, men are fertile all the time. Sperm are produced continuously by the testes at a rate of around a hundred million per day. The testes begin sperm production at puberty and continue until the man dies, although the number and quality decline with age. Female Fertility Women are fertile for…

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