February 23 – Contraception: A Help or a Headache for Marriage? 

February 23 – Contraception: A Help or a Headache for Marriage?  Understanding the Church’s Teaching on Sexuality and Marital Fulfillment by Caitlyn Dwyer, MTS

Description: Mrs. Dwyer will contrast the culture’s misunderstanding of contraception as a path to health and freedom in marriage with the Church’s understanding of authentic married love.  Within this framework, she will explore some of the medical, sociological, ethical and theological problems related to contraception and artificial reproductive technologies. She will also discuss positive alternatives for family planning and fertility treatment like natural family planning, FEMM, and Naprotechnology.

Bio: Caitlin Dwyer is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Thomas More University in Crestview Hills, KY. She writes on topics related to human life, gender, and the Theology of the Body and speaks at colleges, high schools, and elementary schools on related topics. She earned her B.A. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame where she completed the Honors Theology Program and co-founded the Edith Stein Project, an annual student-led conference on the dignity and vocation of women. She obtained her M.T.S. from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. Additionally, she helps with RCIA, Theology of the Body instruction in her parish, and the Summit 22 youth retreat. She resides in Erlanger, KY with her husband, Ryan, and four children.  Their fifth child is due in April.