Oral Memoirs of R. Patrick Homan ; Natural Family Planning

Interviewed by Christopher H. Owens on July 7, 2003 in Cincinnati, Ohio. ; 1 ; in process; 113 pages ; R. Patrick Homan (1939-) was an advocate for Natural Family Planning beginning in the 1980s; attending Catholic schools in southern Ohio; growing close to his grandparents while his mother was sick; learning of and dealing with his mother’s alcoholism; Irish and German heritage; teaching high school; attending Xavier University and going through ROTC; dating and marrying Ellen Schuler; training in field artillery; searching for the right family planning method; coming home from Vietnam and recovering from shock; being stationed in Greece in 1972; teaching at Fort Sill; selling insurance; working for Tresler Oil and then Fifth Third Bank; learning about and promoting modern Natural Family Planning (NFP); working with Couples to Couples League (CCL); differences among NFP approaches in various dioceses; working as executive director for CCL; Protestants embracing NFP; negatives of contraception like condoms and birth control pills; NFP helping marriages; homosexuality in the Catholic priesthood; targeting the Hispanic population with NFP education.