The Billings ovulation method of family planning has long been regarded as a highly effective and ethical means of achieving and avoiding pregnancy. The Church supports the Billings method and other ...

MELBOURNE, Australia – John Billings, the founder of a natural contraception method that won support among Catholics, has died, a colleague said Tuesday. He was 89. Billings died late Sunday at a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — John Billings, the founder of a natural-contraception method that won support among Catholics, died Sunday. He was 89. Mr. Billings died at a Melbourne retirement home, said ...

The recent passing of Dr. John Billings April 1, 2007, at 89 years of age will elicit, throughout the world, two kinds of responses. The first will concern his illustrious career as a medical doctor, ...

The expert Italian gynecologist Elena Giachhi said last Friday at the Synod for Africa that natural family planning through the Billings Method “fosters conjugal love, family unity, respect for women ...

John Billings, the founder of a Catholic-friendly method of birth control that made its greatest impact in Communist China, died Sunday in Melbourne, Australia. He was 89. Billings and his wife Evelyn ...

Drs. Evelyn and John Billings are pictured in the garden of their home in Melbourne, Australia, in this 2004 file photo. The couple are being celebrated as potential saints by those in the medical ...

More than 25 years ago, while living in Australia, Karen Beitzel and her husband were looking for an alternative to the birth control pill. Beitzel saw advertisements for a method that allowed women ...

Pope Francis has praised the Billings method of natural family planning as “a valuable tool” for married couples that also provides needed education about the meaning of the conjugal act. “In the ...