Educational Resource
NFP article: Escape from Fuddledom by Sharon and Mike Phelan (2012)
Escape from Fuddledom by Sharon and Mike Phelan from the Diocese of Phoenix
"This is a conversion story. My wife and I are converts from an offshoot of Catholic Christianity called Fuddledom. Fuddles, as we might call ourselves, have grown up during the richest period of economic prosperity in the richest country in the history of the world. We know little of external suffering, and what we do know of internal suffering we usually entertain ourselves around. Most of the wounds we have acquired are self-inflicted. Additionally, our knowledge of history is often shallow, and we lack connection to the sufferings of the past. This makes growing up difficult. We Fuddles put off the markers of the grown up as long as we reasonably can: graduation, work, marriage, children, retirement savings, commitment in general. We flop around through our early years with a mixture of philosophies, passions, goals, and a bunch of diversions. Our adolescence can easily extend well past the point that our bodies reflect it."