Dioceses have family life offices. Lay ministries abound, both within parishes, dioceses, and independently. I think “the Church” (meaning the people in the Church) have done exactly what HV called for.
What are these ministries? NFP instruction? In our city, one of the largest in North America, there is ONE couple available to teach the symptothermal method. That’s two people available to teach millions of Catholics. Marquette is not represented at all locally and requires distance instruction. Creighton is available from a handful of doctors whose services are not covered under health care to the tune of $600 for an initial consult and two follow up visits. I met one of three couples known to practice NFP in our parish, one couple a pair of medical doctors, and their response at meeting someone else who used NFP was astonishment and excitement. No, the resources are not abundant.
1ke:
Right, because the Church is just loaded with extra money.
An organization of notionally 1 billion people worldwide doesn’t have the funds for $50 to $100 million (half a cent to a cent per living Catholic) to support pro-life living?! Come on! If each Catholic in North America and Europe would forego a single coffee out and slip the funds into a NFP research collection, we’d be covered! In my city alone, the Archidoscese is paying more than that amount of money to refurbish a basilica. For the value of a single church building/s refurbishment (not even construction!), we could have a set of clinical trials that doctors would use to promote NFP globally to a population of 7 billion. If the value of a single soul merits Jesus’ sacrifice, how is it not affordable to potentially save millions, if not billions, of lives? There is such thing as being penny wise and pound foolish.
ike:
Marquette University, a Catholic University, did just that.
The Marquette method is an admirable step in the direction of modern research. However, its studies are mostly (if not all, I don’t have access to an article database currently and am working from memory) retrospective, with small sample sizes and limited statistical power, which is reflective of their difficulty accessing funding. They could do so much more if they didn’t rely solely on small Catholic university grants for research. It would be incredible to see a prospective trial of the standard, post-partum, and perimenopausal Marquette methods with 1,000+ participants each over a long time horizon (3-5 years).
Also, Marquette is not a panacea. Individuals with irregular estrogen or LH levels will have unusual monitor readings, and the manufacturer of the device used in the method has acknowledged that ovulation will be missed by the monitor in approximately one in ten users.
1ke:
Dr Hilgers created NaPro and Fertility Care while at Creighton University, a Catholic University.
Yes, and while a good and viable option for some sufferers of PCOS and other health disorders, there are legitimate medical cases in which NFP methods are not tenable given required medical treatment.
Interestingly, in our region, NaPro doctors’ services aren’t covered by public health care, so all expenses have to be paid out of pocket. So even where services are provided, the poor may be genuinely unable to access NaPro services, even if they desire to do so.
There is only one place in my diocese that offers NFP instruction that I’ve found and I’d have to drive several hours to get there. I was able to teach myself to use the Marquette method but it’s really expensive. Honestly after my struggle to find any support anywhere to learn and use NFP I can see why a woman would just give up and go on birth control. 
I’m lucky that I have such great, honest teachers.