{"id":312123,"date":"2026-10-22T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312123\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:18:06","slug":"local-parishioner-former-catholic-medical-association-president-receives-national-nfp-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312123\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Parishioner, Former Catholic Medical Association President Receives National NFP Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Lester_ruppersberger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"241\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Lester \u201cLes\u201d Ruppersberger<\/p>\n<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 22, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lester \u201cLes\u201d Ruppersberger, a parishioner of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish in Yardley, has received the 2026 Edward A. Keefe Award from <a href=\"https:\/\/ccli.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Couple to Couple League International<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes contributions to the advancement of Natural Family Planning through research, clinical practice, education, and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>A retired OBGYN in the Philadelphia region, Ruppersberger practiced as a Natural Family Planning-only physician and served as president of both the national Catholic Medical Association (CMA) and <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicphilly.com\/2025\/10\/news\/local-news\/white-coat-mass-celebrates-catholic-doctors-in-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia\u2019s St. John Neumann Guild of CMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Betty, have taught Natural Family Planning for nearly 20 years in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and helped expand local fertility education efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The honor comes as Couple to Couple League celebrates its 55th anniversary and recognizes Ruppersberger\u2019s decades of service to Catholic health care, marriage and family life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Lester \u201cLes\u201d Ruppersberger By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 22, 2026 Dr. Lester \u201cLes\u201d Ruppersberger, a parishioner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10467,127589,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-312123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-catholic-medical-association","tag-dr-lester-ruppersberger","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}