While teens in the West are more concerned with boys and their latest Facebook post, an increasing number of young girls in Afghanistan who are married off as young as 14 have resorted to setting themselves on fire in order to end their miserable lives.
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A new study has found that in 2011, American audiences preferred movies with strong conservative content rather than films promoting liberal or left-leaning values by a whopping six-to-one margin.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Last week's brouhaha by a gay activist who was demanding the removal of a priest after being denied communion seems to be unfolding into yet another embarrassment for the mainstream media who neglected to mention that the woman wasn't even a Catholic - but a Buddhist!
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A look behind recent polls shows that in spite of a concerted effort by liberal pundits to change the narrative on the HHS mandate from one of religious liberty to one of women's health, the public just isn't buying it.
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Justice Antonin Scalia addressed a standing-room-only crowd of more than 500 Catholic youth in Denver last weekend to encourage them not to yield to criticism of their faith.
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Only a day after a high-profile bust of the group's leaders, the hacker group known as Anonymous managed to take down the Vatican website for several hours, claiming to be targeting the "corrupt" Catholic Church.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns consumers not to use skin creams, beauty and antiseptic soaps, or lotions that have been found to contain mercury. We
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Experts are warning that if the contentious HHS mandate is permitted to stand, it will force the closure of 13 percent of U.S. hospitals and reduce the number of available beds by 120,000.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The pro-contraception lobby is continuing to present alleged victims of the Church's fight over the government's plan to force them to offer insurance that covers birth control, with the latest being a nurse in a Catholic hospital who claims she plans to stay on her parent's insurance policy because her birth control is too expensive and her health plan doesn't cover it.
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During a recent interview, the head of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed the way it mocks Jesus.
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