The scientific world is abuzz this week over a recent announcement from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that they believe they found a way to "switch off" the extra chromosome that causes Down's Syndrome.
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Devout married Christians have the best sex life of any demographic group, says one of America's leading researchers.
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Britain's House of Parliament passed a law allowing same-sex marriage this week, a bill that was signed into law on Wednesday by Queen Elizabeth II.
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World Youth Day 2013 officially kicks off in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro on July 23, beginning with Pope Francis' arrival and ending with an outdoor Mass that some say could draw as many as three million people.
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Top-ranked Polish tennis star, Agnieszka Radwanska, who frequently speaks of her Catholic faith, has lost the endorsement of a key Polish youth group after she posed nude in
ESPN's Body Issue.
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The latest issue of
Rolling Stone magazine is causing outrage across the nation for featuring a hip-looking Dzhohkar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, on its cover. At least two major retailers are refusing to sell the issue.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSThe nation's premier dissident "Catholic" newspaper, the National Catholic Reporter, is demanding that Cardinal Timothy Dolan address the "hot heads" at EWTN's National Catholic Register for promulgating a petition to strip the errant Catholic Health Association of its name.
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The people of the staunchly Christian nation of the Dominican Republic took to the streets yesterday to protest the appointment of James "Wally" Brewster, an openly homosexual man, as their new U.S. ambassador.
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Now that the Supreme Court has issued two key rulings considered favorable to the issue of same-sex marriage, legal experts are warning parents that public schools will be teaching this subject in ways they might not approve.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
It's been only five months since his election, but Pope Francis is already leaving his mark on both the Vatican and the world, inspiring many to eschew the unnecessary frills of life in order to take better care of the poorest among us.
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The scientific world is abuzz this week over a recent announcement from researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School that they believe they found a way to "switch off" the extra chromosome that causes Down's Syndrome.
