By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The famous New York auction house, Sotheby's, is hosting an art exhibition celebrating Dante's "Divine Comedy" that contains a mockery of Christ and profane images of priests.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to a new study released by the Pew Research Center, atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New Census Bureau data released yesterday reveals that the number of people who married last year is at the lowest level in over one hundred years.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Thanks to the efforts of the Iowa Catholic Conference, voters in Iowa will be able to voice their opinion about marriage on a November 2 ballot after being shut out of the decision by the state's Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage last year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Liberal lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee passed a bill that will require federal health officials to question anyone, including children, who seeks services from federal community health centers to state their sexual orientation and "gender identity."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Researchers at The Heritage Foundation have found that the collapse of marriage is one of the principal causes of the sharp increase in the poverty rate that has occurred since President Barack Obama took office.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A tour guide at Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall made the mistake of playing down the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers to a tour group that included several experts on the subject.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A furor is erupting over a newly released video showing sixth grade students from a Massachusetts middle school prostrating themselves alongside Muslim men in a prayer to Allah while on a public school field trip to a local mosque.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
One child in 10 in the United States lives with a grandparent, a share that increased slowly and steadily over the past decade before rising sharply from 2007-08, the first year of the Great Recession, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) is circulating a positive youth statement that will be presented to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in an attempt to dissuade them from endorsing a radical pro-abortion document that calls for the creation of policies that will treat children as totally autonomous from their parents.
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