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Now for Some Good News

Ideas dont only have consequences, they have companions. For thirty years a ragtag trio has been running across the cultural landscape, linked like escapees from a chain gang and causing similar havoc: sexual liberation, economic independence, and reproductive choice. Even as the bad news is that these notions rose and flourished together, the good news is that hints of their common fall are becoming discernible.

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Don't Wear That Mini to Mass

As I have not received nearly enough hate mail of late, I thought it best to write something on modesty, this time modesty at Mass. I realize, of course, how delicate this subject is, but I also know that I am not the only one disturbed by immodesty. I am certain that more than a few priests grind their teeth every week in anticipation of having to minister to the inadequately dressed.

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Beyond Dating

Most parents have happy memories of dating. But today youth ministers, and even some teens, are sounding an alarm, that dating may be more intense and destructive than it was for their parents. Here is how one parish leads their young adults on the narrow path to real love.

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Day Care Dangers (and the Double-Income Myth)

A recent 10-year study by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development found that children who spend long hours in non-maternal child care are more likely to be aggressive and disobedient, and less likely to have strong relationships with their mothers.

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