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Children Need Morality

In his 1929 encyclical Christian Education of Youth, Pope Pius XI taught that, particularly in young people, evil practices are the effect not so much of ignorance of intellect as of weakness of a will exposed to dangerous occasions . . . (ibid., no. 66). His Holiness is reminding us of the dangers of providing children with information on human sexuality at a time when they do not have the maturity to use this information properly.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Parental Irresponsibility

As a former educator who saw the scribbling on the wall in the 1970s, when schools started soliciting rock stars for anti-drug-abuse videos (which my eighth-graders, predictably, laughed at), I see today seven factors turning out this nations first generation of killer kids.

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Prominent Psychiatrist Announces New Study Results:

Dr. Robert Spitzer, the" instrumental figure in the American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its diagnostic manual of mental disorders, has announced a new study, which has altered his beliefs on the issue. "Like most psychiatrists," says Spitzer, "I thought that homosexual behavior could be resisted, but sexual orientation could not be changed. I now believe that's untrue some people can and do change."

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The Knot That Cant Be Tied

Mans sexual energies are of extraordinary power and complexity. Is this energy something we can use however we wish, or is there some objective standard to which this energy should be conformed? The Western tradition, like many other traditions, has consistently held that there is such an objective standard, and it is the reality called marriage. Today, however, many think that marriage can be whatever they want it to be.

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Modesty Revisited

Many of the problems we hear about today - sexual harassment, date rape, young women who suffer from eating disorders and report feeling a lack of control over their bodies - are all connected, I believe, to our cultures attack on modesty.

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