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Sex Education Best Kept at Home

January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Sex education is chastity education — and these are lessons best taught in the family, said an expert at the 6th World Meeting of Families.
Italian Doctor María Luisa Di Pietro, associate bioethics professor at Rome’s Sacred Heart University and president of the Science and Life Association, affirmed this during her address yesterday [...]

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Families That Eat Together, Stay Together

January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It is no more complicated than sitting down together at the table, but according to an economist from the Catholic University of America, simply sharing family meals is key for children’s development.
And, the economist suggested, strong families are good not just for the children given life within them. They are also good for the economy.
These [...]

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Protecting Civilians During Conflict

January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

On 14 January, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, addressed the Security Council in the course of an open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
Speaking English, the archbishop noted that although the Security Council has been discussing this topic for more than a decade, [...]

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Iranian Catholics: Strong in the Faith, Rooted in their Land

January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

This morning in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Iran, who have just completed their “ad limina” visit. The conference is made up of ordinaries of the Armenian, Chaldean and Latin Churches who, the Pope reminded them, represent “the richness of unity in the diversity that exists in the bosom [...]