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• Principal Deems Students’ Jesus Chant Offensive
  A Catholic school principal has organized sensitivity training for students who shouted “We love Jesus” during a basketball game against a school with Jewish students.
• Texas Families Seek to Block Gov’s Order
  A group of families has filed a lawsuit seeking to block Gov. Rick Perry’s executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against [a sexually transmitted disease] that [may cause] cervical cancer.
• James Cameron, Jewish Archaeologist Claim Discovery of Remains of Jesus, Jesus’ ‘Son’
  From the here-we-go-again files:Oscar-winning film director James Cameron and credited Jewish archaeologist and documentarian Simcha Jacobovici have claimed one of histories’ greatest discoveries: the remains of the Jesus Christ. A new documentary called “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” premiering on Sunday, Mar. 4, on the Discovery Channel, has asserted that it has credible evidence of the remains of Christ and his descendants, including a supposed son, Judah, who Jesus had with Mary Magdalene.
• The Jesus Tomb? ‘Titanic’ Talpiot tomb theory sunk from the start
  Answering the here-we-go-again file: There are all sorts of reasons to see this as much ado about nothing much
• Grunge Christianity and Cussing Pastors? What Next?
  Worldly preachers seem to go out of their way to put their carnal expertise on display—even in their sermons. In the name of connecting with “the culture” they want their people to know they have seen all the latest programs on MTV; familiarized themselves with all the key themes of “South Park”; learned the lyrics to countless tracks of gangsta rap and heavy metal music; and watched who-knows-how-many R-rated movies. They seem to know every fad top to bottom, back to front, and inside out. They’ve adopted both the style and the language of the world—including lavish use of language that used to be deemed inappropriate in polite society, much less in the pulpit. They want to fit right in with the world, and they seem to be making themselves quite comfortable there.
• Row Over Removal of College Cross Takes New Turn
  The president of a Virginia college who removed a historical cross from the school’s chapel to make it more welcoming is taking flak for allowing the performance of a risque show and justifying it by invoking the need to “avoid censorship.”
• Children in Crisis: The Fruits of Weaker Marriages and Families
  Protecting marriage and the family falls within the role of the state in promoting the general public good of society, [Carlo Casini, director of the Italian pro-life group Movimento per la Vita] also maintains. If family life fails, then in turn this has a detrimental effect on society and the state.
• The Moral Natural Law: Problems and Prospects
  Crossing boundaries of nations and states, the media are using the same new concepts which express attitudes and preconceptions that are assessed either positively or negatively. We read about a global ethics, about cultural liberty, dialogue between civilizations, the quality of life, informed choice, gender equality, single-parenting, sexual orientation, bodily integrity, same-sex marriage, right of choice, reproductive rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, the right to die, transparency, holism, inclusiveness, nondiscrimination, ecological awareness, solidarity, openness and tolerance, and we read also about new vices such as exclusiveness, apartheid, homophobia, sexual molestation, populism, ultra-Catholicism.

  At the same time traditional moral concepts such as truth, conscience, moral law, reason, moral virtue, perseverance, fidelity, parents, spouses, virginity, chastity, authority, commandments, sin, and nature are disappearing.

• Pope Benedict Defends Right to Life
  Making the Vatican’s stance clear, Pope Benedict XVI said, “In developed countries, there is a growing interest for the most sophisticated biotechnological research to introduce subtle and extensive eugenics methods in the obsessive search for the ‘perfect child’.”
• Enthusiastic Catholics clamor for Mass of past
  Rumors have swirled for months that Pope Benedict XVI will formally grant permission to all Catholic churches to perform what’s commonly - though incorrectly - known as the Latin Mass.
• 13-Year-Old Threatens Suicide After Parents Force Abortion
  A 13-year-old Italian girl has threatened suicide and was admitted to a psychiatric unit of a hospital after her parents forced her to have an abortion.

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