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School officials want to provide girls at Lowell High School other kinds of contraceptives in addition to the condoms they offer now. "In this day and age we need to do everything we can to support our students," Lowell School Committee member Connie Martin said during a subcommittee
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When a Jesuit high school in Indianapolis refused to cut ties with one of its teachers – one who was in a same-sex marriage – the local archbishop announced that the school could no longer be called Catholic. It is a complicated subject, often misunderstood or falsely reported.
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What would you do if they came for you? It's a question religious people sometimes ask themselves, hoping they'd give the right answer. Forbidden God is a movie about several dozen Roman Catholic seminarians who were rounded up by anti-clerical leftists during the early days of
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Brown University's student protesters have done heroic things despite an administration that often isn't on board for constructive change, a graduating senior told a commencement crowd Sunday. Ruth Scott Miller, of Anchorage, Alaska, who describes herself as part Dena'ina Athabaskan (an Alaska indigenous tribe)
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In the final two readings of a recent Saturday's Torah portion (Acharei Mos (after the death)), G-d told the Hebrews that incest, bestiality, and homosexuality were prohibited sexual activities and that the Canaanite nations defiled themselves by engaging in these forbidden and abominable practices. Refraining from engaging in
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In his taped presidential campaign announcement, former Vice President Joe Biden began on a sublime note citing the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," he intoned, "that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights." Then he
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When the woman showed me her daughter's photos, I thought nothing of it, except to relish in the beauty of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. We were aboard a Delta flight out of Logan. My son settled in by window, and me in the middle, when
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The mildness of Polish conservative Ryszard Legutko's classroom comments on the campus of Middlebury College last week highlight the silliness of the planned campus protest that led to the cancellation of his scheduled public speech. Legutko is a philosopher and a mainstream political figure in Poland – he'
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