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The tragedy of not being a saint

Mother Teresa made holiness wholly credible
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Why don’t you just marry yourself?

Sologamy must be the meanest of modern marriage myths.
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Dating and demographics

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Republican voters are not ‘moving on’ from marriage

Politicians who betray marriage face a swift electoral backlash.
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President Obama’s sex-driven war on science

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Go ahead, ban me, but I’ll never say a man is a woman!

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Wake up and smell the coffee

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Section 18C is too broad and too vague, and should…

Australia's Racial Discrimination Act casts too wide a net
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Why has Japan’s massacre of disabled gone unnoticed?

Mass killings in Paris, Nice, Orlando, Kabul and Baghdad draw world-wide attention. Japan's tragedy vanished
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Learning French, with a little help from my friends

Unsuspected resources for mastering a language
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New study finds couples unable to have as many children as they want

Family planning should not mean family restriction.
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How did UTexas sociologist Mark Regnerus get to be so…

A study of gay parenting exploded when it hit the media
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Evicting religious voices from the public square is anti-democratic and discriminatory

Interrogate belief systems; don’t dismiss them
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Surprising findings about humanity’s environmental footprint

It's not necessarily linked to population or economic growth.
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7 reasons why Australia needs a plebiscite on same-sex marriage

Democratic politics is all about debating controversial ideas
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Ben-Hur: why classical movies are no longer truly epic

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Getting America onto the right track

A few things have improved, says a Heritage report, but the moral ecology is fragile.
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Let’s treat porn as the public health hazard it is

Brain science is strengthening the case for a new approach.
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Muhammad and the believers: At the Origins of Islam

Before there was Islam and Muslims there was an ecumenical movement
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Magical village discovered by local children

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Youth unemployment high worldwide

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How the Islamic State recruits and coerces children

ISIS recruits children as "Cubs of the Caliphate"
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Elegy for Amatrice, struck by earthquake

An Italian grieves for lives lost and treasures ruined.
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Go ahead, ban me, but I’ll never say a man is a woman!

A UK parenting website has to give 'transphobists' a say.
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Wake up and smell the coffee

World Youth Day gives all of us a glimpse of our real priorities.
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After 140 years, Tom Sawyer is still a beloved character

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Can the Pope change Catholic teaching on contraception?

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Thailand’s ageing population

At the same time, it's working age population is declining.
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Pro-choice puritanism

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Why Penelope waited for Odysseus

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