Cancer in Women

The sad reality is that any woman who takes a hormonal contraceptive for four years prior to her first full-term pregnancy increases her risk for breast cancer by 52%. It is worth noting that this same research arm of the World Health Organization also places "the Pill" in the same category with asbestos and cigarettes.

Researchers in Iran have published results of a new study showing that women who have had an abortion face a 193% increased risk of breast cancer



from: http://www.zenit.org/article-30799?l=english

Marriage Notes- Good for society

American Academy of Pediatrics Panel, “Marriage is beneficial in many ways” because people “behave differently when they are married. They have healthier lifestyles, eat better, and mother each others health.” Looking at the effects on children, the Panel stressed that this advantage is not found in step family households nor in households headed by unmarried cohabitating parents. (Pediatrics, 2003)

Another research team found that the advantages given to children by intact marriages extend beyond the individual child: the existence of such marriages also predicts the overall health of a school and a neighbourhood → that is, intact families are essential for creating “a social world [that] is ordered in ways that generally favour young persons.” (that from the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2004)

Regarding child sexual abuse, for example, data from Canada showed that preschool-age children living with their natural parents are forty times less likely to become abuse victims than are those children living in alternative arrangements. (Ethology and Sociobiology, 1985)

The children from such homes are ― on balance ― also much healthier, in both mind and body, than those growing up in any other setting. They earn higher marks in school; indeed, family structure is superior to all other competing theoretical explanations for differences in child achievement. (Journal of Early Adolescence, 2000; Social Problems, 2000)




From the article: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/why_australia_and_the_world_needs_a_renewed_culture_of_marriage/
October 2010

Media and the Sex Scandals in the Catholic Church 2010

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/24/opinion/main1933687.shtml
Has Media Ignored Sex Abuse in School

"As the National Catholic Register’s reporter Wayne Laugesen points out, the federal report said 422,000 California public-school students would be victims before graduation — a number that dwarfs the state’s entire Catholic-school enrollment of 143,000.

during the first half of 2002, the 61 largest newspapers in California ran nearly 2,000 stories about sexual abuse in Catholic institutions, mostly concerning past allegations. During the same period, those newspapers ran four stories about the federal government’s discovery of the much larger — and ongoing — abuse scandal in public schools."

Scoundrel Time(s)
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/03/scoundrel-times

In the United States alone, there are reportedly some 39 million victims of childhood sexual abuse. Forty to sixty percent were abused by family members, including stepfathers and live-in boyfriends of a child’s mother—thus suggesting that abused children are the principal victims of the sexual revolution, the breakdown of marriage, and the hook-up culture. Hofstra University professor Charol Shakeshaft reports that 6-10 percent of public school students have been molested in recent years—some 290,000 between 1991 and 2000. According to other recent studies, 2 percent of sex abuse offenders were Catholic priests—a phenomenon that spiked between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s but seems to have virtually disappeared (six credible cases of clerical sexual abuse in 2009 were reported in the U.S. bishops’ annual audit, in a Church of some 65,000,000 members).

Here’s a crazy idea: What if the Pope is innocent?

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/23/here%E2%80%99s-a-crazy-idea-what-if-the-pope-is-innocent/

Does anyone remember the Catholic s-x abuse scandal at the Vienna Boys Choir? According to The Age of March 19, the choir “has been caught up in accusations that pedophile priests systematically abused their choristers.” The same day’s Australian reported that “the crisis over sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has intensified” as a result of the choir scandal.

The Australian story was a beat-up, The Age’s an outright fabrication. The Vienna Boys Choir is a private organisation, and the complaints of abuse were made against teachers and older choristers, not priests. Once this became apparent, the media dropped the story: the choristers’ suffering ceased to be interesting without a church angle. But there have been no apologies, retractions or denunciations.

Einstein on the Church

EINSTEIN ON THE CHURCH

‘Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany I looked to

the Universities to defend it, knowing that they had already boasted of their

devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the Universities immediately were silenced.

Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaring editorials in days

gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the Universities, were

silenced in a few short weeks. Then I looked to the individual writers…they too

were mute. Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for

suppressing truth. I had never had any special interest in the Church before, but

now I feel a great affection and admiration…I am forced, thus, to confess that what

I once despised I now praise unreservedly.’

Albert Einstein, writing in Time, 1940,

(quoted by Ralph McInerny,

The Defamation of Pius XII)

Men's TV Show, EWTN, Crossing the Goal

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