• Author Interview: All Things Guy. As the mom of two teenage sons, I found myself wishing for a similar resource for young men. Our sons face popular cultural messages every day that fly in the face of the values and morals we hope to instill in them as they journey to manhood. Apparently, I wasn’t alone in my wishes. The outcry for All Things Guy: A Guide to Becoming a Man that Matters
was so great that the authors simply couldn’t avoid putting out a resource for boys. Click here to read more.
• Easier Access To Media By Children Increases Risk For Influence On Numerous Health Issues. 05 Jun 2009. With children having easier access to media and a wider variety of content, the possible negative influence on health issues such as sex, drugs, obesity and eating disorders is increased, and warrants monitoring usage and limiting access if necessary, according to a commentary in the June 3 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child and adolescent health. Click here to read more.
• Parents' Healthy Eating Has Little Influence on Children. The findings suggest that other factors, such as peer influence and television viewing may be more powerful influences on what children eat. Click here to read more.
• Scourging at the Tiller. How -- they ask while glancing furiously at the "right" -- did killing become thinkable in America? Mother Teresa answered their question over a decade ago at a D.C. prayer breakfast that they snored through: "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use any violence to get what it wants.…If we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" Click here to read more.
• Cheerleaders for the Revolution
Network Coverage of Barack Obama’s First 100 Days. Media Research Center analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage of President Obama’s first 100 days in office shows network reporters have failed as watchdogs. The networks have raised few doubts about Obama’s left-wing agenda and showered each of Obama’s major policy initiatives with positive press. Click here to read more.
• Archbishop Chaput on Notre Dame and the issues that remain. "Most graduation speeches are a mix of piety and optimism designed to ease students smoothly into real life. The best have humor. Some genuinely inspire. But only a rare few manage to be pious, optimistic, evasive, sad and damaging all at the same time." Click here to read more.
• MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER
BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 43rd WORLD DAY OF COMMUNICATIONS on May 24, 2009 "New Technologies, New Relationships. Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship." Click here to read more.