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• Static Free: Can you tune out the noise of a media-saturated world?
Teresa Tomeo is a Catholic talk show host and media consultant with more than 20 years of experience as a print and broadcast journalist. TCA asked her to talk about the subject of her recent book "Noise: How Our Media-Saturated Culture Dominates Lives and Dismantles Families" (Ascension, 2007). Click here to read more.

• Abstinence Education: Assessing the Evidence. The Heritage Foundation, April 22, 2008. Today’s young people face strong peer pressure to engage in risky behavior and must navigate media and popular culture that endorse and even glamorize permissiveness and casual sex. Alarmingly, the government implicitly supports these messages by spending over $1 billion each year promoting contraception and safe-sex education—12 times what it spends on abstinence education. Click here to read more.

• Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family: The Media's Influence. - One of the ways we can protect our self-esteem and body image from the media's often narrow definitions of beauty and acceptability is to become a critical viewer of the media messages we are bombarded with each day. Click here to read more.

• Benedict XVI Begins His Apostolic Trip to the U.S.A. VATICAN CITY, 15 APR 2008 (VIS) - At midday today, the Holy Father departed from Rome's Fiumicino airport. Following a flight of more than 7,000 kilometres, his plane is due to land at 4 p.m. local time (10 p.m. in Rome) at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington D.C. This is the Benedict XVI's eighth apostolic trip outside Italy and his first to the U.S.A. as Pope. Click here to read more.

• The Secular Media and Your Family's Best Defense: A Review of Noise by Teresa Tomeo. March 7, 2008. If you want to read a book on today's media and the Catholic family there is absolutely no better source than Teresa Tomeo. Click here to read more.