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I can’t believe it took an academic study to figure it out, but here it is: eating together as a family makes for healthier, happier kids. Read on: Social scientists at New York’s Columbia University have discovered certain phrases that help make it less likely that teenagers will smoke, drink, or use drugs. “Pass the…

With all the attention that the Church focuses on abortion and its aftermath, here is one group often overlooked: the fathers. A California conference later this fall will seek to change that, according to this item from the Catholic News Service: It took a long time for attorney Chris Aubert to miss his children —…

The Cardinal Archbishop of New York was not in a mood to banter with reporters yesterday morning: Edward Cardinal Egan bypassed protesters yesterday and curtly dismissed questions about a shuttered East Harlem church – telling reporters to “grow up.” “You just have to ignore all this and grow up,” Egan said when asked about the…

A friend just e-mailed me a short note about autumn, and I realized that yesterday, the 23rd, was the first day of fall. A little Emily Dickinson seems in order: The morns are meeker than they were,The nuts are getting brown;The berry’s cheek is plumper,The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer…
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