Abstinence programs have been a hot discussion topic lately. The new Obama administration has recently decided to cut the budget on programs that are abstinence-only and instead move to more comprehensive sex education courses that offer discussion on contraceptives, sexually transmitted diseases and the like. Conservatives and liberals on the subject have had many a [...]

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Bishop Dowling is known throughout the Catholic world as one who has strongly gone against the religion’s strict condom ban. This view came about once he became a first-hand witness to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, living in Pretoria for over 15 years.

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