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Puberty for girls is difficult enough without added shame
… black girls in my fifth-grade class: plaits decorated with barrettes and elastic bands with plastic balls on the ends that we used to call "knockers." In the post, the dad states that the …
A Grave Situation
… I’m not just talking about the inclination of many of the residents to morph into a plastic alien-looking agelessness or the industry’s obsession with youth. I’m being literal: …
Barbie's latest profession angers Italian Catholic bishops
… Pool Paolini , produced 33 dolls of various religious figures for a show named "Barbie, The Plastic Religion," which opens Oct. 11 in Buenos Aires. SIR, an Italian website backed by the … is finished? If you did, you're forgetting that there is also the masculine component of the plastic couple. So you can see the faithful and eternal boyfriend Ken dressed as Jesus, Saint …
Sit here awhile and rest
… Benton … The water roars out of the tap and makes a beat in double-time on the bottom of the plastic tub. I test the temperature and twist alternately the hot and the cold to correct it, …
Liberian bishop: Lack of proper health care facilitates rapid spread of Ebola
… personal protective equipment, latex gloves, rain boots, chlorine, facial masks, heavy-duty plastic aprons, goggles, antiseptic hand sensitizers and powder soap, he noted. Currently, the …
Displaced Iraqis face daily struggle against desperation, anxiety
… who fled advancing Islamic State fighters. She said the day might begin by waking under the plastic cover of the makeshift tent that has become home. Then it would be time to pluck the damp …
BVM, OMG!
… the St. Louis Jesuits hymns on her autoharp. (Did I mention it was the '70s?) Clutching our plastic rosaries, we'd process two by two from our classroom, surrounding the much-envied …
Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone need us to hear their voice
… that rely on child soldiers. They are understandably hostile to foreigners totally encased in plastic who tell them to give their loved ones to the foreigners for medical care, to establish a …
On St. Ignatius feast, pope meets family of Jesuit kidnapped in Syria
… by Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik and joined the community for a quick espresso, served in little plastic cups. …
More than 100 religious, immigration activists arrested at White House
… arrest," an officer said. "You may not leave the secure area." As the protesters were put in plastic handcuffs one at a time, hundreds more who were fenced off across the street in the park …
Hold the sauce: Pope heads to Vatican cafeteria for Friday fish menu
… still excited, you know?" Wearing his white cassock and zucchetto, the pope grabbed an orange plastic tray and chose what he wanted from the array of prepared foods. He got a plate of pasta …