According to a recent Pew Forum poll, "Catholics have one of the highest retention rates" among Christian churches, with 68 percent of Catholic kids remaining in the church as adults. Here's how PR Newswire chose to highlight the poll's findings:
* Almost 70 percent Catholic youth stay Catholic as adults
* Only 2-3 percent cite sex abuse [...]

Maryland Catholics move to enshrine "natural complementarity of the sexes" within impenetrable snowglobe
The Maryland Catholic Conference has come out against the Maryland Senate Bill 566, legislation that would protect against discrimination of transgender persons in the state. According to the group's executive director, Mary Ellen Russell, the church generally would totally support something like this:

Stare into those 24th-most-beautiful eyes
NUMBER 24: The Daily Mail reports on a poll ranking the world's most beautiful lady politicians. The poll was conducted by Spain's " 20 Minutos" newspaper, so, whatever. Peruvian congresswoman Luciana Leon is the most beautiful. Of the 54 women on the list, Palin currently ranks 24th, with 3,173 votes. At [...]