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Photo of the Week: A Burkini in Marseille

Aug 27, 2016
French descendants of those who once displayed the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" in the streets are driving modestly garbed Muslim women from their innocent leisure. French descendants of those who once displayed the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" in the streets are driving modestly garbed Muslim women from their innocent leisure.

Pope Blasts Atheism in New Encyclical

Dec 1, 2007
Atheist authors Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris have some new material to work with, thanks to the latest official release from Pope Benedict XVI, who critiqued the work of Karl Marx, warned against excessive faith in scientific progress and condemned atheism, which he believes has led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" in recent history.