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A new study has found that the number of atheists has been declining steadily over the last four decades.

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The atheist community is in shock this week as one of their own - blogger Leah Libresco of Patheos - announced that she has converted to Catholicism.

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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist When Pope Benedict XVI steps off a plane in his native Germany tomorrow morning, he will be embarking on what many say will be a difficult four-day visit to a land where Catholic teaching is mostly opposed or at least ignored and militant groups are planning large boycotts and protests.

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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist In a startling example of secularism running amuck, a new software program called GodBlock promises parents and educators to protect their children from online "religious propaganda." 

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The same humanist group that peppered the Washington DC transit system with signs reading "Why Believe in a God? Just be Good for Goodness' Sake” last Christmas is back with a new and larger campaign aimed at the growing percentage of people who claim no religious affiliation.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist During a recent interview, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago warns about the growth of a fashionable new atheism among the nation’s youth.

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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist During his historic three-day visit to the Czech Republic, which coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in that country, Pope Benedict XVI carried a message of faith and hope to this largely atheistic nation.

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