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To judge by my f-list and other Catholic bloggers I have seen, Mary Eberstadt's article on First Things about the vindication of Humanae Vitae has made more waves than anything in years. I suppose that is because it goes further than most Christians had been thinking of going. While most people are aware that abortion is at least controversial, very many outside the Catholic Church do not give contraception a second thought, and even many Catholics, especially of the older generation, imagine that the matter is settled and over. However, the evidence is that it is not. Mary Eberstadt's article was not the only one to say the same thing, and to judge by the reaction, it addresses a mood that is definitely growing among Christians, let alone Catholics. And since Christians and Catholics do not live in a vacuum, it is finding unnoticed echoes even among the ordinary secular types.

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There isn't a non-secular world. The Christian, Islamic, Buddhist etc worlds are all wildly different, and there are variations within each. Still, each has a core. The idea of the media as a core for the secular world is interesting, but given the media must pander to its audience(s), it would be better served simply running different services for each variant. Those variants wouldn't necessarily be regional though.

That was really my point. That the secular and non-secular world were similar. No one core, but lots of variations.

I think we can see already that american culture dominates in the media. Simply because it is cheaper to buy a show already made for a big home audience that to make another. So my daughter talks about high-school and watches Nick Jr etc here in Ireland. The same shows are shown in France, India, Japan etc.