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      <title>On Being Bubba</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Politics is important, certainly, but it is also frequently ugly and even more often amusing. Thus the cover story in a recent issue of Newsweek was devoted to the question of whether Barrack Obama has a sufficient &quot;bubba&quot; quotient to be elected President. With arugula serving as Obama&apos;s symbol and beer as the symbol of, well, &quot;bubba&quot;, the essay revolved around the question of whether the Democratic leader was perceived as too much of an upper-crust snob to garner support among the working classes. Image, as the saying goes, is everything, or at least mostly everything in contemporary politics.]]></description>

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      <title>Cardinal Dulles Bids Farewell</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[I was deeply impressed by Avery Cardinal Dulles&apos; farewell address as Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University. Cardinal Dulles has held this post for twenty years, and has delivered the last thirty-nine of the semi-annual public lectures associated with the position, as well as hundreds of other similar lectures.  On April 1st, in attendance but unable to speak due to illness, Cardinal Dulles heard his final lecture read by the former president of Fordham who had appointed him to the McGinley chair, Fr. Joseph O&apos;Hare.]]></description>

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      <title>Telling the Good News</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Occasionally it is worthwhile to remind ourselves that some news is good. For example, in mid-April the Congregation for the Clergy launched a campaign to remind priests that prayer must be their first priority, and to remind all of us that we should be praying for our priests. This campaign, complete with excellent supporting materials, is leading up to a new World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests on May 30th.]]></description>

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      <title>Bishop Fernando Lugo Mendez, President of Paraguay</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The election of a Catholic bishop to the presidency of Paraguay last week presents an interesting problem for the Vatican. Bishop Fernando Lugo Mendez led the San Pedro diocese from 1994 until his resignation in 2005, ostensibly for health reasons, but almost certainly to pursue a political career. Lugo was suspended from episcopal and priestly ministry by the Vatican in February of 2007 because he refused to step away from Paraguayan political campaigns, where he represents the leftist Patriotic Alliance for Change.]]></description>

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      <title>The Nature of Political Sacrifice?</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Did you see the story about the U.S. Senate&apos;s refusal to recognize Pope Benedict&apos;s concern for &quot;each and every human life&quot;?  The final official Resolution of Welcome mentioned the Pope&apos;s regard for the vibrancy of religious life in America, his commitment to ecumenical dialogue, his encyclical letters on love and hope,  the positive impact of his message on millions of Americans, his courage in working for human dignity, his defense of the weak and vulnerable, and his efforts to advance a &quot;civilization of love&quot;.]]></description>

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      <title>Bishop Fellay Says No: The Scandal Continues</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Bishop Bernard Fellay, the schismatic and excommunicated head of the Society of St. Pius X, has stated that Pope Benedict XVI&apos;s Summorum Pontificum, which mandated wider use of the 1962 Roman Missal, is not nearly enough to bring about a reconciliation between the SSPX and the Holy See. This is exactly the same, of course, as stating that his group will not reconcile with the Catholic Church. It&apos;s a continuing scandal.]]></description>

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      <title>Pope to Catholic Educators: Moral Formation</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[My title for this summary and analysis of the Pope&apos;s address to American educators deliberately mimics the title I used for my review of his address to the U.S.  bishops.  Though the title carries a slight risk of oversimplification, it is true that if you understood the Pope&apos;s emphasis on moral formation to the assembled bishops on Wednesday, you will pretty much know what he said to the four hundred Catholic educators at Catholic University of America on Thursday. Once again, Benedict wants to reforge the links between learning and life, faith and action, truth and the good.]]></description>

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      <title>Readers on Lying</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The response to last Friday&apos;s column on lying has been remarkable (see Is It Ever Right to Lie?). Many readers have offered their own viewpoints on this complex matter in an exchange of ideas which has been both pleasant and instructive. Every opinion was worth serious consideration. I&apos;ll summarize a few of these observations here.]]></description>

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      <title>Grace through Suffering</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Elie Gilges died in her parents arms on March 11, 2004. Elie had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor when she was eight months old, and her parents expected to lose her almost immediately. Hope was rekindled when they found surgeons who would operate, but Elie had a stroke during or after the operation which destroyed a large part of her brain. She survived with minimal brain function in the continuous care of her parents until her death at the age of ten. Elie was their first child.]]></description>

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      <title>Sister Jenny's Hour</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[On one evening at the end of March, people turned off their lights to observe &quot;Earth Hour&quot;. This is essentially an exercise in consciousness-raising for the environment, global warming, and carbon footprints. No harm done, certainly, but some people don&apos;t feel that turning off the power for an hour is sufficient to wipe away their sins. So a few religious stalwarts used the occasion to make a more far-reaching statement about planet-saving spirituality.]]></description>

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