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      <title>The apostolic constitution: a closer look</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[By releasing the full text of Anglicanorum Coetibus, the Vatican has given us a much better understanding of Pope Benedict&apos;s historic effort to reach out to the Anglican communion. And the official commentary, written by Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda of the Gregorian University and released along with the text, helps to highlight the fundamental policies behind the canonical rules.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:01:07 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Back to Nature</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The other night I was out walking in the November chill. Many of the leaves had fallen, and the crystalline brightness of a full moon leapt through the branches of the surrounding trees. It seems odd to talk of the clarity of night, but here I was in a vast surrounding darkness that was completely incapable of subduing the razor-sharp light. The scene called to mind another Light that the darkness could not grasp, eerie and awe-inspiring at the same time. It reminded me once again how easily the mind rises from the vast and joyful surprise of nature to a penetrating perception of the activity of God.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:03:17 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>A plea to the Bridgeport diocese: Call off the lawyers</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Could I make a request to the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut?]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:22:46 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Good Questions, Great Answers</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Suppose you were to make a list of the most important questions which haunt the intersection between the Catholic Faith and modern culture. What would your list include? Where would you look for answers? No, this time I am not talking about CatholicCulture.org. But I do think this is a worthwhile experiment, and I also think I can tell you where to go for answers or, at the very least, I can give you an easy way to understand more perfectly what your questions imply, and what issues they involve. Let&apos;s start with Faith and work out toward culture, in the tradition of this website. ]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:44:01 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>African Catholicism comes of age: the Synod message</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[That Africa is a deeply troubled continent, few would deny; the evidence of poverty, disease, bloodshed, and repression is all too evident in all too many places. Rather than simply lamenting the suffering of Africa&apos;s peoples, the Synod of Bishops for Africa-- which concluded its discussions this past weekend in Rome--  challenged the people of the dark continent to acknowledge their own responsibility for their plight, and act now to apply remedies. ]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:27 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>The Jewel of Celibacy</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Phil Lawler is undoubtedly correct that the rule of celibacy will not be relaxed for Catholics of the Roman Rite when married Anglican priests begin to appear under a new Catholic ordinariate. He may also be correct that Eastern Rite churches will gradually permit more of their married clergy to serve in the West as we become accustomed to married clergy through a growing familiarity with our Anglo-Catholic brethren. (See The Anglicans and the Eastern Churches.)]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:23:32 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>The Pope's bold invitation to Anglicans</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[With a single, bold stroke that caught nearly everyone by surprise, Pope Benedict XVI has eased the way for tradition-minded Anglicans who wish to enter the Catholic Church. [See the CWN headline story.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:36:20 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>As Africa goes . . .</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Quite a bit has been written in the last few years about the rising importance of religion in the world, especially in the &quot;global south&quot;,  and particularly in Africa. Those who are paying attention to world affairs with at least some attempt at objectivity recognize, for example, that the tendency of the United States to treat all world problems from a purely secular point of view--as if religion is as insignificant in the lives of everyone else as it is for American political leaders--is extremely counter-productive diplomatically, especially in the Middle East and, again, in the global south. ]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:43:47 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>What about Bad Music?</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[It is a feature of human nature that all normal persons respond emotionally to music. For this reason, music is often described in emotional or quasi-emotional terms. It may be languorous or bombastic, martial or lyrical, peaceful or agitated, soothing or exciting, and so on. But in addition to the connection between music and human moods, music is also perceived as beautiful (or ugly) and the human intellect naturally wishes to understand those properties of music which, if properly manipulated, produce beauty. Finally, the essentially moral character of the human person leads us to ask whether music can affect either morals in particular or spirituality in general and, if so, how.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:55:13 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Family Size, Social Development, Selfishness and Love</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[My wife teaches English to seniors at Seton School in Manassas, Virginia, and all the seniors are required to compose regularly in a journal so that, by sheer frequency, they become more comfortable with writing. Recently, one budding literary talent wrote humorously of the reactions she gets from different people when they learn that she has nine brothers and sisters. These reactions typically run from disbelief through ill-disguised horror. They raise interesting questions about both our culture and ourselves.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:38:44 GMT</pubDate> 

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