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	<title>Coming down to Earth</title>
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	<description>Reality and Christian faith converge.</description>
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		<title>Why They Hate Pro-Lifers So</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The pro-life argument is overpoweringly clear to me. But in argument against supporters of legalized abortion, I was always puzzled because I could not grasp their reasons. Maybe they didn’t understand their own reasons, either. I seldom heard reasons for their point of view, but far more often intense emotional blasts. “Keep your rosaries off [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>On Loving Karen</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My dear Karen died of a hard-fought cancer on August 12, 2009. I wrote the following verse a few months later. Reprinted from All Nature Is a Sacramental Fire (St. Augustine’s Press, 2011). * * * Thank you, lady, for reminding me what it was like To fall in love with Karen Fifty years ago. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ave Maria at the Beach</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 06:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ave Maria]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the last three summers, I have been very lucky to hire students from Ave Maria University to help me finish some writing, pack up boxes of books, arrange my papers, clear out the beach house and give things to various charities, and the like. I hope they forgive me for calling them “the kids,” [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Welcome to America, Pope Francis!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 06:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first pope to visit the United States was Paul VI in October 1965, just before the close of Vatican II. Pope John Paul II during his long reign visited seven times. And Benedict came in 2008. So there is already a tradition of popes getting to know our country. The history of famous Europeans [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pope Francis Asked for Help on Economics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2015 06:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leo XIII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral ecology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the plane from Paraguay last week, Pope Francis seemed to ask for dialogue with Americans on points he might address during his visit here in September. Following a question from a journalist about reaction to his recent remarks on economics, the pope said, “I heard that there were some criticisms from the United States. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Papal Humility</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On his way from Paraguay back to Rome recently, Pope Francis showed signs of personal humility, directly in front of the world’s press, that must be unrivaled in papal history. Three times in the short interview of sixty-five minutes, Francis confessed that in his public teaching, especially on economics, he had not spoken well, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Environmentalism &#8211; Part Three</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2015 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Henry Adams saw that science and technology were the masculine “Dynamo” of our progress – but he intuited that they needed to be balanced by a feminine nurturing of nature, which nurturing he expressed in the symbol of the “Virgin.” There is now a battle under way in Western culture as to the precise meaning [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Environmentalism &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Ps 33:6). This tells us that the world came about as the result of a decision, not from chaos or chance, and this exalts it all the more. The creating word expresses a free choice. The universe did not emerge as the result of arbitrary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Blue Environmentalism &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In view of the new encyclical of Pope Francis, I would like to revisit the idea of “Blue Environmentalism.” This short series is an adaptation of some of my writing from 2003. * * * It would be a shame for the Magisterial significance of Laudato Si’ to be obscured among arguments over empirical worldly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Millennia of Experience Matter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Novak]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 06:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Caritas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the things I like best about the Catholic intellectual tradition is that, having passed through the storms of so many diverse cultures, it has picked up along the way a very rich vocabulary for discussing even humble matters. For instance, the Latin word (from a Greek root) caritas. What the word gives in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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