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		<title>An Open Letter to the Editor Who Fired Mark Shea</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear ____: Several days ago, National Catholic Register announced that it had dismissed Mark Shea, the blogger, pundit and apologist. As a faithful Catholic, longtime Register patron, and minor pundit in my own right, I consider this decision both unmerciful and short-sighted. I write now in the hope of persuading you to reverse it. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lessons from Erdoğan&#8217;s Victory</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The mighty Turkish army foiled by the cast of Les Miz? That seems one likely takeaway from the military coup attempt that crashed and burned last Friday. After troops seized key locations in Istanbul, Ankara, and other cities, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a personal appeal to his countrymen via Facetime, ordering them to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mamma Mia!  Emergency Baptism at 30,000 Feet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 22:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed, reader, that I haven’t blogged much lately. There’s a reason for that: I’ve been turning my hand to fiction. My chief talent, such as it is, is for storytelling. Blogging, when it attempts to rise above simple news aggregation, tends to become opinion writing. At least it does if it means [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>My First Orthodox Liturgy: A Blast for A Rainy Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Strolling through Moscow in the spring and summer of 1997, you couldn’t lose sight of the sacred if you wanted to. The municipal government was working doggedly to rebuild the Cathedral of Christ the Savior – at 103 meters, the tallest Orthodox church in the world. With a bone-white exterior and domes of blinding gold, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bursa Suicide Bombing and the Return of History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can’t keep a dog in downtown Bursa. The people are too pious. Or maybe “traditional” is a better word. In either case, they believe dogs are unclean and the enemies of angels. A Colombian friend of mine who has a golden retriever – named “Athena,” after a pagan goddess and a Greek to boot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Amoris Laetitia and the Family Road Trip</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2016 14:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A confession: I’m in no hurry to get through Amoris Laetitia. Two hundred, sixty-four pages is a lot of Pope Francis to dive into all eagerski-beaverski and heedless-like. The first two chapters, however, have gone down smoothly enough. As usual, the pontiff demonstrates a firm grasp on How We Live Now, but he addresses those [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Little Blood Never Hurt Anyone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 01:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shortly after recovering from a nervous breakdown that culminated in a suicide attempt, William Cowper composed a hymn titled “Praise for the Fountain Opened,” which begins with the following verses: There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins; And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Running six stanzas, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Je Suis &#8212; I mean, Ich bin ein Jan Böhmermann</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1998, Istanbul Mayor Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was sentenced to 10 months in prison for violating a law against inciting religious hatred. The nature of his violation? He read a poem that included the lines “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.” The poem [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Muslim Student&#8217;s Grounding Proves We&#8217;re Getting to Know Each Other</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend Khalid’s mother, a native of Karachi, was named “Shaheda.” She stressed the first syllable and pronounced the middle vowel like a schwa. One day while she and her husband were tending the family liquor store, a woman in her early 20s sauntered in wearing a halter top with the same name picked out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Keeping My Brother &#8212; Exp. Not Nec. but a +</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Max Lindenman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 10:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[. When I first saw the guy groping his way down the aisle with his eyes fixed on the carpet, I thought he was blind. Then, after he settled gingerly into the pew in front of mine, I smelled the truth: he was blitzed. He exhaled a bouquet of domestic beer – the kind you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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