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	<title>Michelle Arnold</title>
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	<description>Once a Catholic apologist, always a writer.</description>
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		<title>Engagement Rings are the New Olympic Rings, and I Hate It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 02:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Call me a crabby, bitter spinster, but a new trend has been popping up over the last few Olympics cycles and I hate it. Just plug “woman gets engaged at the Olympics” into your favorite search engine and a plethora of stories will pop up. Seeing these stories always sets my teeth on edge. At [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Yes, Father, YTA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 23:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harrison Butker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[priest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reddit]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I enjoy reading Reddit’s popular forum, Am I the A**h*le? (AITA). Curious souls who wonder if they might have behaved badly submit their conundrums to the often very biased judgment of the Internet, which tells them in no uncertain terms whether or not they are indeed the AH in the scenario they recounted. Some of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;I Hated That Woman!&#8221;: The Human Frailty of the Saints</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cabrini film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canonization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Frances Cabrini]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catholics are already arguing about a new movie set to hit theaters in March. Cabrini, produced by Angel Studios, which also gave us the television series The Chosen, tells the story of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint. Mother Cabrini, who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy in 1889, spent her life building [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Converting the World Isn&#8217;t All It&#8217;s Cracked Up to Be</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I became Catholic in 1996, it was Testimony Time in the Church in the United States. Conversion stories were everywhere—audio and video presentations, magazine articles, books. There was even a television show on a Catholic television network dedicated to interviewing prominent converts. As a convert myself, I read and listened to as many conversion [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hold the Tots and Pears</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parish life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[… or, The Gentle Art of Keeping Your Prayers to Yourself Jesus’ best known advice on prayer is to keep it to yourself. He told his disciples, “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven…. Whenever you pray, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Confessions of an Inconsistent Scribbler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anglican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mansplaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Titan submersible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My patient content manager here at Patheos gently reminded me recently that it has been a while since I last dropped in some content. I’d been experiencing some life events over the last six months that severely impacted my creative output, which was why I hadn’t been working. When I got to thinking about it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Choice Is Mary&#8217;s</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dobbs v. Jackson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Mary]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Years ago, at Advent, I wrote an essay for Catholic Answers on St. Matthew’s account of St. Joseph’s choice: what to do about finding his betrothed pregnant with a child he knew couldn’t be his own. For the most part, the essay was well-received and remains a favorite of mine. I’d share a link with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Missionary Friendship v. Authentic Kindness</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/michellearnold/2022/10/missionary-friendship-v-authentic-kindness/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 05:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fr. Richard Heilman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gospel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humans of New York]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the decade or so I’ve been on Facebook, I’ve made it a point to avoid building for myself a self-affirming social media bubble. Scrolling through my newsfeed on any given day is likely to yield all kinds of reactions to current events, and all kinds of perspectives on matters of faith and life. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Catholic Answers and the Trouble with Yoga</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/michellearnold/2022/10/catholic-answers-and-the-trouble-with-yoga/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 04:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yoga]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a recent Dark Devotional for Sick Pilgrim, I commented on how Catholic Answers, where I worked for two decades as a staff apologist, seems to be busying itself with re-creating all of the content I’d contributed over the years I worked there and that they have since chosen to scrub from their site. After [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pro-Lifers and the Case of the Invisible Woman</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/michellearnold/2022/06/pro-lifers-and-the-case-of-the-invisible-woman/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Arnold]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abigail Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dobbs v. Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Amy Coney Barrett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice John Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice Samuel Alito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pro-choice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Roe v. Wade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trent Horn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I really don’t have the mental energy right now to dive deep into the cluster—, um, “mess,” that is the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that was released last Friday, June 24. For a snapshot of my mental space right now in the wake of this decision, I’ll share with you a brief [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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