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    <title>National Catholic Register Bloggers feed from Joan Desmond</title>
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    <description>Joan Frawley Desmond, is the Register’s senior editor. She is an award&#45;winning journalist widely published in Catholic, ecumenical and secular media. A graduate of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family, she  lives with her family in California..</description>
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      <title>Humanae Vitae: Who Is Out of Touch?</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  July 26, 2018, marks the 50th&nbsp;anniversary of Pope Paul VI&rsquo;s encyclical, Humanae Vitae, but few expect the occasion to prompt celebrations in Rome.

A papal commission has quietly undertaken a &ldquo;historical-critical investigation&rdquo; of...]]></description>
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      <title>&#8216;The 15:17 to Paris&#8217; Shows That Ordinary People Can Be Extraordinary</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  Once there was a lost, fatherless boy named Spencer Stone, who worried his mother and antagonized his teacher.

Spencer liked to stare&nbsp;out the window during math class. His teacher recommended&nbsp;ADD meds. &nbsp;

Instead,&nbsp;his...]]></description>
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      <title>&#8216;I Lived on Parker Avenue&#8217; Seeks to Revive the Adoption Option</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  David Scotton knew he was adopted from the time he was a toddler. His parents had never hidden the truth about his origins, nor did they give their son any reason to doubt their unconditional love and support.

But during his...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2018-01-18</dc:date>
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      <title>NYTimes to Cardinal Tobin: Prove That God is Real</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  When New York Times&rsquo; columnist and author Nicholas Kristof interviewed Cardinal Joseph Tobin for a Yuletide Q&amp;A, the journalist prodded the archbishop of Newark to defend the miracles attributed to Jesus&nbsp;and the Scriptural basis...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2018-01-3</dc:date>
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      <title>6 Things You Discover When You Give Up Shopping</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  Last year, as 2016 drew to a close, a rough election year left the Catholic writer&nbsp;Ann Patchett&nbsp;&ldquo;mindlessly scrolling through two particular shopping websites, numbing my fears with pictures of shoes, clothes, purses and...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-12-18</dc:date>
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      <title>&#8216;Lady Bird&#8217; is an Unusual, Hopeful Movie</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  [Editor&#39;s Note: This post was updated Dec. 19.&nbsp; Since writing this post, I have read Bishop Robert Barron&#39;s column,&nbsp;"Lady Bird and the Breakthrough of Grace,"&nbsp;and wanted to bring it to&nbsp;readers&#39; attention.&nbsp; It is well worth...]]></description>
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      <title>Are We Crossing a Bright Red Line in the Roy Moore Case?</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  As powerful men in entertainment, politics and business face credible accusations of sexual harassment and assault, the Democratic Party has finally begun to reassess its response to similarly egregious claims against former U.S....]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-11-21</dc:date>
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      <title>Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop Naumann Vie to Lead US Bishops&#8217; Pro&#45;Life Efforts</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  On Tuesday the U.S. bishops will elect the new chair of their Pro-life Activities Committee, and the outcome of this closely-watched contest serves as a &ldquo;barometer of support for&nbsp;Pope Francis among the American hierarchy,&rdquo;...]]></description>
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      <title>California Gov. to Vatican: &#8216;Brainwashing&#8217; Needed to Tackle Climate Change</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  &ldquo;At the highest circles, people still don&rsquo;t get it,&rdquo; said Brown, during his 40-minute speech at a climate change conference organized by the Pontifical Academy for Sciences.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just a light rinse&rdquo; that is needed, he added....]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-11-12</dc:date>
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      <title>What Are Campus Protesters Really Angry About?</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  Why would angry college protesters on the beautiful grounds of Middlebury College attack a middle-aged professor, sending her to a hospital emergency room for treatment of a concussion?

What led students at the University of...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-10-31</dc:date>
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      <title>California to Offer Third Gender Option on Legal Documents</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the Gender Recognition Act of 2017. The law adds &ldquo;nonbinary&rdquo; to male and female in official state documents. Residents who identify as transgender have applauded the new...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-10-25</dc:date>
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      <title>Why Every Catholic Should Applaud Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s Nobel Prize</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  &nbsp;Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and five other acclaimed English-language novels, was awarded the Nobel Prize on Thursday.&nbsp;

No doubt, Ishiguro&rsquo;s Catholic fans, myself...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-10-6</dc:date>
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      <title>How Lupus Changed Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s Writing and Took Her Life</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  Flannery O&rsquo;Connor was just 25 years old, and already a promising writer, when she was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, the disease that killed her father.

Told she had just five years to live, the young Catholic left...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-10-3</dc:date>
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      <title>Sorry, George Clooney, the Southern Poverty Law Center Can&#8217;t be Trusted</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  This week, as the public outcry over the violent racist protests in Charlottesville continued, George Clooney and his wife, Amal, announced that their foundation would give $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center for a joint...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2017-08-24</dc:date>
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      <title>3 Lessons That Help Explain Jane Austen&#8217;s Enduring Popularity</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Joan Desmond |  Why do readers still pore over Jane Austen&rsquo;s books, two hundred years after their publication?

Puzzled researches have employed data analytics to get to the bottom of this mystery. The New York Times&rsquo; data scientists explain why...]]></description>
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