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    <title>National Catholic Register Bloggers feed from Mark Shea</title>
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    <description>Mark P. Shea is a popular Catholic writer and speaker. The author of numerous books, his most recent work is The Work of Mercy (Servant) and The Heart of Catholic Prayer (Our Sunday Visitor). Mark contributes numerous articles to many magazines, including his popular column “Connecting the Dots” for the National Catholic Register. Mark is known nationally for his one minute “Words of Encouragement” on Catholic radio. He also maintains the Catholic and Enjoying It blog. He lives in Washington state with his wife, Janet, and their four sons.</description>
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      <title>What Sort of Story Are We In?</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Joy, said Chesterton, is the small publicity of the pagan, but the gigantic secret of the Christian. This somewhat mysterious remark was brought into sharp clarity for me by, of all things, the memory of a Twilight Zone episode I saw...]]></description>
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      <title>&amp;quot;Why Me?&amp;quot; Why Not Me?</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  One of the curious side effects of my line of work as a Catholic writer is that people will sometimes confess very odd phenomena they normally won&rsquo;t discuss with people who aren&rsquo;t known for believing in miracles. Some years ago, a...]]></description>
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      <title>Catholic Converts and Cradle Catholics</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Once upon a time,&nbsp;I was talking with a friend,&nbsp;a fellow convert who (as is common with us) was wondering why on earth Catholics who don&#39;t believe much of what the Church teaches stay. He was greatly puzzled about the tendency of many...]]></description>
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      <title>Vacation!</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  As you read this the Sheas are chilling in a tent on the shores of the mighty Pacific Ocean&nbsp;here in our beloved Washington State.

I love every part of this annual sojourn.&nbsp; I love the packing.&nbsp; I love the excitement of the kids.&nbsp; I...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-08-5</dc:date>
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      <title>Gratitude</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  The center of our Faith is Eucharist. Eucharist means &ldquo;thanksgiving&rdquo;. That means that the center of our Faith is thanksgiving. It is in the form of a thanksgiving meal that our Lord chose to make Himself present to us. And He did so,...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-08-1</dc:date>
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      <title>Priests are Men, Not Vending Machines</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  When I was a kid I believed my family knew everything. My brother Mike, after all, could work wonder by turning me invisible with a mere &ldquo;Abracadabra!&rdquo; I&rsquo;d run around the house waving at everybody and making faces and they would all...]]></description>
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      <title>Love Meeting Love: Ecumenism For Us Ordinary People</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  I run into lots of Catholics who feel bad about the divided state of Christendom yet also feel powerless to do anything about it. "After all, this is the 20th Century. Don&#39;t most Protestants know what we believe already?" they say....]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-07-22</dc:date>
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      <title>What I Learned on a Walk With My Little Boy</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Long, long ago--when the giant man in my house named Peter (who just turned 21) was only 3 and his kid brother Sean was only 2--it was a daily occurrence that (barring rain) I would be&nbsp;summoned "owside" as my two year old Sean said...]]></description>
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      <title>Imagine if People Actually Fell for John Lennon&#039;s Nonsense</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Sometime back,  I wrote a little piece about John Lennon&rsquo;s hymn to original sin (aka &ldquo;Imagine&rdquo;) expressing my bafflement at the fact that people (including Catholics who ought to know better) regard this as a hope-filled anthem of...]]></description>
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      <title>We Say &#8220;Marana Tha&#8221;, Not &#8220;Klaatu Barada Nikto&#8221;</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Here&rsquo;s an article by an atheist who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jack Chick. He theorizes on What Rome Is Up To when a couple of Catholic sources remark that the discovery of life on other planets poses no particular threat to the...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-07-11</dc:date>
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      <title>St. Thomas Aquinas and the Sciences</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  It is notable that when St. Thomas argues for the existence of God he does not point to seeming exceptions to the laws of nature and ask, "Why are there exceptions to the rules?" That&#39;s because he knows the work of the sciences is to...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-07-8</dc:date>
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      <title>Would Jesus Salute the Flag?</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  The origin of the term "holiday" is Holy Day. A Holy Day is a day set apart for something. Our present understanding of the term "holy" always assumes that the thing set apart is set apart for God. This is not surprising. Words like...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-07-4</dc:date>
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      <title>How I Came to Think Differently about Mary</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  It once seemed perfectly obvious to me that Catholics honored Mary too much. All those feasts, rosaries, icons, statues and whatnot were ridiculously excessive. Yes, the gospel of Luke said something about her being "blessed" and yes...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-07-1</dc:date>
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      <title>There is Only One &#8220;Real Jesus&#8221;; Accept No Substitutes</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Here&#39;s an email about a website called "New Covenant Ministries" (a self described "No-nonsense, Honest, Direct, Prophetic, Apostolic, Priesthood of All Believers [Men and Women], Post-Trib, Sabbatarian, Messianic-Israelite,...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-06-27</dc:date>
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      <title>How Tradition Gave Us the Bible</title>
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                  <description><![CDATA[By Mark Shea |  Last time, in this space, we started looking at how doctrine develops in the life of the Church. &nbsp;Today, we will take a look specifically at how the Church&#39;s doctrine regarding "which books should we read in the liturgy?" developed....]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2016-06-24</dc:date>
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