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    <title>National Catholic Register Bloggers Feed from Tom  Hoopes</title>
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    <description>Tom Hoopes is Vice President of College Relations and writer in residence at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. He has written for the Register for more than 20 years and was its executive editor for 10. His writing has appeared in First Things’ First Thoughts, National Review Online, Crisis, Our Sunday Visitor, Inside Catholic and Columbia. He has served as press secretary for the Chairman of the U.S. House Ways &amp; Means Committee. He and his wife, April, were editorial co&#45;directors of Faith &amp; Family magazine for 5 years. They have nine children.</description>
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      <title>Apollo 11 and the Curse of the Ark and the Dove</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  Fifty years ago, Apollo 11 was sent by religious men onto the moon where, with 20% of the world watching, they hid their faith.

Their deferential pusillanimity is a not-so-grand American tradition that may have been started, and...]]></description>
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      <title>Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete: The Unkempt Man, the Brilliant Priest</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By TOM HOOPES |  I first met Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete on Capitol Hill. I was the Press Secretary for Congressman Bill Archer and he was the featured talent in a Knights of Columbus initiative to teach hill staffers about the Bible.

He sat with us in...]]></description>
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      <title>Top 10 Reasons It Makes Sense That St. John Paul II Loved &#039;Princess Bride&#039;</title>
      <link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/tom&#45;hoopes/top&#45;ten&#45;reasons&#45;it&#45;makes&#45;sense&#45;that&#45;john&#45;paul&#45;ii&#45;loved&#45;princess&#45;bride</link>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  The news is terrible, the future worrisome. What better time to relax with Princess Bride?

In his new book about the making of the movie Princess Bride, Cary Elwes reveals some surprising fans the 1980s comedy-adventure movie has...]]></description>
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      <title>Why Catholics Are Grateful to George W. Bush</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  
	After yesterday&rsquo;s opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, many in the media are taking a look back at the presidency of George W. Bush after a little time to put it in perspective, and the results do a...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2013-04-26</dc:date>
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      <title>The Power of Catholic Fridays</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By TOM HOOPES |  
	Friday starts to work on you when you are a child.

	You wake up, and it&rsquo;s Friday. You don&rsquo;t understand why adults say, "TGIF." For a child, a Friday is painful, because it is almost, but not yet, Saturday.

	Your lunch bag has a...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2013-03-15</dc:date>
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      <title>The Two Threats to Christmas</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By TOM HOOPES |  
	There are two major threats to Christmas each year: the marketplace and the state.

	The marketplace is a threat because it takes everything beautiful, banalizes it, mass produces it and puts a price tag on it. It changes the...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-12-11</dc:date>
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      <title>Time for True Democrats to Start Their Own Party</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By TOM HOOPES |  
	It&rsquo;s time for Catholics to lead true Democrats to start their own party.

	Catholic Democrats are in a terrible quandary. They vehemently disagree with the Republicans&rsquo; approach to policy, so they won&rsquo;t vote for them.

	And since...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-09-8</dc:date>
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      <title>To April, 20 Years Later</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By TOM HOOPES |  
	April, 20 years ago on my last night as a single man, I lay in bed staring at the ceiling unable to sleep in the middle of the night. I was afraid you were making a huge mistake by marrying me &mdash; one for which I was largely to...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2012-08-15</dc:date>
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      <title>Farewell, Dear Reader</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  Today, as Lent gives way to the Triduum, I set aside my mouse with a sigh and bid these fond blog pages adieu.

I’m going to miss this place. But today I start a new job here at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas (vice...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-04-1</dc:date>
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      <title>Courage and Conviction: The Obama Difference</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  The health care bill that passed Congress was terrible. It funded abortion. The executive order that accompanied it was a temporary fig leaf at best. The bill created a bureaucratic mess. It was shoved down the throat of an...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-26</dc:date>
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      <title>Top 10 Differences, Boys&#39; and Girls&#39; 1st Communions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  For all those parents who have children preparing for First Communion in the coming months, we know boys and girls experience the same thing: They receive the sacrament of reconciliation and then the body, blood soul and divinity...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-23</dc:date>
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      <title>Bart Stupak&#39;s Defining Moment</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  Bart Stupak faced the defining moment of his career last weekend and, fair or not, he defined himself by it. He had the chance to be a profile in political courage. But he is now the pro-lifer who caved for the paltriest of...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-22</dc:date>
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      <title>Catechism vs. Health Care Reform</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  If you’re a Catholic and you believe the Catechism implicitly then you believe that health care is a right and you&#8217;re inclined to support a bill that expands access to health care. You are inclined to hate the skyrocketing costs...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-18</dc:date>
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      <title>Top 10 Things I Do When I Give Up Facebook in Lent</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  In honor of Sunday, here are my own coping strategies for giving up Facebook in Lent.

10. Call friends at random and say: “Tom is just hanging out after an exhausting day. Whew! Good to be home! ;-)” 

9. (Add, to the friend:...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-14</dc:date>
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      <title>My Extraordinary Friends</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By Tom  Hoopes |  I’m going to do my best to defend the Extraordinary Form after the onslaught by John Zmirak, but he’s made it hard. I think introducing the world to two of my Extraordinary Form friends will help.

Yes, that’s right, for...]]></description>
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      <dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
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