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    <title>Off the Record: Notes from the Newsroom (CatholicCulture.org)</title>

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    <description>The popular blog of Catholic World News, now available exclusively at CatholicCulture.org.</description>

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      <title>demographics a la McBrien</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The unsinkable Richard McBrien, yet again correcting the errors that he has discovered in statements emanating from the Vatican, wonders why the Holy See could ever suspect a problem with American women&apos;s religious orders. He contrasts the obtuse attitude of the Vatican with the mature wisdom of Sister Sandra Schneiders, who &amp;quot;insisted that the decline in the number of women religious follows the demographic trends for the greater female population.&amp;quot;]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:52:18 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>the Pope's big chance</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;During his meeting with President Obama, Dan Gilgoff of US News tells us, &amp;quot;Benedict will be aware of operating on a global stage.&amp;quot;]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:17:35 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>wait; did I hear that right?</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;We all know-- or ought to know, since the evidence is plentiful-- that Margaret Sanger, the patron saint of Planned Parenthood, was a racist and eugenicist. She favored legal abortion as a means of controlling the growth of the racial groups she deemed inferior. But that&apos;s all ancient history now. We don&apos;t dredge up the distasteful facts about the origins of the population-control movement.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:07:19 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>no PR chops</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;The Washington Post reported&amp;nbsp;on July 2 that the release of Pope Benedict&apos;s social encyclical had been delayed until the week of the G8 meeting in Italy. That&apos;s quite true. Yet you can&apos;t help but wonder whether the Post really understands what&apos;s going on, because:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:36:03 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>hit me again...  please!</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;When I was a teenager, attending a high school staffed by the Christian Brothers of Ireland, we laughed when we said that the &amp;quot;ICB&amp;quot; stood for &amp;quot;International Child Beaters.&amp;quot; Sure, we were all acquainted with &amp;quot;the strap&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;the stick.&amp;quot; Discipline was strict; corporal punishment was routine. But it was a good school, a generally healthy atmosphere, a solid education. I look back on those days with pleasure and with gratitude-- even if I do still wince when I remember Brother O&apos;Sullivan&apos;s windup.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:44:29 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>the unborn baby and the bath water</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For more than a decade, thousands of older women undergoing in-vitro fertilization have relied on an expensive embryo-screening procedure to boost their chances of getting pregnant.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:15:35 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>praying with-- or against-- the Church</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;How do you plan to live out this Year for Priests?&amp;nbsp;]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>call a grownup</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;We shouldn&apos;t realize expect European commentators to understand the American political scene. So the rosy portrait of Barack Obama painted on the pages of L&apos;Osservatore Romano, while annoying, are not necessarily cause for panic about the Vatican paper&apos;s editorial slant.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:50:58 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>sorry for the distraction</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[&amp;nbsp;So it appears that Caritas Christi, the health-care agency of the Boston archdiocese, won&apos;t be involved in the abortion business after all. Thank God for that.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:04:39 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Miller's analogy</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Boys and girls, it&apos;s that time of year again to practice for those pesky analogy problems on college entrance exams.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:09:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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