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    <title>CatholicCulture.org - Commentary: Off the Record</title>

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      <title>Nolo contendere</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[In a recent speech Archbishop Thomas Collins of Toronto addressed the moral responsibilities of bishops who learn about sexual misconduct by their priests or their episcopal colleagues:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:36:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>well ... we could bake something</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Now here&apos;s a lousy idea. Ireland&apos;s talented Friar Joe wants to exhibit his artwork as &amp;quot;a visual response to the Ryan Report, a document which revealed widespread abuse in industrial and reformatory schools run by religious orders.&amp;quot;]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:31:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>tell me another</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Get this.  The Chicago Tribune digs up a doc who says the problem with the Stupak-Pitts amendment is -- can you guess? -- its threat to the health of the mother:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:47:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>why stand in the way of true love?</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[I suppose it&apos;s only a matter of time before the Thought Police finally catch up with Amherst Professor Hadley Arkes and drag him off to his dungeon.  Before that hour arrives, however, he always has something worthwhile to teach us.  This from today&apos;s offering at The Catholic Thing:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:17:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>the hobgoblin of a large mind</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Here&apos;s the headline for a news column by Ruth Gledhill, appearing in the Times online for November 9:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:51:15 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>the unthinkable</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Its story is headlined Abortion Was at Heart of Wrangling.&amp;nbsp; The&amp;nbsp;New York Times comes close to tears in its sympathy for Nancy Pelosi&apos;s thwarted efforts to insure those darling wee homicides out of the public purse:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:11:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>gather me out</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Affective maturity meets spiritual paternity in Pennsylvania:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:04:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>fried</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Dr. Kirk Smith, the Episcopal Bishop of Arizona, is one seriously ailing hombre.  It seems the announcement of a Personal Ordinariate for convert Anglicans splashed some seltzer onto his motherboard.  The sparks are pretty before the circuits go (via Chris Johnson):]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:53:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>for art's sake</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[When I tell you that Rocco Landesman sees Barack Obama as &amp;quot;the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar,&amp;quot; you probably won&apos;t be surprised to learn that Rocco Landesman owes his current job-- as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts-- to an appointment by Barack Obama.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>andrew sullivan's own-goal</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan formidably strengthens the case against gay priests.  How?  By coming to the defense of gay priests.  His petulant door-slamming and rhetorical flouncing in response to an imperturbable Church exemplifies that juvenile recklessness she insists is incompatible with the priesthood.  Sullivan begins his most recent tiff with a message from a sympathetic reader:]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:33:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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