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		<title>Do we need Philosophy when we have Science?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shadowsontheroad/2015/12/do-we-need-philosophy-when-we-have-science/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, I’m on holidays from my first term at university (sorry blog, will do better once I’m doing less economics) and as I’m studying Philosophy (among other things), I have been ever more regularly exposed to the view that Philosophy is Useless. Not that I hadn’t come across it before. The idea is a pretty common one: that we don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Understanding Pro-Lifers: An Open Letter to Una Mullally</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don’t want this to become just “Ben’s pro-life blog”, and I’ve got a post on the refugee crisis coming soon. But Una Mullally, a pro-choice Irish Times columnist who I’ve debated with several times in the past, just wrote a piece about abortion, and I wanted to write in response it. I’m not generally a fan [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are pro-lifers sadder than pro-choicers?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shadowsontheroad/2015/08/are-pro-lifers-sadder-than-pro-choicers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was blogging over at the Iona Institute, the think-tank at which I work, about euthanasia, and the tenor of the whole thing was rather sad. It ended like this: You can have a look through Anscombe’s evidence guide here. I don’t think that many people will. I don’t think very much of this will get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Abolishing Abortion: Why I fear the European Equilibrium</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shadowsontheroad/2015/08/abolishing-abortion-why-i-fear-the-european-equilibrium/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2015 01:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the Planned Parenthood “fetal tissue resarch” videos were shining a spotlight on abortion in the US, putting abortion-rights organisations on the defensive and prompting queasiness and sometimes deep thought among pro-choice people, as the Republican Party were once more attempting to have Planned Parenthood defunded, and Marco Rubio was announcing his support for a complete [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Tuam Babies and the Golden Age of Children&#8217;s Rights</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shadowsontheroad/2015/06/the-tuam-babies-and-the-golden-age/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 02:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Does the modern west really put children first? Ross Douthat has just written a clear, powerful, and quite devastating analysis of the particular flavour of social liberalism that’s coming to dominate our culture. His take is that the new morality favours the rights and privileges of adults over those of children: … with the advance of social [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Irish Catholicism After Gay Marriage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2015 02:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Samwise Gamgee once said: “I’m back.” For the past few months, I’ve been occupied – no, fairer to say “consumed by” – participating in the campaign for a No vote in Ireland’s referendum to legalise same sex marriage. I was very much a reluctant warrior on the whole question. As a friend put it to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stephen Fry and the Straw Man Theodicy</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shadowsontheroad/2015/02/stephen-fry-and-the-straw-man-theodicy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 22:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Faith and Doubt]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Stephen Fry recently had a bit of a go at God on Irish television, telling veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne that “The God who created this universe, if he created this universe, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish.” He indicts the nonexistent God for creating a universe with bone cancer and flies [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fair play to Leo: quick thoughts on Ireland&#8217;s first gay minister</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ireland’s Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, came out this morning in a radio interview, becoming Ireland’s first openly gay Cabinet Minister. Apparently Minister Varadkar was already out to people close to him, but hadn’t previously made a public statement on the matter. Thankfully, the response in Ireland to Varadkar’s announcement has been overwhelmingly positive.  About [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why We All Need Faith (The Argument From Zombies)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Apologies, all, for my prolonged abscence: I’m still figuring out this whole work/life/blog balance business. Fortunately I was recently reminded of one of the things I always wanted to write about in the event that I one day started blogging, and was thus inspired to go forth and blog about it. What did I want to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Loving People In Their Particularity: Making it Easier NOT to Receive Communion</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/shadowsontheroad/2014/11/loving-people-in-their-particularity-making-it-easier-not-to-receive-communion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Conroy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leah Libresco ran a symposium last week on “Loving Parishioners in their Particularity” about concrete ways that the Church can welcome people in unusual or difficult circumstances. There’ve been a variety of excellent suggestions as to how to welcome specific groups of people – those suffering with depression, single people, or people with disabilities. My proposal (one that’s probably too [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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