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		<title>“A Palpable Hopefulness”: A Book Response and a Wish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lady of the Angels and Her City: A Marian Pilgrimage by Wendy M. Wright Liturgical Press, 2013 I can&#8217;t think of a better day than May 13, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, to bring to your attention Wendy Wright&#8217;s new book&#8212;and to make a wish for Wendy herself. The publisher&#8217;s description sums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic and Crazy: The Asylum of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re locked in a rubber room, wearing paper pajamas that leave far too little to the imagination, trying to find patterns in the ceiling tiles as cracked as your brain, you wouldn&#8217;t expect to find yourself conversing with the spirit of an Irish teenager 1400 years dead&#8212;murdered by her own father, the story goes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Buses: The Love That Builds Bridges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregory Boyle SJ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immaculate Heart High School]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=966</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This started to be a story about attending my 45th high school reunion last Sunday. But it&#8217;s really more a story about the ways a good mother loves&#8212;which is to say, it&#8217;s a story about God. Alma Mater The first mother in this story is my alma mater, my soul-mother, Immaculate Heart High School. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Breaking of the Bread: A Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Recipe for Joy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robin Davis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recipe for Joy: A Stepmom&#8217;s Story of Finding Faith, Following Love, and Feeding a Family by Robin Davis Loyola Press, 2013 We&#8217;re all on a journey of faith, love, and family. It&#8217;s a journey with detours and U-turns, scenic roads and midnight breakdowns. But whether in Emmaus or Columbus or wherever (as the airline pilots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something New, Something Other: An Annunciation Diptych</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation, liturgically transferred from March 25 this year because Holy Week and the Octave of Easter take precedence over any other feast. I love the art of the Annunciation, from its earliest Byzantine expressions through the many beautiful and thought-provoking contemporary depictions of the angelic greeting to Mary. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, Mercy, Mercy Me, Still</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Divine Mercy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From last year, slightly updated, my tangled relationship with the Divine Mercy devotion: Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can&#8217;t go on And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me their song And I hope you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The whole earth is our hospital”: Good Friday in Painting and Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some reflections on the Passion in art and poetry, from last year&#8217;s Good Friday post. I find myself longing for the respectful quiet of the earlier Good Fridays in my life. I know that Church and State were, if anything, even more clearly separated when I was a child, but in the Catholic (with occasional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims &amp; Convicts &amp; Girls’ Toes, Oh My!</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/2013/03/muslims-convicts-girls-toes-oh-my.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stop it. Stop it right this minute. Stop looking at the coverage of Pope Francis&#8217;s visit to the Casal del Marmo juvenile detention facility to celebrate the Mass of the Lord&#8217;s Supper and then going into full Three Stooges Slapfest Mode on social media about it. Stop charging the Holy Father with heresy for deviating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Catholic, Again</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/2013/03/why-i-am-catholic-again.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholicism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/egregioustwaddle/?p=921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to a Patheos prompt inviting bloggers to explain, in 200 words or less, why they follow their particular religious traditions, here is my apologia. The &#8220;again&#8221; in the title of this post is meant in two senses: As a revert, I am a Catholic again after many years away from my cradle faith; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Something to Love, Something to Be Bugged By”: Pummeled by The Anchoress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joanne McPortland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t sleep last night, playing out my crankiness over the Pope Wars in mental and spoken potential posts of staggering snarkiness. I raised my moralistic eyebrow higher and more uncontrollably than The Bachelor&#8216;s notorious Tierra, whose eyebrow had its own Twitter handle. What made me so cranky was the inevitable rebound effect. Lots of [...]]]></description>
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