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		<title>St. John Henry Newman and the “Special Charm of Christmas”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I grew up in the pre-internet age, so I still have a sense of awe every time I turn on a computer. Yesterday morning, for example, I was looking at a great website devoted to the works of St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), whom Pope Francis recently canonized. For the first time, I read through [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Catholics and Race in 2020: A Church Historian&#8217;s Reflection</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat McNamara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 23:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Are We There Yet?” Over the past week, we’ve looked at some painful history. While it has at times been hard to address, as a Church, we’ve definitely come a long way. Still, as one of my college professors used to say, “We’re not there yet.”  We know the hierarchy got it wrong with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“It’s About Time They Got Here”:  Catholics and the Civil Rights Movement </title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2020 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charity Not Enough  Today we focus on a brighter spot in American Catholic history: the Church and the Civil Rights Movement. Many Catholics were late to the movement, while some were early. By the time Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was organizing marches nationwide, it was clear to Catholics that individual charity, though admirable, didn’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Struggle for an African American Priesthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The Dignity of the Priesthood”  In a sermon on  “The True Priesthood,” delivered at Brooklyn’s St. Ambrose Church in May 1886, Father Daniel Sheehy declared to his parishioners: What a dignity, the priesthood! Its duties are great. They are commissioned to lead the people to victory. Yours, too, is a duty. They are commanded to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A House Divided: The American Bishops and the Civil War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Hierarchy Divided  As we mentioned earlier, some mainline Protestant Churches formally divided over the slavery issue. Although the Catholic Church did not formally do so, they did side with the prevailing outlook North or South. This was done less out of principle than from fear of inciting local anti-Catholic sentiment by going against the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Convents White and Black</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat McNamara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 11:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[African-American Catholics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[American Sisters and Social Justice Many today are familiar with the photos of American women religious marching during the Civil Rights Movement. Catholic Sisters have advocated for social justice at every level– Sisters Simone Campbell, Sister Helen Prejean— as well as the martyrs Sisters Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, and Dorothy Stang. Until her early death [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Catholics and the 1619 Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  American Catholics and Slavery Throughout the centuries leading up to Emancipation, many slaveholders were Catholics. After the Jesuits landed in Maryland in 1634, they acquired land. And in the early 1700’s, they took on recently arrived African slaves to work the land. The idea was that the plantations would finance local Jesuit ministries.     They [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>White American Catholics and Race: A Church Historian’s Reflection  (Part One) </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Race in American Life When you look at English history, most scholars would agree that class is the defining issue. (Maybe that’s why TV series like Downton Abbey have been so popular.) But in America, professional historians concur that the key factor is race: slavery and Civil War, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, the Civil Rights [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Week in America: What Would St. Francis Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 11:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Drawing in the Middle of the Night Last night, I had trouble sleeping, which I normally don’t. For some reason, I felt compelled, perhaps inspired, to do a drawing from a movie I had recently watched. Now, I realize, that drawing  has got much to do with what’s been going on in America this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>John Wayne and the Catholic Church</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 11:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholics in the Movies]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Wayne and the Catholics For me today is a big “OTD” moment. That’s because, in 1907, my favorite actor, Marion Robert Morrison, was born in Winterset, Iowa. Known to the world as John Wayne, he’s also one of my favorite Catholic converts.  Raised Protestant, Wayne frequently referred to himself as a “Presbygoddamnterian.” But throughout [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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