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		<title>The Faithful: FOX Retells Genesis Through Its Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By DeWayne Hamby FOX Entertainment Studios enters the biblical drama arena with its cinematic new series “The Faithful: The Women of the Bible,” which premiered with its first two episodes on March 22. The series, which was filmed in Rome and Matera, Italy, will air throughout the Easter and Passover season on FOX and the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gerwig’s Barbie Is Gender Revenge Porn, And It Breaks My (Liberal, Female) Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Sam Rader Greta Gerwig’s newest feminist film Barbie, produced by Mattel and co-written with her husband filmmaker Noah Baumbach, uplifts women while exalting the idiocrasy of men. Every male character in the film is portrayed as helpless and idiotic, from start to finish—all the Kens, the Mattel execs, even the man who plays America [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lunch with Bono and U2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m staring at a computer screen in my Colorado office one fine fall day in 2001 when the phone rings. “Hello, my name is Jack Heaslip,” says a voice with a foreign accent. “The boys in the band call me Father Jack, and I’m their chaplain.” He proceeds to tell me his role in helping [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book of Mormon Films Focus on Jesus as the Savior and Sole Source of Salvation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On June 17, 2022, the Motion Picture Studios of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held a Media Day—inviting the press to observe the kickoff of the filming of the fifth and final season of the “Book of Mormon Video Series.” The first three seasons of this series can be found on YouTube [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Introducing From Sin to Saint, A Podcast From Patheos</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/backstagepass/2022/05/introducing-from-sin-to-saint-a-podcast-from-patheos/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Saints are made, not born. They come from different faiths, homelands, and backgrounds to change the world for the better. We know these figures for the miracles they performed, the sacrifices they made, or the joy that they brought. But the transformations that turn ordinary people into saints are less well known. From Sin to Saint, the latest podcast from Pathos aims to change that. This series will explore the events and circumstances that transformed saints of all faiths from merely swimming in their cultural current to reshaping it for the better.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Everything Everywhere All at Once&#8221;: A Guidebook to the Power of Opening Our Hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 14:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Sam Rader (Spoiler Alert) Several weeks ago, I wrote a post on Instagram: “I want to create a new martial art. When one opponent can coax the other to stop fighting, through gestures of love and affection, both parties win.” The new existential sci-fi movie Everything Everywhere All at Once directed by the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Super Bowl LVI: The Catholic Roots of the NFL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Contributor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catholic football fans may not realize how much their fellow believers have been involved in the history and success of American football.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Are There Skeletons Buried in Catholic History?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patheos Editorial Team]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his new Patheos series, Reclaiming Catholicism, Franciscan Priest, Fr. Casey Cole, examines some of the less understood and frequently sensationalized parts of Catholic history.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tolkien&#8217;s Theological Speculations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By all accounts, a tiny fraction of those who have read or viewed The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings (LOTR) have been able to plow through The Silmarillion (Houghton Mifflin, 1977) assembled by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son, Christopher, after his father’s death.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Joker: A Christian Take</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How can religious faith help to stem the crisis of meaning in our world, a theme so vividly rendered in Joker?]]></description>
		
		
		
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