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	<title>Return to Rome</title>
	
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	<description>Francis J. Beckwith's Reflections on Faith, Ethics and Culture</description>
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		<title>Giving the Banquet Keynote Address at the 2013 Napa Institute Conference, August 1-4</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 13:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is truly an honor to announce that I will be giving the banquet keynote address at the 2013 Napa Institute Conference.  According to the website: The Third Annual Napa Institute Conference will take place from Thursday, August 1 – Sunday, August 4, 2013 at the Meritage Resort &#38; Spa in Napa, CA. In 2013, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Baylor University Scholar Francis Beckwith Will Speak at Vatican Educational Conference”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 17:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Baylor media communications: WACO, Texas (April 22, 2013) &#8212; Francis J. Beckwith, Ph.D., a professor of philosophy at Baylor University and Resident Scholar in Baylor&#8217;s Institute for Studies of Religion, will travel to Rome in mid-June to speak at The Celebration of Evangelium Vitae: Faithful to Life conference, sponsored by the Vatican&#8217;s Pontifical Council for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me v. Obama Shooting the Basketball? No Contest, Really.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President, on Easter Sunday at the White House: Me, two weeks ago in my backyard sports court. (My wife, Frankie, is making commentary) We&#8217;re roughly the same age. He was born in 1961, and I was born in 1960. He played high school basketball, and so did  I. Clearly, even then, I had better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day I met Edith Schaeffer (1914-2013), and the note she penned to me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 30, 2013, Edith Schaeffer died at the age of 98. Born on November 3, 1914, she was the widow of Francis A. Schaeffer.  (November 3 is my birthday as well).  In my book, Return to Rome: Confession of An Evangelical Catholic (Brazos Press, 2009), I tell of my encounter with Mrs. Schaeffer at a bookstore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sic ‘em Francis: Baylor Student’s Papal Translation Project</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2013/03/sic-em-francis-baylor-students-papal-translation-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our most gifted students at Baylor University, Emily Edmondson, has created a new blog, &#8220;The Papal Translation Project.&#8221;  Emily, who is bilingual, has taken it upon herself to publish some of Pope Francis&#8217; works, including some of his homilies as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Monsignor Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. Emily translated four of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Pruss’ One Body: An Essay on Christian Sexual Ethics – 30% off</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2013/03/alexander-pruss-one-body-an-essay-on-christian-sexual-ethics-30-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My esteemed colleague, Alexander Pruss, late last year published the book, One Body: An Essay on Christian Sexual Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012). I selected it as one of the best books I read in 2012.  If you have been looking for a philosophically sophisticated, though clearly written, presentation of Christian sexual ethics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Confirmation: A Letter to Darby Beckwith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. This is how it is introduced: What follows is a letter from the author to his 16-year-old niece Darby Beckwith. She recently asked him to be her Confirmation sponsor. In his book, Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic, he tells the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habemus Papam Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2013/03/habemus-papam-jorge-mario-bergoglio-pope-francis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<title>Habemus Papam Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (Pope Paul VI)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2013/03/habemus-papam-giovanni-battista-enrico-antonio-maria-montini-pope-paul-vi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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		<title>Habemus Papam Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (Pope Pius XII)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2013/03/habemus-papam-pope-pius-xii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Beckwith</dc:creator>
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