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		<title>Top Ten Saints for Advent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we embark upon the Advent season—the time when we celebrate Christ’s birth and look forward in hope and faith to His Second Coming—here are ten saints to accompany on your journey.
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1. Holy Mary, Mother of God: A&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dorothy Day on Road to Sainthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was a journalist, activist, and founder of a labor movement.
Now, she may become a saint.
This week, Dorothy Day’s cause for sainthood got a ringing endorsement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Day—the co-founder of the Catholic&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Meditations on the Incarnation from St. Leo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Leo the Great’s famous Tome is a classic that shines forth with a remarkable beauty and vibrant clarity all these centuries later. Below are some of the best excerpts which I offer to readers as material for morning meditations&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Why St. Leo Was ‘Great’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holding office in the late fifth century, Pope Leo I was the first to be called the “Great”—and for good reason. Pope Leo—whose feast day was celebrated last weekend—took on just about every major heresy of his time, established the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer to St. Thomas Aquinas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Thomas Aquinas is certainly one of the best known saints. But most of us, I imagine, think of him more as a figure from whom we can learn so much about the theology and philosophy of the Church. Usually,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Church’s Two New Doctors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, early last month, Pope Benedict XVI named two new doctors of the Church.
Both of them—John of Avila and St. Hildegard of Bingen—were already saints. And while there are hundreds, if not a thousand or&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Sainthood: Who Decides?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[God makes saints. The Church recognizes and professes His handiwork. But who exactly makes that decision?
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Other than the Pope himself, it’s an exhaustively complex process that involves the laity, local dioceses, and a whole array of top Vatican&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Canonization of Saints: Why Miracles Are Necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people know that a miracle is needed in order for someone to be decreed, or recognized, as a saint. But why exactly? The miracle actually is needed for two closely related yet distinct reasons. It first confirms that the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Saints 101: What is the Canonization Process?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often a news headline announces to the world that a holy man or woman has been declared a Servant of God or Venerable or Blessed—and are close to being a recognized as a saint. So which comes first?&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Saints 101: How Many Saints Are There?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Beale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s first begin by re-phrasing the question: How many holy men and woman are recognized by the Catholic Church as saints? Because the answer to the first cannot really be known—the Catholic Church makes no claims that its list of&#8230;]]></description>
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