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		<title>Fatima and the Theology of the Body: Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher West</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Agca]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[May is a month that Catholics traditionally devote to honoring the Blessed Mother. One of my favorite Marian memorials falls in the middle of the month, May 13, when we honor Mary under her title &#8220;Our Lady of Fatima.&#8221; I’m&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Problem: Can the Government Help Us Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Is Traditional Marriage Toast?&#8221; That question recently caught my attention as the heading of an article in the neo-conservative Weekly Standard. The answer was either &#8220;very possibly&#8221; (a subhead attached to the piece) or &#8220;probably not&#8221; (an objective reading would&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Wants Us to Pay for Abortion-Causing Devices, Too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Mosher and Elizabeth Crnkovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obamacare’s so-called “contraceptive mandate” has been much in the news. But much of what the administration calls “contraception” is actually abortion.
Take the copper IUD, for example. It is advertised as a contraceptive device, but even the New York Times,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Running the Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cate Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston felt so personal.
There was a time when I loathed running. As a teenager, we were forced to run every day during off-season at school. The athletics girls were turned loose on the green belts behind our school, and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Court Decides: Little Girls Can Buy &#8220;Plan B&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://catholicexchange.com/the-court-decides-little-girls-can-buy-plan-b/</link>
		<comments>http://catholicexchange.com/the-court-decides-little-girls-can-buy-plan-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another chapter in the convoluted history of Plan B in the United States: a federal judge has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration to make the &#8220;morning after&#8221; pill available to girls under 17 without a prescription.
It is&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Undoing Our Addictions During Lent</title>
		<link>http://catholicexchange.com/lent-the-teacher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Babbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I weigh less now, at 29 years old, than I did in 7th grade, when my nickname was “Sarah the Whale”. My weight has been a battle for most of my life. I was a cute, chubby kid when I&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>How to Keep a Good Lent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Ryan N.S. Topping</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beauty of ritual is that it breaks up the monotony of change.  Every year it’s the same question: what are you giving up for Lent? Around Ash Wednesday, in pious circles at least, fasting ideas are traded like baseball&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>This Sunday&#8217;s Gospel : The Transfiguration and the Cross</title>
		<link>http://catholicexchange.com/this-sundays-gospel-the-transfiguration-and-the-cross/</link>
		<comments>http://catholicexchange.com/this-sundays-gospel-the-transfiguration-and-the-cross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appearances can be deceiving.  After all, Jesus was just another Galilean.  His hands were the rough hands of a workman.  People in Nazareth knew his mother.  Some even remembered the man they thought was his dad.
Yet when Jesus went&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Million to be Thrown Off Health Plans</title>
		<link>http://catholicexchange.com/seven-million-to-be-thrown-off-health-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://catholicexchange.com/seven-million-to-be-thrown-off-health-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Koffler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when Obama promised that under his health scheme you could keep your health insurance and your doctor?

Well forget it. You can’t necessarily keep your insurance or your doctor. Period.
The Congressional Budget Office now says that, because of&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Better Living Through Chemistry?</title>
		<link>http://catholicexchange.com/better-living-through-chemistry/</link>
		<comments>http://catholicexchange.com/better-living-through-chemistry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What a wonderful world,&#8221; sang Louis Armstrong. But how can we make sure that as many people as possible follow in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale and Mahatma Gandhi, spreading empathy and fairness wherever they go?
One way that is&#8230;]]></description>
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