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		<title>Spiritual but not religious &#8212; Not so fast!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody seems to be spiritual these days — from your college roommate, to the person in the office cubicle next to yours, to every other celebrity interviewed. But if &#8220;spiritual&#8221; is fashionable, &#8220;religious&#8221; is unfashionable. This is usually expressed as follow: &#8220;I&#8217;m spiritual but just not religious.&#8221; It&#8217;s even referred to by the acronym SBNR. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the Vatican&#8217;s acceptance of Anglican priests mean for Catholics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note:  For an answer this week, BustedHalo® turns to America Magazine and Fr. James Martin for his take on Anglicans and Catholics:]]></description>
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		<title>I heard Mary’s parents are saints. If that is true, why? They weren’t the ones carrying the Lord to full term.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They might not have been the ones carrying Jesus to full term but Catholic belief is that Joachim and Anne&#8211;the traditional names given to Mary&#8217;s parents&#8211;were holy people in their right.  (They are, by the way, the patron saints of grandparents.)   We don&#8217;t know much about them, if anything at all, other than they must have been devout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Hell is Purgatory?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;None of us are perfect but all of us are on a journey toward God&#8221; is one of the ways we use to explain what the name Busted Halo® means. Given our name it is no surprise that people often ask us: &#8220;Since I&#8217;m not perfect, how can I get into heaven?&#8221; Heaven is defined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 11, 1858, Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes ( January 7, 1844 &#8211; April 16, 1879) was gathering firewood when she had a vision of the Virgin Mary in a grotto near town. This was her first of 18 visions. The miraculous healing power of Lourdes water, from a spring in the grotto, led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faithful Departed—Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, who died at 90 on December 12, was the scion of a legendary family (his father, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary of State); one of the most famous American converts to Catholicism (his conversion came after reading philosophy at Harvard and then, memorably, spying a tree in springtime bloom); and widely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel According to Philip Seymour Hoffman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the much-anticipated release of Doubt, Philip Seymour Hoffman is once again receiving the kind of critical kudos reserved for actors who are generally tagged as the &#8216;best of their generation.&#8217; His portrayal of Fr. Flynn, in John Patrick Shanley&#8217;s film version of his Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play, has already garnered Hoffman a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Belly of a Paradox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago today, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history, stepped out of a bathroom shower during a visit to Bangkok. Slipping on the wet floor, he grabbed a poorly wired fan for support and was electrocuted. For many years, Merton had unsuccessfully sought permission from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saints and All Hallows Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, talks about the connection between Halloween (October 31) and All Saints Day (November 1). Fr. Martin answers FAQs such as: How saints get made? What is a patron saint? Is praying to the saints considered idolatry? In addition he discusses the lives of three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Nun’s Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of August, an Italian priest was forced to scuttle his plans for an online beauty pageant for nuns, because it had been, in his words, “deliberately misinterpreted.” Father Antonio Rungi, from a town near Naples, noted that he had already received numerous requests from nuns to take part in his “Sister Italia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End-of-Summer Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uh oh. Summer’s almost over and you haven’t finished Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain like you said were going to? Haven’t gotten around to The Duty of Delight, Dorothy Day’s journals? Never made it through Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth? Don’t be too hard on yourself. Those are all great books, but they’re kind of…long. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoopi Goldberg is a great comedian. So is Joy Behar. But, as it turns out, they&#8217;re not great theologians. On the daytime talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; this past Wednesday, the conversation turned, somewhat improbably, to the saints. What happened next would burn up the wires of the Catholic blogosphere for the next few days. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Are Y&#8217;havin&#8217; a Laff?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Millman is the patron saint of resentment. The perpetually put-upon actor has love handles but no love life, recently landed a role in a sitcom that has been generously described as a &#8220;sh*tcom,&#8221; and retains the professional services of the worst talent agent in the United Kingdom. Yet in the hands of Ricky Gervais, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Faithful Departed: Mary Luke Tobin, SL (1908-2006)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 24, in the motherhouse of the Sisters of Loretto, in Nerinx, Kentucky, one of the towering leaders of the Catholic church died. She was 98. Though Mary Luke Tobin, S.L., led a life described by superlatives, she may best be remembered as one of only 15 women, and the only American woman, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying with the Saints</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was very young, I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a statue of Saint Jude. I can&#8217;t begin to imagine which magazine this might have been, since my parents weren&#8217;t in the habit of leaving Catholic publications lying around the house, but, apparently, the photo of the statue was sufficiently appealing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Tales from the Pews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you believe that a priest actually preached about the dangers of contraception to a group of nursing home residents? Not long ago a member of my Jesuit community recalled that back in the 1960s, he and his pals initiated an informal survey designed to answer the following question: What was the worst homily or [...]]]></description>
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