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	<title>Busted Halo &#187; Rachel Bundang</title>
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		<title>How do cultural innovations within the church start?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Catholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural innovations in catholicism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  I was in Africa and saw a bunch of priests and parishioners dancing and the offertory procession went on for a much longer time.  While beautiful it seemed to be much different than my experience of church in the US, Canada, and most of Europe and even Latin America.  Can you tell me how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Tell Me About the Traditional Seven Fish Christmas Dinner?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/on-the-traditional-seven-fish-christmas-dinner</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3 wise men]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[christmas day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fish feast]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[southern italy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The custom of eating fish for Christmas is more a practice in certain ethnic communities rather than a mandate by the Catholic Church. The roots for the particular instance you mention lie in southern Italy-some say Sicily, others say Naples, and yet others say it goes from Rome on down, especially in the coastal towns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do women no longer have to have their head covered while at mass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[head covering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vatican ii]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[veil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Why do women no longer have to have their head covered while at mass?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do women no longer have to have their head covered while at mass?  And why do some still do it? There has long been a practice of women covering their heads in public, and especially in holy places, across religious traditions.  Paul makes note of it in 1 Cor 11:4-16.  Drawing upon this, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I teach religion in a secular college and have been asked to teach a course on Catholicism.  What should I cover over the course of the semester?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/i-teach-religion-in-a-secular-college-and-have-been-asked-to-teach-a-course-on-catholicism-what-should-i-cover-over-the-course-of-the-semester</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[academics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholicism on a secular college campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[course syllabus on Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secular colleges and religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching theology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach religion in a secular college and have been asked to teach a course on Catholicism.  I&#8217;m obviously somewhat limited here so what should I cover over the course of the semester? Catholicism itself could cover hundreds of courses.  But, that being said, I understand that a secular setting might not be the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When did statues of saints start appearing in Catholic churches, and how is this not idol worship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[idol worship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idolatry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intercession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saints]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christianity emerged from Judaism, which itself rejected figurative religious art as being too much like idol worship (see Ex 20:3).  But once Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire under Constantine in the 4th century CE, it was not long before Roman practices of portraying and honoring the divine (their gods and emperors) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have to be a certain race in order to convert to Catholicism?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/do-you-have-to-be-a-certain-race-in-order-to-convert-to-catholicism</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/do-you-have-to-be-a-certain-race-in-order-to-convert-to-catholicism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african american catholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are there black Catholics?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race and Catholicism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  I am an African-American, and I was wondering whether it matters what race you are in order to be Catholic. Do you have to be a certain race in order to convert to Catholicism? Absolutely anyone may become a Catholic convert!  I am sure you have heard of the apostle Paul’s take on this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To help pay for college, I started a web cam site where I only touch myself. Is that wrong and if so, why? It’s my body, you know!</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/college_webcams_for_money</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/college_webcams_for_money#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[near occasion of sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objectification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pornography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While your self-sufficiency and resourcefulness are admirable, starting your own porn site is problematic, even with limits.  Before your body was yours, it was God’s creation. Putting yourself out there in sexually suggestive ways compromises your inherent human dignity and dishonors the good intent behind sex.  Moreover, you pose a temptation to others—a &#8220;near occasion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Santeria?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-santeria</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-santeria#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[santeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question: Can you tell me a bit about &#8220;Santa Ria&#8221;?  What are its origins and does it have anything to do with the Catholic church? Santería, also known as Lukumi, is an Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion, meaning that it combines multiple different forms of belief or practice. “Santería” itself means “way of the saints,” and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m a reporter and I&#8217;ve gotten a hold of pictures and a story of a famous person which will undoubtedly be a major piece of news but will also ruin the person&#8217;s career.  I&#8217;m torn&#8211;how would the church help me decide whether or not to go with the story?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/i%e2%80%99m-a-reporter-and-ive-gotten-a-hold-of-pictures-and-a-story-of-a-famous-person-which-will-undoubtedly-be-a-major-piece-of-news-but-will-also-ruin-the-persons-career-im-torn-how-would</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/i%e2%80%99m-a-reporter-and-ive-gotten-a-hold-of-pictures-and-a-story-of-a-famous-person-which-will-undoubtedly-be-a-major-piece-of-news-but-will-also-ruin-the-persons-career-im-torn-how-would#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethical questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethical reporting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the most idealistic sense, a reporter investigates and writes stories that are in the public interest.  But what is that interest, really?  Does it foster civic engagement and bolster the common good, or is it for idle entertainment? Ethicists distinguish between goodness and rightness in making moral decisions, and the Church emphasizes the importance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I send text messages constantly and expect a prompt response back from anyone I send a message to. When he or she doesn’t respond I just think it’s rude. What does God think about those people?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/text_message_responses</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ettiquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quick response to text]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responding to text messages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[text messaging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is more of a question of etiquette and personal taste than of religion or ethics!  Some people are more tethered to their techno-gadgets than others.  Some don’t want to be reachable every single moment.  And some are just unable to respond right away; maybe they’re actually busy, or on a plane, or in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does God think of America bailing out CEOs and companies that CAUSED the financial crisis?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-does-god-think-of-america-bailing-out-ceos-and-companies-that-caused-the-financial-crisis</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-does-god-think-of-america-bailing-out-ceos-and-companies-that-caused-the-financial-crisis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout of CEO's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What does God think of the bailout?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not being God, it would be really arrogant to claim to know God’s mind.  That being said, we’re taught by the church that love of neighbor—even in difficult circumstances—is fundamental to community.  Those responsible for the crisis opted for love of self, whether out of greed or laziness.  They prized profit so much that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I severely underpaid for the condo I got at a foreclosure auction. It was a great steal but as soon as I walked through the door I saw some of the possessions of the family of five who once lived there. Is it wrong for me to profit from their pain?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/are_buying_foreclosures_ethical</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/are_buying_foreclosures_ethical#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Are buying foreclosures ethical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buying a home cheaply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socio-economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The premise of a foreclosure auction is that you’re looking to purchase a home cheaply.  You get the low price due to the property repossessed for default then being resold to recoup whatever possible from the lender’s losses.  On one hand, you’re exercising good stewardship of your own resources.  On the other, the family moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Brain Drain</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-brain-drain</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-brain-drain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christian traditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divinity school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[langston hughes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership roles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixed emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women friends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly six years to the day that I received my first theology degree, I was back in Boston at an ordination (see box below). I was at the Episcopal cathedral, not the Catholic one. Jen, a former roommate, asked me and two other women friends from divinity school—a Jew-nitarian (and Wicca-friendly) minister and an Episco-Lutheran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Cool for School</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/too-cool-for-school</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/too-cool-for-school#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2003 19:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[better luck tomorrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brick in the wall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[companion piece]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parry shen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this film, it&#8217;s tempting, oh-so-tempting, to make the expected references to classic rock songs: &#8220;The Kids Are Alright.&#8221; &#8220;Teenage Wasteland.&#8221; &#8220;Another Brick in the Wall.&#8221; But that&#8217;s not the world that spawned the kids of Justin Lin&#8217;s Better Luck Tomorrow . Set in the upper-middle class gated community suburbs of Orange County, the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Party&#8217;s Over</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/when-the-partys-over</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/when-the-partys-over#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[easter morning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inkling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesus resurrection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[night of fear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I regularly check into a community discussion board called craigslist. On the morning that Baghdad fell, almost as if staged for the world&#8217;s all-seeing cameras, someone posted a message entitled &#8220;Wake up slacker, and watch history!&#8221; There&#8217;s a way in which these Easter morning readings can make us laugh in a similar nervous bemusement as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When, oh, when did online dating lose its stigma? When did it become the province of sexy nerds and closet punks, as well as the schlubs and the hipper-than-thou among us? Who knows? Who cares? One thing, though, that online dating has spawned is worth celebrating: the social guinea pig—someone willing to risk humiliation, rejection, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Baby-Naming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART 1: THE HIRED GUN &#8220;Can you imagine us doing this in a church?&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t eavesdropping, but I did overhear Mina, the young mother, say so to one of her friends during the reception. &#8220;There&#8217;s just no way we would ever have felt comfortable. We are so not church people.&#8221; (Names have been changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standard Party Foods</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2002 20:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is November, and I am barreling headlong into the end of the year. But first, I have to make it past the Thanksgiving table. Growing up working-class and Filipino here in the U.S., Thanksgiving has never felt to me like a real holiday. Or rather, it has never as big a deal to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Word Was Made Fresh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Bundang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a good deed? What&#8217;s the point of trying to be good in a world that&#8217;s clearly a mess? And how do you even begin to do that? These are the themes that pc muñoz and the amen corner tackle in this, their third CD. This San Francisco-based music collective cook up a provocative—if [...]]]></description>
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