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	<title>Busted Halo &#187; Richard G. Malloy, SJ</title>
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		<title>Should I have my kids only receive gifts for a charity this Christmas or would that be against our tradition?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[gifts at Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Should I have my kids only receive gifts for a charity this Christmas or would that be against our tradition?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question: Should I have my kids only receive gifts for a charity this Christmas or would that be against our tradition?  We&#8217;re pretty well off but I understand that we really should exchange some kind of gift during the Christmas season? We live in convoluted and confusing times.  Before the present economic crisis, people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If a married couple are not able to conceive, is it a sin for them to continue having relations?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[infertility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[married love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[married sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex in marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What does the church teach about infertile couples?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), clearly states there are at least “two meanings of the conjugal act: the unitive meaning and the procreative meaning” (HV #12).  Certainly a husband and wife who cannot conceive a child are called to continue to express their love for one another (the unitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are some tips to help strengthen my spirituality during my volunteer service year that you&#8217;d recommend?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-are-some-tips-to-help-strengthen-my-spirituality-during-my-volunteer-service-year-that-youd-recommend</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual tips for volunteers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volunteer year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Read Bustedhalo.com daily! =) And read some of the classic reflections on faith and service like Thomas Merton’s letter to a young activist or the “Oscar Romero” prayer (which actually was penned by Bishop Ken Utener. Read about the great ones: Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Read good contemporary spiritual writers: John Dear, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are there any Bishops from Africa that might become Pope?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/are-there-any-bishops-from-africa-that-might-become-pope</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/are-there-any-bishops-from-africa-that-might-become-pope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papabile Bishops]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The answer to this question is a bit above my pay grade. As a Jesuit, I’m not in the loop of the diocesan priests’ world. They better know who is moving up the ladder of ecclesiastical offices. The priests who study in Rome seem to get to know one another and they would have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are statues of saints not considered graven images?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/why-are-statues-of-saints-not-considered-graven-images</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[graven images]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The simple answer is that statues of saints remind us of the saint and their heroic efforts on behalf of the people of God and the spreading of the Gospel Good News so needed in every age. We gaze upon and ponder statues and pray to become like the great witnesses to God’s love and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should people wear black to Catholic funerals?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/should-people-wear-black-to-catholic-funerals</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/should-people-wear-black-to-catholic-funerals#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funeral Attire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Symbols matter and communicate. What we wear “says” something. One would not show up at a Philadelphia Eagles game in a NY Giants jersey and expect to go unnoticed. A man who takes off his wedding ring before going on a business trip to Las Vegas would be questioned closely by his wife. Funerals are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who was St Peter Claver?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[human trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Spain in 1580, Peter Claver, a bright student, entered the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and spent most of his life serving the slaves in Cartagena. From 1610 until his death he reached out to those captured by slave traders and brought to the new world. A third of the imprisoned Africans died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Canisius College named after?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canisius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Peter Canisius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[St. Peter Canisius, a Dutchman known as the second apostle of Germany, was a 16th century Jesuit in the forefront of the effort to respond to the critiques of the Catholic church being made by protestant reformers in Germany, Switzerland and other parts of Europe. His pastoral strategies were built on the Jesuit idea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who was St. Edmund Campion?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/who-was-st-edmund-campion</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[jesuits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Edmund Campion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[St. Edmund Campion was born in 1540 and rose to great political, ecclesiastical and academic prominence in Elizabethan England. The Queen (the daughter of Henry VIII) and others recognized Campion’s talents and many spoke of him as a future Archbishop of Canterbury in the young Anglican church. To be a Roman Catholic in Elizabethan England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a mandatum and should my professor have one to teach theology at the State University I attend?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-a-mandatum-and-should-my-professor-have-one-to-teach-theology-at-the-state-university-i-attend</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mandatum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“The mandatum is fundamentally an acknowledgment by Church authority that a Catholic professor of a theological discipline is a teacher within the full communion of the Catholic Church” (http://www.usccb.org/bishops/guidelines.shtml ). The mandatum is a relational reality between a Bishop and a Catholic person teaching Catholic theology within the diocese. A Catholic teaching Buddhism, or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do I say to people who say that the Catholic Church is filled with hypocrites?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-do-i-say-to-people-who-say-that-the-catholic-church-is-filled-with-hypocrites</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tell them the church is a hospital for sinners, not a showcase for saints. The transformation that begins at our Baptism is, for most of us, an affair of one step forward, three steps sideways, two steps back, and two steps forward. The human condition is characterized by original sin, the truth that things are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Deacons remarry if their wife dies?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/can-deacons-remarry-if-their-wife-dies</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deaons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[priesthood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer is “No.” And many people wonder why. I have met many men who would gladly serve as deacons, but they cannot promise to remain unmarried if their wife should die. Most cogently say, “How could I deny my children a women who would love them as their mother did if she died? They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is phone sex with my wife sinful?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-phone-sex-with-my-wife-sinful</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-phone-sex-with-my-wife-sinful#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[married]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phone sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question: I have had to be away from my wife of ten years and our children for several weeks as I am taking a Christian course but my sexual urge is driving me &#8220;crazy&#8221; now. It&#8217;s almost all I think about and I am not happy about that.  I need to focus on other things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is kissing with passion a mortal sin?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-kissing-with-passion-a-mortal-sin</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-kissing-with-passion-a-mortal-sin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kissing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Hayes, one of the editors at Bustedhalo® opined in response to this question, “I think kissing WITHOUT passion might be a sin.” Mortal sin is “deadly sin,” sin that separates us from the community and God on a deep and real level. To persist in mortal sin, knowingly and will full intention of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does the Catholic Church teach about intimacy &amp; dating? What is allowed- i.e. where should the line be drawn?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-does-the-catholic-church-teach-about-intimacy-dating-what-is-allowed-i-e-where-should-the-line-be-drawn</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-does-the-catholic-church-teach-about-intimacy-dating-what-is-allowed-i-e-where-should-the-line-be-drawn#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[catholic church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual intimacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Church is very clear. Full, complete, genital sexual activity is reserved for those in the sacramental covenant of marriage. Let me gently challenge the “where should the line be drawn” type questions. Love is not a reality that is measured and molded by rigid rules. The reality of love, God’s very self, is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does mass &#8220;count&#8221; if we didn&#8217;t say the Gloria or Creed on Sunday?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/does-mass-count-if-we-didnt-say-the-gloria-or-creed-on-sunday</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/does-mass-count-if-we-didnt-say-the-gloria-or-creed-on-sunday#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gloria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The simple answer is “Yes.” The priest may just have forgotten to lead the community in the prayer or may have a good pastoral reason for omitting it (e.g., a baptism during Mass, time constraints, etc.) Could I also gently challenge the questioner? Where do these “does it count” questions come from? What spirit elicits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When something horrible happens, is that part of God&#8217;s plan for me?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/when-something-horrible-happens-is-that-part-of-gods-plan-for-me</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/when-something-horrible-happens-is-that-part-of-gods-plan-for-me#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[God's plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[God does not desire that we suffer. God realizes that creation has gone horribly wrong (that’s what the book of Genesis gets at poetically). God’s plan is to respond with the power of Divine redemptive and healing love to the ways in which creation has gone awry. God’s love is the transformative power of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you tell me some basics of Church Architecture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Churches in the round]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing I know for certain is that a rule of architecture says that “form follows function.” And therefore, we have a bit of a clash in post Vatican II Church Architecture. We have older churches with high ceilings and long aisles with pews lined up in parallel rows. This emphasized the transcendent nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are there good training methods for lectors that you can recommend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lector tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Read the reading beforehand. Read it again. And again. Ask the priest or someone how to pronounce a word of which you are unsure. Read notes about the readings. Get a sense of what you are proclaiming. 2. Realize you are proclaiming the Word. Be expressive (but not histrionic). Don’t rush. But don’t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the symbolism behind the priest&#8217;s stole and is there any difference in a deacon&#8217;s stole?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deacon vestments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The priest’s stole is worn around the neck, like a yoke. The deacon’s stole is slung across one shoulder and the opposite hip. The stole is a “sign” or “badge” of office. The liturgical vestments (alb, stoles, chasubles) indicate the positions of service to the community provided by bishops, priests and deacons. Many cultural realities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I get a Catholic hospital chaplain to visit my father in the hospital?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/questionbox/ow-do-i-get-a-catholic-hospital-chaplain-to-visit-my-father-in-the-hospital</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ow do I get a Catholic hospital chaplain to visit my father in the hospital?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question: How do I get a Catholic hospital chaplain to visit my father in the hospital?  With the Hippa laws, they don&#8217;t send them over anymore. Very easy. Every hospital I have ever been in has a pastoral care dept. or chaplains’ office. Ask your nurse for the number. Call them and tell them you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do I do when a priest does something at mass that I don&#8217;t like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, ask yourself who died and left you in charge of making such judgments of taste? Remember the old Latin phrase, &#8220;de gustibus non disputatem est&#8221; (there’s no accounting for taste). I would bet $100 that what you “don’t like” someone else in the congregation “does like.” A story: One lady got mad at me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you tell me some Catholic sites that I can visit in the United States that are fun to go to?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Auriesville]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catholic pilgrimage sites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[El Santuario de Chimayo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s an old Latin phrase, de gustibus non disputatem est (“there’s no accounting for taste”). Personally, I think visiting Cathedrals is always interesting. From The National Shrine in Washington, DC, to the Western flavor of the Cathedral in Salt Lake City to the flow of humanity I’ve observed in Cathedrals from Philadelphia to Seattle, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What are the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are the methods of prayer and ways of relating to God that Ignatius of Loyola developed in the years after his conversion to Christ. Ignatius realized God loves us and wants to deal personally with each of us. One way to let God be God in our lives is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do I get the Pope to recognize my grandparents&#8217; 50th wedding anniversary with a papal blessing sheepskin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call your local parish and get the number for the chancery (the main office of the Bishop of diocese). The folks at your local chancery will be happy to help you with this request. Judy Grant, the ever capable and friendly parish administrator at St. Anthony’s Parish in Cody WY (where I’m based while I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God and the World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle : HP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Copa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seeing God]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[soccer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[super bowl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, the World Cup intimates something of what God is and can be for us. The principle guiding our getting together and enjoying life. The meaning of our days. The joy of our victories and our consoler in defeat. If, as St. Ignatius taught, we should seek God in all things and God wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the #1 misconception about being a priest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[What’s the #1 misconception about being a priest?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That priests are somehow “different.” I’ve often been told, “I can’t believe you’re a priest.” I don’t know if that says something about me, or the priests they have met. One of the nicest compliments I ever received was when I was told, “You’re cool. You’re not what I expected a priest to be like. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the difference between a mortal and a venial sin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortal sin is deadly sin, those freely chosen acts and dispositions that make the reality of God’s grace (i.e., his love and power) dry up in us. God can no longer relate to us because our sins have pushed God out of our lives. Pride, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Greed, Envy, Sloth, freely chosen and acted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you give me suggestions about being better able to listen to God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[centering prayer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word God speaks to us is our life. Sit quietly and ask yourself the following question: What really fills me with joy and passion? God is speaking there. We can think about this in a number of ways. Who do you really love and who loves you? God is in those relationships, communicating who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is transubstantiation not considered canibalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 04:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[are Catholics canibals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quick answer is that bread and wine during the Eucharist are not transformed into the flesh and blood of Jesus of Nazareth, but the glorified reality of the risen Christ. The sacramental signs of bread and wine are substantially (trans-substantiation), by the mysterious power of the Holy Spirit, become Christ present to us and [...]]]></description>
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