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		<title>I Heart iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 29th marks the feast day dedicated to the founders of the church of Rome: Saints Peter and Paul. The observance is an ancient one, but this year it coincides with a religious festival of a more modern sort. For the believers of this other faith, it&#8217;s the day of deliverance they have long awaited, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 19:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid news of the Rev. Jerry Falwell&#8217;s death earlier this week, the coverage was predictable. Conservatives who benefited from the pioneering televangelist&#8217;s forays into politics praised his stances and lamented his departure from the stage, while liberals took it upon themselves to assume the same role of unrelenting judge that they found so abhorrent when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the Paulist Fathers &#8212;you know, the people who run this fine website&#8212;were the beneficiaries one of the more unusual product placements in recent memory when the Paulist-founded Humanitas Prize, was showcased on The Sopranos&#8230;right before it was used to bash someone&#8217;s head in. To quote its network&#8217;s old slogan, &#8220;It&#8217;s not TV. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can feel it in the air&#8212;the mad rush on Tiffany&#8217;s, restaurants booked-up for prix fixe dinners, store shelves cleared of teddy bears, chocolate and flowers. (And if you&#8217;re waiting until now to pick up any of these, good luck.) Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8212;&#8221;Lovers&#8217; Day,&#8221; as it&#8217;s called in the Romance languages&#8212;is right around the corner. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The world is all messed up, the nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion all around.&#8221; As the scourges of a never-ending war continue to dominate our national debate, division trumps common ground in the public square, and our leaders play political games while the marginalized continue to suffer in society&#8217;s shadows, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really know what I want for Christmas. Sure, I want to have my Christmas cards done by my traditional (but never-heeded) deadline of December 10th. I&#8217;d like to be able to wave my hand and find my bedroom and office&#8212; which, as always, look as if they&#8217;ve been bomb-struck&#8212;looking somewhat sane. And, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time, Rice&#8217;s much-anticipated second album was still in production. Ironically, last week, while spending time with high priests of a different sort, Rice&#8217;s new album, 9, was released. I got my first impressions of it while heading to a Baltimore hotel to attend the annual November meeting of the US Conference of Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often show it, but I&#8217;m a bit of a political animal. In college, I majored in political science with a primary concentration in American politics alongside an independent study of the internal machinery of the church. For a long time, campaign season meant high-gear; I worked on races at all levels and on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The save-the-date cards are rolling in with a frequency usually reserved for bills (this weekend, I&#8217;ll be at the third family wedding of the year). Many of my friends are excitedly hinting at engagements and the rest of them have something to show for their many nights spent out on the &#8220;scouting tour.&#8221; A priest-friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first, clicking onto Fr. Bob Lubic&#8217;s website seems like a relatively conventional Catholic experience in the internet age. The sublime sound of Gregorian chant wafts from the computer and a photo of the Western Pennsylvania priest clad in Mass vestments fills the screen. But then, out of nowhere, the sound of a scratching record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As time goes on, and this column keeps evolving, I&#8217;ve found something interesting. For once, I hope I&#8217;m wrong on this one but, just in case, let me clue you in on what I&#8217;ve been thinking. &#8220;Almost Holy&#8221; was conceived as a bridge between the ad extra (outside the church) audience of &#8220;spiritual seekers&#8221; for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wasn&#8217;t blessed with enough talent to be one, I&#8217;ve always kept a special place in my heart for musicians. It&#8217;s part envy, of course&#8212;a friend lent me his guitar for three years, at the end of which I still couldn&#8217;t play &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; &#8212;but also great admiration for the way a song can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August may be behind us now, but last month offered two milestones we&#8217;d be smart to pay attention to. A month ago today, MTV marked its 25th anniversary, while just a few weeks back was the one year anniversary of Pope Benedict&#8217;s first foreign visit&#8212;to his native Germany, where he presided at World Youth Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to Rocco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic Suicide Dear Rocco, I will always read your impressive work, a gift handed down to you by no one other than God. I also felt unease about the women&#8217;s ordinations on the river in Pittsburgh, because they cannot be done in the style and &#8220;tradition&#8221; of our church. You could create beautiful paragraphs on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who follow Catholic news might have heard about a ceremony last week in Pittsburgh. It took place in a boat, on a river&#8230; with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Forgive the Beatles&#8217; allusion, but the intended purpose of the exercise was about as trippy as Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds: twelve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become a defining trait of my journey that much of it is spent in the &#8220;bridge and tunnel&#8221; traffic of crossing parallel universes. As it keeps things fresh and diverse&#8212;and keeps me learning and open as a result&#8212;I&#8217;m convinced that it&#8217;s good for the soul, and I wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, wending my way through North Jersey for a holiday barbeque at my cousin&#8217;s house, I indulged yet again in one of my exceptionally odd habits and pulled up a moment-specific set of music on my iPod. I know I&#8217;m not alone in this. Case in point: the continued obsession with Bon Jovi among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost Holy: Confessions of a Bad Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocco Palmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it&#8217;s a good mantra of the Christian journey, here&#8217;s to new beginnings. With its daily focus on the arcana of all things Vatican and what happens behind the sacristy doors, some of you who know the chaos that is &#8220;Whispers in the Loggia&#8221; might&#8217;ve thought that its humble author was a jaded, seen-it-all-before type [...]]]></description>
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