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		<title>Facing the Real World Challenges of Substance Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth A. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah had hit rock bottom. She was 31 years old and had been charged with her second DUI. A mother of two and engaged to be married, she was separated from her family and spent 20 days in jail before entering treatment. “I went into treatment May 31, 2011,” Sarah said. “I was thinking of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Works: Pentecost and Boldness in the Holy Spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Fox Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of Acts 2 reads like a breathless passage from a Hollywood screenplay: When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Like so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwrap the Gifts of the Spirit this Pentecost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Otto</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[awe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear of god]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gifts of the holy spirit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Pentecost Sunday, God breathed the Holy Spirit into the apostles to remind them that they were not alone. Jesus had died, risen from the dead, and ascended into heaven. Jesus&#8217; followers were afraid and unsure of their future. The Holy Spirit came to comfort them even though Jesus wasn’t there to physically comfort them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing Silence in a Loud World</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/embracing-silence-in-a-loud-world</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/embracing-silence-in-a-loud-world#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa Aljentera</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[#Silence2012]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[finding God in silence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Communications Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face it. We live in a loud world. Not the kind of loud that breaks the stillness of a bucolic spring day. This loudness emits upward through our iPhones and electronic tablets. It is the glowing screen showing off a friend’s party or Nicholas Kristoff’s Twitter feed announcing his latest column in The New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United in Praise: Living Out God’s Love With All Creation</title>
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		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/united-in-praise-living-out-gods-love-with-all-creation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine M. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book of Daniel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[St Angela of Foligno]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Easter is a liturgical time when we celebrate the Resurrection of the One who &#8220;makes all things new&#8221; and anticipate the descent of the Holy Spirit, through whom God creates and &#8220;renew[s] the face of the earth,&#8221; at Pentecost. While bodily resurrection and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit clearly impact the human person, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A CSA Is Like the Body of Christ</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/a-csa-like-the-body-of-christ</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/a-csa-like-the-body-of-christ#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nerissa Nields</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Supported Agriculture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18526</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. &#8212; 1 Corinthians 12:12 Farmers have a hard life. All that work, and a dry summer or a plague of locusts or a freak hailstorm destroys the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoying the Ride: Finding Freedom in an Uncertain Future</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/enjoying-the-ride-finding-freedom-in-an-uncertain-future</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/enjoying-the-ride-finding-freedom-in-an-uncertain-future#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Crisp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been stressed out. A full-blown, out-of-my-mind, can’t-think-straight stressed out. I’m 22 and one year out of college. People keep telling me that this is the best time of my life. I have no kids, no husband, and no real geographical constraints besides the fact that I have an unhealthy addiction to the sunny beaches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Works: Gossip</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-33-gossip</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-33-gossip#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Fox Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gossip seems like the main form of entertainment these days. We&#8217;re bombarded with the ups and downs, the personal embarrassments, of entertainers, politicians, and a whole swath of people on pseudo-reality shows whose only reason for fame seems to be self-promotion. People have always been attracted to lurid news. In the Middle Ages, instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformed in the Eucharist</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/transformed-in-the-eucharist</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/transformed-in-the-eucharist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sr. Bernadette Reis, fsp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[calling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discerning God's call]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eucharist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18281</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For many Catholics, the mystery involved with receiving Holy Communion remains a distant reality. The language that the Church uses to define the mystery of the Eucharist is heavily philosophic, thus making it perhaps even more difficult to understand. Yet, we cannot ignore the fact that the Eucharist is at the heart of the Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedictine Life in the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/benedictine-life-in-the-21st-century</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/benedictine-life-in-the-21st-century#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 07:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth A. Elliott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[benedictine order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Wisdom Monastery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[physical chores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Connection. It is something everyone desires and in today&#8217;s world it seems to happen 24/7 through the Internet and social media. But there are people who yearn for a different, deeper connection &#8212; with God, with nature, and with each other. Sara Jo Emmerich, a 30-year-old who lives in Washington, D.C., found that connection at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Evangelicals in the Voting Booth</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/young-evangelicals-in-the-voting-booth</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/young-evangelicals-in-the-voting-booth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 07:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcia Pally</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evangelicals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politically speaking, what&#8217;s up with young evangelicals? Evangelicals are 26 percent of the U.S. population, a quarter of them under 30, and, as the Pew Forum on Religion and Public life reports, &#8220;Not since 1972 has generation played such a significant role in voter preferences as it has in recent elections. Younger people have voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May is for Mary</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/may-is-for-mary</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/may-is-for-mary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 06:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Kennell Kim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first time my now husband came to lunch in my tiny studio apartment he looked with puzzled amusement at the statues and icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary that dotted my closet-sized dwelling and noted that I was “a very strange sort of Protestant.” Long before I became Catholic I loved Our Lady. Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Actual Real World Is Way More Dramatic than the Reality Series of the Same Name</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-actual-real-world-is-way-more-dramatic-than-the-reality-series-of-the-same-name</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-actual-real-world-is-way-more-dramatic-than-the-reality-series-of-the-same-name#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 06:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>José Martinez</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[college graduation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can still remember the feeling of numbness that hit me when I hung up the phone one afternoon last September. I’d been slated to go to Vietnam for six months with a friend of mine, and there were 12 days before we were scheduled to take off. Problem was, most of those six months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;How Do I Serve the Church as a Lay Person?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/how-do-i-serve-the-church-as-a-lay-person</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/how-do-i-serve-the-church-as-a-lay-person#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 06:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Otto</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For two and a half years I was a Jesuit, living religious life and experiencing what it was like to be part of the Church in more of a public capacity. I had many opportunities to serve people from all walks of life in different places. I had to get used to people calling me brother or father, though I was neither. It was kind of nice to be an “official” representative of the Catholic Church as a religious.]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Simple Steps for the Summer Before College</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/seven-simple-steps-for-the-summer-before-college</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/seven-simple-steps-for-the-summer-before-college#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Bradbury-Haehl</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[advice for college freshman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll be amazed at how quickly the time passes between graduation day and packing the car to leave for college. Make the most of the short weeks before you go with our seven steps below &#8212; pulled from our book, The Freshman Survival Guide &#8212; and enter to win a free copy for the high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacraments 101</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/sacraments-101-passthru</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/sacraments-101-passthru#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it&#8217;s a refresher course or an introduction, each of the &#8220;Sacraments 101&#8243; videos gives you the basics about some aspect of one of the sacraments of the Catholic Church &#8212; in just a few minutes!]]></description>
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		<title>What Works: Building Up Others</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-61-building-up-others</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-61-building-up-others#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Fox Rose</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In preparing to give a presentation on the structures of faith communities, I was just reading 1 Corinthians 12-14. You may, like me, be familiar with chapters 12 and 13 separately as two of the best-known passages from the Pauline letters. But I&#8217;d never put them together along with the following chapter. As a set, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus in the Delivery Room</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/jesus-in-the-delivery-room</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/jesus-in-the-delivery-room#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina Gebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love to talk about birth. A lot. I assume everyone wants to hear about birth, so at social gatherings, with people I&#8217;ve hardly met, I find myself telling birth stories, bodily fluids included. Half of the crowd listens politely before dismissing themselves to &#8220;get a refill&#8221; on a drink, often finding a more normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoration of the&#8230; Um&#8230; Er</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/adoration-of-the-um-er</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/adoration-of-the-um-er#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Turner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adoration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I came into the Catholic Church ten years ago, there were a number of things I was a bit unclear about, including: the Pope, the Council of Trent, when exactly to kneel with everyone else so that I did not stick out like a foolish person with no wit, and &#8212; Eucharistic Adoration. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Integrity of Creation</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-integrity-of-creation</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/the-integrity-of-creation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 02:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Fox Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[caritas in veritate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first and key places I encountered the spiritual ideas that eventually led to my baptism was Estes Park, high in the Rockies, amidst Birkenstock-wearing radical environmentalists. It was an interesting time for politics in the late 80s and early 90s and I was looking for new ideas. So were lots of people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God As My Improv Partner</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/god-as-my-improv-partner</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/god-as-my-improv-partner#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa Aljentera</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[admitting a mistake]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drawing closer to god]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[perfect day]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=18037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, my spiritual life unfolds like it might on an improv stage. Both improv and spirituality have organic qualities, great depth and playfulness, too. And looking at my faith life through the lens of improv comedy helps me reclaim unscripted moments in new ways. I began attending improv classes in Chicago as a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Draper: Spiritual Director?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/don-draper-spiritual-director</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/don-draper-spiritual-director#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Otto</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[discerning God's call]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=17976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Few of us think or live like Don Draper from “Mad Men.” You won’t find me hiding behind my office door drinking whiskey, concealing secret affairs or unseemly behavior. My office doesn’t even have a door. Seeing the way Don treats certain people you might call him heartless. But there’s something about Don Draper that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;I Am Trayvon Martin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/i-am-trayvon-martin</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/i-am-trayvon-martin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ansel Augustine</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=17963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I am Trayvon Martin!” This has been the rallying cry of so many people (Black and other races too) since the shooting of an unarmed 17-year-old African-American teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer in a suburb outside Orlando, Florida. The watchman, George Zimmerman, claimed self-defense and said he pursued the young black teenager because he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Works: Waiting patiently</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-52-waiting-patiently</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-52-waiting-patiently#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Fox Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asking for patience]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=15119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most popular columns I’ve ever written is about struggling with being on time. It led to a TV interview and over two years later people still regularly bring it up in conversation. But working on your own on-timeness can lead to an interesting new issue: being on time when others are not. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection Women</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/resurrection-women</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/resurrection-women#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Kennell Kim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tawkkol Karman]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=17810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are tired. We feel it is now time to rise up and speak … You are asking, “Who are these women?&#8221; I will say we are ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters. For us, this is just the beginning. &#8211; Leymah Gbowee, winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize In almost every corner of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Soprano and Holy Thursday</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/tony-soprano-and-holy-thursday</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/tony-soprano-and-holy-thursday#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Gibbons</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kicking and Screaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good friday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holy Thursday]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bustedhalo.com/?p=17824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I hail for the great state of New Jersey. And when you grow up in the Garden State, there is a rich assortment of personalities that have shaped the culture and the history of New Jersey for generations. Singers, politicians, actors… a wide variety of people who have contributed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking Through the Triduum</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/walking-through-the-triduum</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/walking-through-the-triduum#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julianne Wallace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Triduum (TRIH-du-um) is the time of the Church year when we celebrate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This three-day celebration begins with the Holy Thursday Mass and continues on Good Friday with the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion. At the end of this liturgy, we leave the church in silence, waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, My God: Maternal Love and the Cross</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/oh-my-god-maternal-love-and-the-cross</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/oh-my-god-maternal-love-and-the-cross#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caitlin Kennell Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 7, 2008 at approximately three o’clock in the afternoon Theodore Xavier Kim had his first shots ... four of them. Now, it should be noted that I love my son’s pediatrician. I’m using the word LOVE here.]]></description>
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		<title>March Madness: It All Comes Down To Tonight (and Tomorrow Night)</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/march-madness-it-all-comes-down-to-tonight-and-tomorrow-night</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/march-madness-it-all-comes-down-to-tonight-and-tomorrow-night#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s game time. Tonight is the NCAA Men’s Tournament Championship Game. Over the weekend Kentucky was victorious over Louisville in the bluegrass battle and Kansas edged out Ohio State. Unfortunately, not a single religiously affiliated school made it through to the Final Four in the men’s tourney. The NCAA Women’s Tournament was a different story. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Works: The Hunger Games &#8212; Is Its Violence Appropriate?</title>
		<link>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-the-hunger-games-is-its-violence-appropriate</link>
		<comments>http://bustedhalo.com/features/what-works-the-hunger-games-is-its-violence-appropriate#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Fox Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t going to write about The Hunger Games movie – I&#8217;m a huge fan of the books and had no advance screening, so I just went to the theater with everyone else on opening night as a consumer. But I have to share my reaction to concern expressed about The Hunger Games&#8216; violence which [...]]]></description>
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