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	<title>FIRST THINGS: On the Square</title>
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		<title>John Cardinal O&#8217;Connor, 1920–2000</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How am I indebted to him? Let me count the ways. No, it would take too long. Suffice it to say that he received me into full communion; he ordained me a priest; he was a friend who never said no when he could say yes. And he was a great Cardinal Archbishop of New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tsunami and Theodicy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David B. Hart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[(Tens of thousands of Burmese have already died in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar this past weekend, and tens of thousands more are threatened by disease and a lack of food and clean water. Children comprise upward of 40 percent of the dead. We thought this would be an appropriate moment to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Hassler&#8217;s Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte Hays</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Jon Hassler, the Catholic novelist who was so unjustly tagged a “regional writer,” died in the spring, at the age of seventy-four, his passing did not trigger the barrage of appreciative pieces one might have expected in Catholic publications. Death, like life, can be unfair.
Though he transcended the regional label, Hassler was a distinctly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ Against the Multiculturalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen H. Webb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Address written for entering students of Wabash College, Class of 2012
	Christians believe that God became human in Jesus Christ. If so, it follows that there is something called humanity. That is, humans have a nature, a shared or common nature. Human nature is not just a social construction. Human nature is real. And if it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crime So Monstrous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 11:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Logan Paul Gage</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If when you think of slavery, you imagine a distant, bygone era, ponder this conversation:
Florin: That&#8217;s not a lot. For one night, I make two hundred Euros off her. . . . She’s very clean. A very nice girl—you won&#8217;t have any problems with her. Whatever you say, she will do.”
Skinner: Two thousand seems like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict and the Human Face of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 11:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard John Neuhaus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We will be, or at least we should be, pondering the visit of Pope Benedict for a long time to come. I do not agree with the widely expressed view that this will be his only pastoral visit to America. To judge by the vitality exhibited, which seemed to grow with his every day here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick C. Beeman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the profession of medicine going? Has it become simply applied biology, another “job” among equally good ways of earning a living? What kind of person should the physician be? What about bioethics? Is patient autonomy the only viable moral absolute? Oh, and—who is Dr. Edmund Pellegrino?
In The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of the Priest in Public Affairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles J. Chaput</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic leadership in the secular world belongs to laypeople, not to clergy or religious. The visible role of the priest in public affairs—if by public affairs we mean political affairs—should normally be pretty small. 
It’s very dangerous for the Church to identify with one political party. It’s not my business to tell people to vote [...]]]></description>
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