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		<title>Homosexual Protest at Acushnet, MA, Parish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Doyle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heresies and Errors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today [Monday, May 21] criticized the demonstration held yesterday during the 10:30 a.m. Mass at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet.  Ten protesters, some carrying signs, marched on the sidewalk across the street from the entrance to the church.  They were protesting the brief appearance last week of a sign on the church&#8217;s message board supporting the traditional definition &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/homosexual-protest-at-acushnet-ma-parish.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conflicting Reports on &#8216;Nostra Aetate&#8217;</title>
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		<comments>http://catholicism.org/conflicting-reports-on-nostra-aetate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brother André Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great deal of talk surrounding the pending Rome-SSPX rapprochement has presented us with two cardinals publicly giving conflicting reports on the magisterial character of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II document on non-Catholic religions. Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, says that the document, and the post-conciliar papal statements concerning Catholic-Jewish relations, &#8220;are binding on a &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/conflicting-reports-on-nostra-aetate.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SSPX: &#8216;With or Against Rome from This Point On&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catholicism.org</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Current Issues in the Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Kreuz.net via the Eponymous Flower: &#8230;Bishop Fellay explained that the current &#8220;seemingly comfortable&#8221; situation is coming to an end for the Society. The current way will not continue:  &#8221;It will be a with or  against Rome from this point on.&#8221; Both will be hard. Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Ascension Octave/Pentecost Novena</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 18:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brother André Marie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are in the Octave of the Ascension, so meditating on this mystery is timely: The Ascension and the Apostolate. We regret that, due to our losing Internet access for a couple of days, we were unable to announce our Pentecost Novena in a timely way online. It&#8217;s not too late to join us, as long as you make a full nine days of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Back Online</title>
		<link>http://catholicism.org/back-online.html</link>
		<comments>http://catholicism.org/back-online.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brother André Marie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to lightning that struck the antenna by which we connect to the Internet, SBC has been offline a couple of days. The site was running fine, as it is hosted elsewhere, but we have not had access to it since the ill-fated electrical storm that stuck shortly before midnight on the eve of the Ascension. The last thing posted, shortly before we lost our Internet &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/back-online.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Father Faber on the Salvation of Non-Catholics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fr. Frederick W. Faber</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outside the Church there is no Salvation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the Precious Blood had been shed, and yet we had no priesthood, no Sacraments, no jurisdiction, no sacramentals, no mystical life of the visible unity of the Church&#8211; life, so it seems, would be almost intolerable. This is the condition of those outside the Church; and certainly as we grow older, as our experience widens, as our knowledge of ourselves deepens, as our acquaintance &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/father-faber-on-the-salvation-of-non-catholics.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Christ&#8217; Hospital Rehires Notorious Baby Killer Abortionist as Gynecologist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christ Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clarence Gamble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eugenicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Gamble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proctor and Gamble]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christ Hospital of Cincinnati was founded in 1889 by James Gamble whose soap company would become Proctor and Gamble, Inc. According to the hospital website, he, and some  Cincinnati locals, &#8220;invited Isabella Thoburn, a teacher, nurse, and missionary, to come to Ohio. They asked her to start a program to train deaconesses and missionaries to carry on religious, educational, and philanthropic work to alleviate the &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/christ-hospital-rehires-notorious-baby-killer-abortionist-as-gynecologist.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Nine Prayers of Holy Mass That Forgive Venial Sins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass and the Liturgy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are nine prayers in the Ordinary of the traditional Latin Mass that may be efficacious for the forgiveness of venial sin. This depends, of course, on the sentiments of contrition inhering in the heart of the worshiper who is offering the prayers along with the celebrant as he follows the latter&#8217;s sacrificial actions with his own missal. Father Michael Jarecki, our chaplain for many &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/the-nine-prayers-of-holy-mass-that-forgive-venial-sins.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tweeting the Pilgrimage for Restoration</title>
		<link>http://catholicism.org/tweeting-the-pilgrimage-for-restoration.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Br. Maximilian Maria, M.I.C.M.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Supposedly, revolutions get organized on Twitter now. Flashmobs, too. If social disorder and moral turpitude can be organized there, can wholesome Catholic events? If you&#8217;re interested in coming to a quasi-scientific answer to this question and you use Twitter, then follow the Pilgrimage for Restoration on Twitter and &#8220;retweet&#8221; the following status: The 17th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for Friday-Sunday, September 28-30. #PilgrimageForRestoration &#8230; <a class="readmorelink" href="http://catholicism.org/tweeting-the-pilgrimage-for-restoration.html">More &#8594;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Burning Question</title>
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		<comments>http://catholicism.org/burning-question.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 15:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Philosopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do most &#8220;Catholic&#8221; politicians invoke their religion exactly when they are contradicting it in public?]]></description>
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