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		<title>Vatican says unity with traditionalist SSPX needs ‘further discussions’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Vatican News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Semitism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vatican’s doctrinal office said “further discussions” will be needed with the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in order to heal a decades-long split within the Roman Catholic Church.]]></description>
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		<title>Washington’s Catholic archbishop, Georgetown president spar over graduation invitation to Kathleen Sebelius</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cardinal Donald Wuerl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John J. DeGioia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The already-boiling debate about Georgetown University’s decision to invite Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak during graduation hit the highest levels of Catholic Washington on Tuesday, with the region’s archbishop slamming the school’s president for the “shocking” invitation and saying the real issue was being distorted.]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio Catholic university ends student health plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[drop student health insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal health-care rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franciscan University in Steubenville]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Catholic university in eastern Ohio says it will drop student health insurance partly because of a new federal health-care rule requiring religious-affiliated institutions’ insurance plans to provide contraception coverage.
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		<title>Roman Catholic bishop Raymond Lahey stripped of clerical duties</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child pornography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Roman Catholic bishop who was convicted of importing child pornography into Canada has been stripped of his clerical duties.]]></description>
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		<title>USCCB joins in petition asking US to change &#8216;outdated&#8217; nuclear policy</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/usccb-joins-in-petition-asking-us-to-change-outdated-nuclear-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[US News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of International Justice and Peace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Colecchi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined about four dozen other national organizations in amassing more than 50,000 signatures on a petition asking for a change in the United States' "outdated" nuclear arms policy.]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation in the homes of war criminals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fr Michael Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesuit Fr Jub Phoktavi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Khompong Thom in Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thai Cambodian border]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, I was travelling around the Catholic parish of Khompong Thom in Cambodia in company with the director of UCAN News, Australian Jesuit Fr Michael Kelly, and the parish priest, Thai Jesuit Fr Jub Phoktavi ]]></description>
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		<title>My Take: What the Bible really says about homosexuality</title>
		<link>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/my-take-what-the-bible-really-says-about-homosexuality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/my-take-what-the-bible-really-says-about-homosexuality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible and homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[same sex marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama’s support of same-sex marriage, like blood in the water, has conservative sharks circling for a kill. In a nation that touts separation of religion and government, religious-based arguments command this battle. Lurking beneath anti-gay forays, you inevitably find religion and, above all, the Bible.]]></description>
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		<title>On Earth The Challenge of Edith Stein</title>
		<link>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/on-earth-the-challenge-of-edith-stein/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/on-earth-the-challenge-of-edith-stein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carmelites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[edith stein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jewish convert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survival in Auschwitz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stein has for years haunted me from a distance. I followed the controversy around her canonization; she would turn up from time to time in my reading, evoking an intention, never followed up to read some of her own writings.  For a couple weeks now I’ve been doing just this, reading first Waltraud Herbstrith’s biography of Stein, and now her incomplete autobiography.]]></description>
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		<title>Archdiocese of Washington rebukes Georgetown on Sebelius speech</title>
		<link>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/archdiocese-of-washington-rebukes-georgetown-on-sebelius-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/archdiocese-of-washington-rebukes-georgetown-on-sebelius-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[US News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archdiocese of Washington]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Human Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Human Services Secretary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sebelius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Washington, the Catholic Church’s authority in the nation’s capital, is rebuking another Catholic icon, Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic college in the United States. The conflict is over the university’s Public Policy Institute’s invitation to Kathleen Sebelius, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic bishops reject modified birth control rule</title>
		<link>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/catholic-bishops-reject-modified-birth-control-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cathnewsusa.com/2012/05/catholic-bishops-reject-modified-birth-control-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[US News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraceptives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama Administration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Catholic bishops are rejecting the Obama administration&#8217;s plan to accommodate faith groups that object to the birth control mandate. The bishops said in a statement Tuesday to Health and Human Services that the prospective new rules don&#8217;t do enough [...]]]></description>
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