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		<title>Controlling Catholic media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Moses</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some interesting comments from the ChicagoTribune.com, U.S. Catholic and National Catholic Reporter about what a statement by Cardinal Francis George means for Catholic media and, by the way, what it might mean to Commonweal. Here is what the cardinal said in opening remarks at the recent meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rowan Williams in Rome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph A. Komonchak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, yesterday gave an important speech in Rome at  a symposium sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. It is devoted to the doctrine of the Church (ecclesiology), focuses on three main questions (authority, primacy, the relation between the universal and the local), and wonders whether disagreements with regard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Invisible Visible</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5526</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert P. Imbelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow Pope Benedict meets with artists in the Sistine Chapel and will address them. In last Wednesday&#8217;s Audience the Pope spoke about the beauty and spiritual inspiration of Europe&#8217;s cathedrals. He said:
the power of the Romanesque style and the splendor of the Gothic cathedrals remind us that the &#8220;via pulchritudinis,&#8221; the way of beauty, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What?  Me Pray?</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5488</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>unagidon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you have a group of Catholics over for a dinner party, and they&#8217;ve stayed a bit too late but you don&#8217;t want to be rude by pointedly winding the alarm clock in front of them, one thing that always works to clear the room is to bring up in conversation the efficacy of prayer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing the health-care-reform plans</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5500</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mollie Wilson O&#39;Reilly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has a helpful interactive chart comparing the various provisions and stipulations of the House and Senate health-care reform bills. Here&#8217;s how they break down the abortion issue:
HOUSE VERSION


Health plans could choose whether to cover abortion.
Low- and middle-income people who receive federal subsidies to buy insurance could not choose a health plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Serious Man</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5485</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret O'Brien Steinfels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone seen the Coen brothers&#8217; latest movie, A Serious Man?
We saw it last week-end in our Upper West Side movie theatre. The story opens with a Yiddish language prologue, which many in the audience seemed to understand&#8211;leading me to an obvious conclusion: the audience was largely Jewish and found the movie [a Job story] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Directive 58 of the ERD</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5482</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lauritzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At their meeting this week, the bishops approved a revision to Directive 58 of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care services.  The Catholic Health Association has summarized the change here.  The core of the change is summarized by the CHAUSA as follows:
The new Directive 58 makes three points:

There is a general [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Jay to U.S. bishops: homosexuality is not a predictor of clergy abuse (updated)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Gallicho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big news from the AP:
A preliminary report commissioned by the nation&#8217;s Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex-abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests were more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the study&#8217;s lead authors said yesterday.
The full $2 million study by researchers at the John Jay College of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Lost in Translation&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5458</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Gallicho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the USCCB continues to discuss the new liturgical translations, perhaps you&#8217;d be interested in reading a backgrounder on the controversy, courtesy of John Wilkins, former editor of the Tablet of London.

On December 4, 1963, at the end of the council’s second session, the [Constitution on Sacred Liturgy] was passed by a massive majority: there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s next, birth control?</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5456</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Lauritzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago, in a post responding to Bob Imbelli’s thread on the Stupak amendment, David Cloutier chastised progressives for exaggerating the implications of the amendment.  He wrote, “When people say, &#8216;oh, what’s next, birth control, etc.&#8217; this is just like Republicans claiming that this bill is a &#8216;government takeover&#8217; and [that] Dems want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USCCB meeting live.</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5451</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Gallicho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Show&#8217;s over, folks, but feel free to continue the discussion below. The USCCB meeting page is here.
]]></description>
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		<title>November 20 issue, now online</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5446</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mollie Wilson O&#39;Reilly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another issue of Commonweal is headed for your mailbox and available now online. Free for everyone to read:

John Connelly&#8217;s cover story on how one East German town helped bring down the Berlin Wall, and what the citizens have learned in twenty years: &#8220;The Price of Freedom&#8220;
Celia Wren&#8217;s review of a new production of A Streetcar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCA Martyrs</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5441</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Fullam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 20 years ago today that 6 Jesuits, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter were killed at the University of Central America in San Salvador. I marked the anniversary at UCA with a delegation of students and faculty from my school. 
Romero is also widely memorialized too, and the 4 American churchwomen who were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Catholic identity</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5438</link>
		<comments>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5438#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gibson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting start to the bishops&#8217; fall meeting, as Cardinal George delivered a strongly-worded opening address on episcopal authority and confirmed the &#8220;open secret&#8221; of a kind of Catholic identity project that he is hatching. My take is at PoliticsDaily. The lead:
BALTIMORE &#8212; The leader of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States on Monday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerpoint</title>
		<link>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5429</link>
		<comments>http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=5429#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathleen Kaveny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This semester, I have been doing something I swore I&#8217;d never do&#8211;using powerpoint to teach my Contracts class.  It was a necessity during the first half of the semester&#8211;I couldn&#8217;t walk to the board to scribble unintelligibly.  And then, well, since I started, I thought I might as well finish.
Some things are fun&#8211;you can pull [...]]]></description>
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