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		<title>For fellow readers and book lovers &#8230; &quot;best books of 2009&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know &#8212; the decade is not yet over &#8212; but as we had into the final year, some compilations of recommended reading and &#8220;best of the decade&#8221; lists. The best theology books of 2009, by Ben Myers (Faith and Theology). &#8220;The top ten pro-liberty books of the decade&#8221; as selected by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1318&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here and There</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m a Catholic too&#8221; &#8211; Fr Dwight Longenecker (Standing on My Head): When I was an Anglican priest I once said to the (Catholic) Abbot of Quarr, &#8220;I&#8217;m a Catholic too, but in the Anglican Church.&#8221; He smiled and said, &#8220;You should understand that we Catholics define what being Catholic is rather differently than you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1317&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Is the SSPX Right about Vatican II?&quot; &#8212; A dialogue between Aidan Nichols and a &quot;confused Catholic&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Blosser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Rome and the SSPX: a very puzzling dialogue&#8221; &#8212; When Moyra Doorly began to wonder if the SSPX is right about Vatican II she asked leading theologian Aidan Nichols to address her doubts. The initial exchange was published July 3, 2009, and continues in the pages of the Catholic Herald (UK): Letter from a confused [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1316&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Army &#8211; Bringing new life to an old monastery.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maj. Jeffrey Whorton, a Roman Catholic chaplain, celebrating Mass at St. Elijah’s Monastery near Mosul in northern Iraq. The United States Army hopes to restore St. Elijah’s Monastery, an ancient site of Christian worship stuck in the middle of a base in northern Iraq (New York Times December 18, 2009) &#124; Photo Tour of St. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1315&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not that I need another reason to enjoy coffee, but &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melinda Beck provides a roundup of (mostly positive) coffee-related medical research (&#8220;Good News in the Daily Grind&#8221; Wall Street Journal December 29, 2009): This month alone, an analysis in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people who drink three to four cups of java a day are 25% less likely to develop Type 2 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1314&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for 2009 wrap-ups, may I say &#8216;God Bless Dave Barry&#8217; for giving us something to laugh about?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1313&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Peace Prize Speech, Neihbur&#8217;s &quot;Moral Realism&quot; and the Catholic Just War Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Blosser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diverse reactions to President Obama&#8217;s Nobel Peace Price Speech (full text): Fr. James V. Schall praised it: As far as I can tell, nothing in President Obama&#8217;s background or politics prepared us for the remarkably sane address that he delivered in Oslo. He previously went around the world apologizing for everything the Americans ever did, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1312&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Things Into Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A childish orthodoxy&#8230;has also managed to draw decisive attention to the fact that Christ at his birth was wrapped in rags and laid in a manger&#8211;in short, on the humiliation of his coming in the humble form of a servant, and believes that this is the paradox in contrast to coming in glory. Confusion. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1311&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;God conquers our hearts not by force, but by love&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these last days before Christmas, the Church invites us to contemplate the mystery of Christ’s Birth and to experience the joy and hope which the newborn Saviour brings into our world. Gazing on the Christ Child lying in the manger, we contemplate the love of a God who humbly asks us to welcome him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1310&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a proper appreciation of “liberation theology” – Some resources from Pope John Paul II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post to Vox Nova, Michael Iafrate (aka. &#8220;The Catholic Anarchist&#8221;) offers a welcome reminder concerning Pope Benedict&#8217;s admonishment to the Brazilian bishops of &#8220;more or less visible consequences, of rebellion, division, dissent, offense, anarchy are still being felt, creating amidst your diocesan communities great pain and a grave loss of living strength&#8221;, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christopherblosser.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5032096&amp;post=1309&amp;subd=christopherblosser&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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