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	<title>Archdiocese of Washington &#187; Msgr. Charles Pope</title>
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	<description>Connecting the dots between Catholic faith and culture</description>
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		<title>Awesome or Awful? Studying the &#8220;Christ in Majesty&#8221; Mosaic at the National Basilica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I have discovered that very few people are neutral on is the image of Christ seated in Judgment on the apse wall of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. (See photo at right). People either love it or hate it.
Those who hate it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set Your House in Order! (in four easy steps)</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/better-set-your-house-in-order-he-may-be-coming-soon-and-hell-hit-like-an-atom-bomb-when-he-comes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/better-set-your-house-in-order-he-may-be-coming-soon-and-hell-hit-like-an-atom-bomb-when-he-comes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moral Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holy Communion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a Gospel song written back in the 1950’s called “Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb!” It is a warning to be prepared for death. Here are a few of the lyrics:
Every body’s worried ’bout that Atom Bomb. No one seems worried about the Day my Lord shall come! Better set your house in order, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nihilism Reaches the Suburbs</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/nihilism-reaches-the-suburbs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/nihilism-reaches-the-suburbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog contains something of my personal story. If you want to skip the &#8220;personal story segment&#8221; and shorten your reading,  jump down to (What is Nihilism?) 
What a Year! Those of us who are a little on the older side lived through and remember the dramatic culture changing year of 1968. What an awful year [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Little Children Can Teach Us About Prayer.</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/kids-and-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/kids-and-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to our struggle in  prayer there are some things that we need to unlearn. For too many private prayer is often a formal, even stuffy affair that drips of boredom and unnecessary formality and has lots of rules. Perhaps we learned some of our lessons too well. And yet many of the youngest [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Despite Her Pain, She Chose Life</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/despite-her-pain-she-chose-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/despite-her-pain-she-chose-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moral Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pro-life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aborion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The video below is a very moving story about a child who was conceived as the result of a rape. But his mother, despite her pain chose life. She brought him to term and the child, Ryan, was adopted by a large family of what became 13 Children, 10 of them adopted.
It is thought by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>One Hundred Questions that Jesus Asked and YOU must answer.</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/answer-the-question-one-hundred-questions-that-jesus-asked/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/answer-the-question-one-hundred-questions-that-jesus-asked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lectio Divina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the bigger mistakes people make in reading Scripture is that they read it as a spectator. For them Scripture is a colloection of stories and events that took place thousands of years ago. True enough, we are reading historical accounts. But, truth be told these ancient stories are our stories. We are in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Learning the Lessons of Lazarus and the Rich Man</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/learning-the-lessons-of-lazarus-and-the-rich-man/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/learning-the-lessons-of-lazarus-and-the-rich-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moral Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judgment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The well known story of the Lazarus and the Rich Man was read at Mass yesterday morning. At one level the story seems plain enough: to neglect the poor is a damnable sin. But there are other important teachings contained in this Gospel, teachings about death, judgment, heaven and hell.  They are hidden in the details [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do We Need a New Word for Marriage?</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/do-we-need-a-new-word-for-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/do-we-need-a-new-word-for-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holy matrimony]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.adw.org/?p=5906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Washington DC today Gay and Lesbian couples lined up to apply for &#8220;Marriage&#8221;  Licenses. It is a simple fact that word &#8220;marriage&#8221; as we have traditionally known it is being redefined in our times. To many in the secular world the word no longer means what it once did and when the Church [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>102</slash:comments>
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		<title>Critical Keys for Catholic Catechesis: Discipline and Content</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/critical-keys-for-catholic-catechesis-discipline-and-content/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/critical-keys-for-catholic-catechesis-discipline-and-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catechesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost no one in the Church would claim today that we have done a good job of handing on the faith to our children. Depending on how we reckon it we have lost two or three generations to an ignorance and inability to articulate the  faith. Even the most basic teachings are unknown to the young.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Only Shades of Gray: A Critique of Moral Relativism in a Monkees Song?</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/only-shades-of-gray-a-critique-of-moral-relativism-in-a-monkees-song/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/only-shades-of-gray-a-critique-of-moral-relativism-in-a-monkees-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a song about the sadness of moral relativism in an unusual place: “The Greatest Hits of the Monkees.” Some who are old enough may remember growing up with the songs of the Monkees. I confess their song “Only Shades of Gray” was not one I remember well from those days. But it is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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