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		<title>Pondering the Prodigal Parable</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/pondering-the-prodigal-parable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some thoughts on today&#8217;s Gospel of the Prodigal Son:
The Gospel is overly familiar. We know it so well that we tend to tune it out when it&#8217;s opening lines dawn on our ears. But this is a signal to listen with the heart. To focus on a detail or two we may have ignored before. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prodigal Son in F Major</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/the-prodigal-son-in-f-major/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may well have seen this elsewhere. There are several versions floating around. But here is the story of the Prodigal Son stick on the letter &#8220;F&#8221;
Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the farthings and flew to foreign fields and frittered his fortune, feasting fabulously with faithless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rescuing Hope</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/what-is-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/what-is-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[despair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presumption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope is one of those words (like love) that has to be rescued from a world that has overused and misused it for so long that its original meaning is almost lost. Hope has come to mean something amounting to a vague wish for something or a substitute for the word &#8220;maybe.&#8221; For example a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Seven Deadly Sins: Memorize and Understand Them</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/the-seven-deadly-sins-just-memorize-them/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/the-seven-deadly-sins-just-memorize-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moral Life]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.adw.org/?p=6068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Early in my priesthood I began to feel a bit embarrassed that there were certain things I did not know more thoroughly and had not committed to memory. Among these things were the Seven Deadly Sins, and the Seven Gift of the Holy Spirit. Priests are like doctors. Imagine going to a doctor who was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Awesome or Awful? Studying the &#8220;Christ in Majesty&#8221; Mosaic at the National Basilica</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/awesome-or-awful-studying-the-christ-in-majesty-mosaic-at-the-national-basilica/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/awesome-or-awful-studying-the-christ-in-majesty-mosaic-at-the-national-basilica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Art. architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basilica of the Immaculate Conception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>

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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>Want to go on mission?</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/want-to-go-on-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/want-to-go-on-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ferstl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, the Office of Young Adult Ministry is hosting our Argentina Missionary Reunion and Information Session. 
Young adults who are interested in going on our mission trip in December will have the chance to meet and hear stories from the young adult missionaries of 2008 and 2009! The afternoon will including Mass, a potluck lunch, reflections [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<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>My Best Friend</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/my-best-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/03/my-best-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ferstl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about friendship a lot recently, both same sex and opposite sex.  In the past, I&#8217;ve shared blogs on What is Christian Friendship? and Having a Diversity of Friendships. But when I wrote the blog Marriage and Womanhood, one of the &#8220;rules&#8221; that people had a hard time agreeing with was #3 &#8220;Do not have an intimate [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.adw.org/?p=5956</guid>
		<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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