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	<title>Archdiocese of Washington &#187; Evangelization</title>
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	<description>Connecting the dots between Catholic faith and culture</description>
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		<title>Seven Habits of Divinely Inspired Evangelizers</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/07/seven-habits-of-divinely-inspired-evangelists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the  Gospel today the Lord shows forth that his plan for Evangelization is not just some sort of haphazard, shoot from the hip program where he wanders about aimlessly. Rather he had a plan to visit specific cities at specific times. And, in order to prepare for his visit, he sent an entourage ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>First Huddle then Hustle! Pentecost and Evangelization</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/05/first-huddle-then-hustle-pentecost-and-evangelization/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/05/first-huddle-then-hustle-pentecost-and-evangelization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 03:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we celebrated Pentecost Sunday wherein the Church is strengthened and empowered for her great mission to go unto all the nations. The principal account of it took place in the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2).
As we encounter the Church we find a Church that has been given quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>When going to Church hurts</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/05/when-going-to-church-hurts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/05/when-going-to-church-hurts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 23:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Curtis Turner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Mass a few weeks ago, I encountered a parishioner who was feeling very hurt by the Church and specifically, a comment that made her feel unwelcome in the parish.
Her story made me recall many years ago when I was starting my career as a high school teacher.  I attended a small parish in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>We don’t teach them because THEY are Catholic; we teach them because WE are!</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/04/we-don%e2%80%99t-teach-them-because-they-are-catholic-we-teach-them-because-we-are/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/04/we-don%e2%80%99t-teach-them-because-they-are-catholic-we-teach-them-because-we-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Curtis Turner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evangelization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We don’t teach them because THEY are Catholic; we teach them because WE are!&#8221; I have heard this quote attributed to the former Archbishop of Washington, James Cardinal Hickey.  Apparently, this was the Cardinal’s response to a question of why Catholics should support a Catholic school that doesn’t have many Catholics among its student body.
Building [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Catholic Schools Week &#8211; and I&#8217;ve got stress</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2010/02/catholic-schools-week-ive-got-stress/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2010/02/catholic-schools-week-ive-got-stress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deacon Curtis Turner</dc:creator>
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As Catholic Schools Week comes to a snowy end, I’ve got stress! Brothers and sisters, I work at a school whose original mission in 1828 was to “Teach the children of slaves to read the Bible.” Clearly, the foundress of my school, Mother Mary Lange, OSP, saw a dire need for ministry to the neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Where do Catholics Come From?</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2009/12/where-do-catholics-come-from/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2009/12/where-do-catholics-come-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Timoney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do Buffalo Bill Cody, Johann Christian Bach, Salvatore Dali, Dorothy Day and Emperor Constantine have in common? They are all converts to the Catholic Faith!
 In the Department of Evangelization and Family Life, we spend a lot time looking at research that studies the number of Catholics who have stop practicing the faith or left [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Agonize! Just Evangelize!</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2009/09/dont-agonize-just-evangelize/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2009/09/dont-agonize-just-evangelize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in 10th Grade my hair was long, down on my shoulders, I listened to hard rock, doubted that God existed, and had devilish &#8220;blacklight posters&#8221; on my wall that frightened my mother. Today I am a priest.
I have no doubt that I emerged from my agnostic, hippie, rebellious stage as the result [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Evangelization on the Run</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2009/09/evangelization-on-the-run/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2009/09/evangelization-on-the-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Ferstl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week a friend and I were on a run, and at one point we decided to take a break and walk for a block, continuing the conversation we were having about Satan’s lies and Christ’s redeeming grace. Hearing a conversation like this at a faith sharing meeting would be fairly normal, but for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jesus is Real to Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2009/09/jesus-is-real-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2009/09/jesus-is-real-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evangelization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if you have the heart of an Evangelizer? We Catholics haven&#8217;t been too good with evangelization and to some extent many of us have never been evangelized. One diagnosis common today is that many Catholics are &#8220;sacramentalized but unevangelized.&#8221; What this means is that many Catholics have received sacraments and many even go [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conversion Story and What We Can Learn About Evangelization</title>
		<link>http://blog.adw.org/2009/08/conversion-story-and-what-we-can-learn-about-evangelizing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.adw.org/2009/08/conversion-story-and-what-we-can-learn-about-evangelizing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Msgr. Charles Pope</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evangelization]]></category>
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 Time Magazine  recently featured a story by Amy Sullivan on the Conversion of Newt Gingrich to Catholicism along with references to the conversion of other well-known individuals. I thought I might present excerpts for the article along with my own commentary in RED.  By the way, I am aware that a figure like Newt Gingrich [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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