<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Busted Halo &#187; Brett Hoover, CSP</title> <atom:link href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/author/brett-hoover/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com</link> <description>an online magazine for spiritual seekers.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:00:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>What was the Second Vatican Council?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-was-the-second-vatican-council/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-was-the-second-vatican-council/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:03:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aggiornamento]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John XXIII]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Vi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[What was the Second Vatican Council?]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-was-the-second-vatican-council/</guid> <description><![CDATA[This was the gathering of all the world’s Catholic bishops in the early 1960’s to renew the Catholic Church. It was called by Pope John XXIII who called its purpose aggiornamento which means “updating.”  John XXIII did not live to see the Council finish and Pope Paul VI presided over the conclusion of the council. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-was-the-second-vatican-council/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What is a tabernacle?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-a-tabernacle/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-a-tabernacle/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:58:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[What is a tabernacle?]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-a-tabernacle/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The tabernacle is the chamber where leftover Eucharist is reserved for the sick or dying or to be used at a later mass. If the consecrated body and/or blood of Christ is present inside there is a lit candle above or beside it. Most Catholic churches and some Episcopalian/Anglican churches observe this. Catholics genuflect before [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-a-tabernacle/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>What are &#8220;emergency&#8221; baptisms at hospitals?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-are-emergency-baptisms-at-hospitals/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-are-emergency-baptisms-at-hospitals/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:25:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category> <category><![CDATA[emergency baptisms]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bustedhalo.com/beta2008/wp/?p=516</guid> <description><![CDATA[I think I can explain what was happening here. In Catholic belief and practice, baptism is a &#8216;once for all time&#8217; sacrament. You only get it once and it is effective forever. No one can ever change that you are a Christian and a member of the Body of Christ once it is done. That&#8217;s why [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-are-emergency-baptisms-at-hospitals/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mother of Pearl</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/mother-of-pearl/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/mother-of-pearl/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:49:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[foster families]]></category> <category><![CDATA[novelist mary gordon]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2440</guid> <description><![CDATA[So, do you really have to buy all that stuff for Catholic faith to mean something?  I mean, does a person really have to be a believer? At first, this seems to be the question at the center of novelist Mary Gordon&#8217;s latest work. Pearl is the story of two once-Catholic New Yorkers?each deprived of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/mother-of-pearl/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Being There</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/being-there/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/being-there/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:55:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[andy warhol]]></category> <category><![CDATA[director mike]]></category> <category><![CDATA[monstrance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacrilege]]></category> <category><![CDATA[university of notre dame]]></category> <category><![CDATA[untold numbers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web 24]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=887</guid> <description><![CDATA[Supposedly, Andy Warhol once said that sex and parties were the only two events where you actually had to be there. For a long time I&#8217;ve been wondering—are sacraments the third? Virtual JesusIn May of 2004 BH operations director Mike Hayes and I were leading a discussion on faith and the media at the University of Notre [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/being-there/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Reagan Country</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/reagan-country/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/reagan-country/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:41:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apartheid in south africa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[good riddance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[homeless population]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reagan administration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reagan presidency]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=896</guid> <description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t help it. &#8220;Good riddance,&#8221; I mumbled, as the news came through that Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States, had died on Saturday, June 5, 2004. In these days following his passing, it has seemed like nearly every other American was praising his achievements—the president-savior who gave us &#8220;morning in America, the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/reagan-country/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>If You See Something, Say Something</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/if-you-see-something-say-something/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/if-you-see-something-say-something/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:51:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[al qaeda]]></category> <category><![CDATA[metropolitan transit authority]]></category> <category><![CDATA[subway station]]></category> <category><![CDATA[train car]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2441</guid> <description><![CDATA[Spring arrives, and young people&#8217;s hearts turn to?terrorism. On screen It must have been just about the 21st day of March 2004 that I walked into the Columbus Circle subway station, approached a Metro Card vending machine, and instead of being cheerfully asked whether I wanted to refill my card or purchase a new one, I was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/if-you-see-something-say-something/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Twin Reports but Fraternal Twins</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/twin-reports-but-fraternal-twins/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/twin-reports-but-fraternal-twins/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:52:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic clergy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic priests]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conspiracy theory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[john jay college]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seminary class]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2442</guid> <description><![CDATA[The two reports released Friday, February 27, 2004, on sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy are unprecedented in the history of any institution. When the reports, one conducted by the National Review Board of the U.S. Catholic Church, the other by John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City (commissioned by the Board), conclude [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/twin-reports-but-fraternal-twins/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Don&#8217;t Shut the Door Behind You</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/dont-shut-the-door-behind-you/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/dont-shut-the-door-behind-you/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:54:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[immigrant family]]></category> <category><![CDATA[legal protections]]></category> <category><![CDATA[process of naturalization]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2443</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#8220;There&#8217;s so many of them,&#8221; the septuagenarian remarked to a large gathering of us over dinner that night. &#8220;With all the people coming here from everywhere, can New York City really make room, come up with an apartment for every new immigrant family?&#8221; There was a clear note of doubt in his voice. I wanted [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/dont-shut-the-door-behind-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Se Habla Espanol at Home Depot</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/se-habla-espanol-at-home-depot/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/se-habla-espanol-at-home-depot/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:56:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[immigrants]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2444</guid> <description><![CDATA[Times have changed. Have you noticed how different things are today? As a generic white kid growing up in Southern California, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the prejudice local Latino folks endured. My high school was in a mixed neighborhood, and a lot of white classmates felt it imperative to deride Mexicans from the neighborhood. I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/se-habla-espanol-at-home-depot/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Telling Stories</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/telling-stories/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/telling-stories/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:03:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[angels flight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[best of friends]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crash site]]></category> <category><![CDATA[firehouses]]></category> <category><![CDATA[flight attendant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[good friends]]></category> <category><![CDATA[plaques]]></category> <category><![CDATA[united flight 93]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wooden angels]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1499</guid> <description><![CDATA[Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the U.S. to come face-to-face with Al Qaeda. But that happened here on September 11, 2001, when United Flight 93, angling down [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/telling-stories/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>No News Is Good News</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/no-news-is-good-news/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/no-news-is-good-news/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex & Relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[blackout of 1977]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eastern seaboard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inevitable question]]></category> <category><![CDATA[internet access computers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[midtown manhattan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[millionaires]]></category> <category><![CDATA[new yorkers]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1508</guid> <description><![CDATA[The power actually browned out—gradually—in our section of midtown Manhattan on August 14 at 4:10 p.m. But before ten full minutes had elapsed, everything was completely gone. Like for most of those affected, the information came in slowly. We assumed it was just our immediate neighborhood. Then we heard it was the whole City. Then: New [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/no-news-is-good-news/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Cross in the Empire State Building</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-cross-in-the-empire-state-building/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-cross-in-the-empire-state-building/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:52:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics & Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arizona ranch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[brunswig]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mammoth structure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rock towers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rockefeller center]]></category> <category><![CDATA[staude]]></category> <category><![CDATA[world war ii]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=1509</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday, 1932 An art student stands on the avenue in New York City in 1932, looking up at the Empire State Building, recently completed. Most people from around the world have been impressed by the mammoth structure, awed by its ramrod straightness. Inevitably some visitors think of King Kong. But on that day Marguerite Brunswig, en route [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-cross-in-the-empire-state-building/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>God in a Lifeboat (with a Tiger)</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/god-in-a-lifeboat-with-a-tiger/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/god-in-a-lifeboat-with-a-tiger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Entertainment & Lifestyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[religious faith]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2445</guid> <description><![CDATA[Though more than 90% of us in the U.S. say we believe in Him, God may seem no more real to many of us than, say, Arnold Schwarzeneggar?sure, we&#8217;ve seen Him in the movies (Morgan Freedman in Bruce Almighty, Alanis Morissette in Dogma ), but isn&#8217;t He making his big impact somewhere else (Sodom and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/god-in-a-lifeboat-with-a-tiger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Saving Others, Saving Ourselves</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/saving-others-saving-ourselves/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/saving-others-saving-ourselves/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:59:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[condoleeza rice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[george w bush]]></category> <category><![CDATA[national security advisor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[president of senegal]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2446</guid> <description><![CDATA[July 10 &#8212; President Bush is off barnstorming Africa, and there&#8217;s been no shortage of drama from the very beginning. On the Tuesday after the Fourth of July, the President of Senegal, Adboulaye Wade, literally took him by the hand as they toured Gor?e Island , the westernmost point in Africa. Over a million slaves were sent [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/saving-others-saving-ourselves/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Catholic Confusion</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/catholic-confusion/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/catholic-confusion/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2003 20:01:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cardinal mahony]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cardinal roger mahony]]></category> <category><![CDATA[clergy sex abuse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[governor frank keating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[protecting children]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2447</guid> <description><![CDATA[JUNE 18, New York &#8211; This week the head of the U.S. Catholic Church&#8217;s National Review Board, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, resigned suddenly from his post. The National Review Board is charged with monitoring the Church&#8217;s reforms in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandal. Governor vs. cardinal The drama that led to this conclusion [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/catholic-confusion/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Spiritual Arrogance</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-arrogance/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-arrogance/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2003 20:03:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adulation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[catholic heritage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[humility]]></category> <category><![CDATA[reconciliation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seven capital sins]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2448</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Several years ago, after I made a pretty self-righteous remark at a church meeting, I was reproached as having &#8220;no right to be so flip for someone so young&#8221; (I was 24 at the time, in my first year of seminary). Feeling bruised in the ego, I counterattacked, accusing the person of discriminating against me [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/spiritual-arrogance/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Loving Order More Than People</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/loving-order-more-than-people/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/loving-order-more-than-people/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:04:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex & Relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[human relationships]]></category> <category><![CDATA[resentment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[silent treatment]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2449</guid> <description><![CDATA[Recently a certain American Catholic bishop, who shall remain nameless, was characterized by a seasoned priest I know as &#8220;a man who loves order more than people.&#8221; It certainly wasn&#8217;t meant as a compliment, but believe it or not, he made the remark more in sorrow than in bitterness, as part of a general lament about [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/loving-order-more-than-people/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Everything for Love</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/everything-for-love/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/everything-for-love/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:06:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2450</guid> <description><![CDATA[Readings: Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 Rm 8:31b-34 Mk 9:2-10 Are you willing to risk everything for love? This may sound like the refrain of a Celine Dion song, but instead it is the question that confronts us in the readings from this Sunday of Lent . First it eats at us in the bizarre tale of God asking the biblical [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/everything-for-love/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Buried in History?</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/buried-in-history/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/buried-in-history/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2003 20:08:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[abolitionists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[african american catholics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[black history month]]></category> <category><![CDATA[slave trade]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2451</guid> <description><![CDATA[ The diminuitive, elderly nun took the microphone before our audience of several thousand at the Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. As she began, there was a hush: &#8220;My grandfather was a slave for the Jesuits at Georgetown.&#8221; Though the ownership of African American slaves by Catholic landowners, bishops, and religious orders of men and women [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/buried-in-history/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Time for Revelations</title><link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/time-for-revelations-2/</link> <comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/time-for-revelations-2/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:09:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett Hoover, CSP</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Features]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion & Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gospel of matthew]]></category> <category><![CDATA[revelation]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.bustedhalo.com/?p=2452</guid> <description><![CDATA[ Ever had a revelation? Ever, in the middle of everything ordinary, touched the depths of what is mystery ? Despite the post-New Year hangovers, this is just the time for revelations. 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More traditional Catholics excoriated it, calling it anti-Catholic. And good New York conspiracy nuts were declaring in the diner where I eat on Wednesday mornings that it was all absolutely true. What could I do but read Dan Brown&#8217;s The Da Vinci Code ? Hungry reader that I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/sensational-novel/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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