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	<title>Busted Halo &#187; Richard G. Malloy, SJ</title>
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		<title>What is wrong with watching pornography?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-wrong-with-watching-pornography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[human trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  What is wrong with watching pornography?  I&#8217;m not really hurting anybody, isn&#8217;t it better than having sex with someone else?
The porn industry does hurt many people, specifically the men, women and children chewed up and spit out by an unscrupulous, to say the least, worldwide sex industry.  The multi-billion dollar porn industry hurts not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I prove to my atheist professor that God exists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[athiests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Does God Exist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proving God exists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can I prove to my atheist professor that God exists?
Kill’em (Just Kidding!).  Short of your professor being convinced by the arguments of brilliant minds like St. Thomas Aquinas or Bernard Lonergan, S.J., there is little we can do.  (Personally I love the argument from contingent being [that which can not exist].  Such being must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If there is a God then why is there suffering in the world?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/if-there-is-a-god-then-why-is-there-suffering-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[If there is a God then why is there suffering in the world]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[theodicy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  If there is a God then why is there suffering in the world?


I often preach that there are only two things of which I am absolutely sure: one, God loves us and, two, humans suffer.  No one has ever disagreed with the second assertion.

This question of evil, known in theological circles as the theodicy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why can&#8217;t people live together before marriage?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/why-cant-people-live-together-before-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/why-cant-people-live-together-before-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Can catholics live together before marriage?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living in sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living together]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why can&#8217;t people live together before marriage?
Erma Bombeck once said “Living together is to marriage as babysitting is to being a parent.”  If living together before marriage was such a sure fire way to ensure a marriage’s success, divorce rates for those who cohabitate would be lower than those who don’t.  Actually the opposite is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is getting drunk a mortal sin?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-getting-drunk-a-mortal-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-getting-drunk-a-mortal-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is getting drunk a mortal sin?

I stopped drinking Jan. 1, 1979.  My personal history in college and some family dynamics made me wonder about my drinking.  Quitting drinking is one of the healthiest and sanest things I’ve ever done.  So I know what it is to drink, and I know what it is to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is foreplay against Catholic teaching?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-foreplay-against-catholic-teaching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[foreplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is foreplay against Catholic teaching?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is foreplay against Catholic teaching?  Can I touch my girlfriend since her orgasm is not tied to fertility?
Catholic teaching is set within a larger context, i.e., the invitation to form ourselves as the loving and generous persons God, and we, deeply desire ourselves to be.  These “is it against the church?” questions always make me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the deal with the Vatican now saying that there is no Limbo? Isn&#8217;t this a change in doctrine?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-the-deal-with-the-vatican-now-saying-that-there-is-no-limbo-isnt-this-a-change-in-doctrine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-the-deal-with-the-vatican-now-saying-that-there-is-no-limbo-isnt-this-a-change-in-doctrine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can the Catholic church change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church changes teaching on Limbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What is Limbo? Where do unbaptized babies go?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the deal with the Vatican now saying that there is no Limbo? Isn&#8217;t this a change in doctrine?
The issue is more about the relationship of baptism and salvation, than it is about limbo.  The teaching on limbo didn’t change so much as the teaching on salvation without baptism changed.  At Vatican II the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I continue to be faithful to god and his commandments while still be tempted by sexual activity?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/how-can-i-continue-to-be-faithful-to-god-and-his-commandments-while-still-be-tempted-by-sexual-activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends with benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hooking up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  I am a young man who recently came back to the Catholic church and I am happy to have found God back into my life.  The problem is that i am in a serious relationship for 7 years now, are we are getting married in 2010 and are having sex regularly.  Technically I&#8217;m in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can we be sure that heaven exists?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/how-can-we-be-sure-that-heaven-exists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/how-can-we-be-sure-that-heaven-exists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Does Heaven Exist?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heaven]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quetsion:  How can we be sure that heaven exists?  In the whole history of the world how come no one has ever crossed over or communicated from heaven? It seems that we were created from nothing, then it makes sense that we would go back to nothing. Thanks very much busted halo for answering.
 
How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is known about the use of Angel and Saints Oracle Cards?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-known-about-the-use-of-angel-and-saints-oracle-cards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/what-is-known-about-the-use-of-angel-and-saints-oracle-cards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sorcery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Question:  What is known about the use of Angel and Saints Oracle Cards? There appears to be &#8220;readers&#8221; who offer this as a spiritual guide. The cards suggest the use of saints like St. Francis, Mother Teresa and Padre Pio as spiritual guides. I doubt the Church would endorse such practices and a reader being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As a born again Christian who is about to be married, I am wracked with guilt about my past indiscretions, and am worried that my mind (and God&#8217;s eyes) will be focused on my past. What can I do to prevent this?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/sexual_past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/sexual_past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forgiveness for sexual sins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual past]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cloud of Unknowing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“For freedom Christ has set us free” (Gal 5:1).  God loves us and God’s grace frees us.  That’s the foundational truth of our faith.  All else is understood in relation to that overwhelming reality: God loves us.  We can trust God to forgive us and wipe out all our past transgressions, sins, and failures (cf. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have a strong feeling that I was born in the wrong body-gender wise. What should I do about that?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/i-have-a-strong-feeling-that-i-was-born-in-the-wrong-body-gender-wise-what-should-i-do-about-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[LGTB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consult professionals who deal with people who experience your condition.  It is only relatively recently in human history that we have discovered so much about our world (think of the advances in physics and biology these past 100 years) and ourselves (sexuality wasn’t even spoken about in very recent eras).  The reality of transgender people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I&#8217;m confused about my sexuality, should I keep ignoring it and pursue &#8216;normal&#8217; heterosexual relationships?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/if-im-confused-about-my-sexuality-should-i-keep-ignoring-it-and-pursue-normal-heterosexual-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/if-im-confused-about-my-sexuality-should-i-keep-ignoring-it-and-pursue-normal-heterosexual-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[confused about sexu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality and Catholicism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[If I'm confused about my sexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No.  Chastity calls us to undertake the often difficult task of integrating sexuality into our relationships with others and with God (CCC #2337).  At the end of one’s life God is going to ask us how much we loved one another.  The teachings of the church guide us, but at the end of the day, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is masturbation a mortal sin?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-masturbation-a-mortal-sin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/is-masturbation-a-mortal-sin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic teaching on masturbation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Is Masturbation a mortal sin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortal sin means “deadly” sin, the choice to so reject God’s love that the life of grace “dies” in a person.  The meanings of masturbation range over a variety of acts and life situations.  An overly “act” centered approach to sexual morality, in my humble opinion, fails to take into account the multiplicity of meanings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If a married couple are not able to conceive, is it a sin for them to continue having relations?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/if-a-married-couple-are-not-able-to-conceive-is-it-a-sin-for-them-to-continue-having-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/if-a-married-couple-are-not-able-to-conceive-is-it-a-sin-for-them-to-continue-having-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Question Box]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infertility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[married love]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[What does the church teach about infertile couples?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Paul VI, in his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On Human Life), clearly states there are at least “two meanings of the conjugal act: the unitive meaning and the procreative meaning” (HV #12).  Certainly a husband and wife who cannot conceive a child are called to continue to express their love for one another (the unitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where do the church&#8217;s guidelines about sexuality come from?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/where-do-the-churchs-guidelines-about-sexuality-come-from/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bustedhalo.com/questionbox/where-do-the-churchs-guidelines-about-sexuality-come-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[catholic church and sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic church's guidelines on sex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teachings of the Church about sexuality come from the same sources that the church consults to develop teachings on other matters like economics or liturgy, i.e., scripture and tradition.  What the church teaches about sexuality is rooted in understandings of what it is to be a human person in relationship with oneself, others and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind, Body and the Bubble on my Bellybutton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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When Dr. Hill removed his future son-in-law&#8217;s ruptured appendix two weeks before the wedding, it gave me a great line for the homily: &#8220;Salim is the only guy in history who is happy to see his father-in-law coming toward him with a knife.&#8221; It also gave me confidence in surgery. As I watched Salim and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Real Friends in Low Places</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike any time in recent history, college seniors are being forced to think long and hard about what&#8217;s next. Though some no doubt are struggling mightily to ignore that question for another few weeks, with the current economic crisis deepening and unemployment rising it&#8217;s understandable that young adults would have a lot of anxiety about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Christmas in Tough Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How should we celebrate Christmas in tough times? Maybe the way we should have been celebrating the birth of Christ all along. All religious traditions call us to be generous and care for the poor and needy.
&#8220;All you can take with you is that which you&#8217;ve given away.&#8221;
To see that saying framed and embroidered you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Doesn&#8217;t Need an Invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I smiled ruefully on reading Cara O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s article, &#8220;Do We Invite God?&#8221; Whether to &#8220;invite&#8221; God to the wedding is clearly a sincere question for her—and many other young adults. But it indicates both a common misconception (as if God needs an invitation to be present and care for us) and a fundamental mistake that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 4, 2008 —  I&#8217;m hanging out in an enormous public room at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. A large screen TV has one election coverage team chattering and there is an even larger screen on which is projected another channel&#8217;s chatterers. We flip from channel to channel (Fox News eliciting boos and laughs), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The More Things Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, several media outlets, including the New York Times, have printed stories on the increased security surrounding the Senator and his family. &#8220;Obama must be wary of the assassin&#8217;s gun&#8221; was a headline in The Australian, a major newspaper in the land down under. Members of white hate groups increase their rabid, racist rhetoric on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Sex?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Fr. Malloy, are you a virgin?&#8221;  So inquired an undergrad in my intro to sociology class.  Every semester, usually just before Fall or Spring break, I hand out index cards and tell the students &#8220;we&#8217;ve been studying religion as an institution in society.  Here&#8217;s your chance to ask a priest anything you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Faithful Departed: David Halberstam (1934-2007)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Halberstam I will miss. Our relationships with writers tell us much about ourselves. As the young teacher and former student of C. S. Lewis says in Shadowlands, &#8220;We read to know we are not alone.&#8221; I feel more alone, and my world is a lesser place, without David Halberstam.
  Some writers we like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harris and Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Harris&#8217;s The End of Faith (2004) has spawned a viral strain of books viscerally denigrating religion. Everything from Richard Dawkins&#8217; The God Delusion (2006) and Daniel Dennett&#8217;s Breaking the Spell (2006) to Christopher Hitchens&#8217; God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) argue that religious claims&#8212;and those who make them&#8212;are unreasonable and can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Way Beyond Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine being tortured and raped, and then being forced to watch as the &#8216;evil-doers&#8217; rape your daughter.  All the while you know you do not have the information they want.  You simply do not know where your son is, and these security forces want to find him.
No, this is not some plot out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message to Alpha Males: Change!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The good news for humans is that it looks like peaceable conditions, once established, can be maintained&#8221; says primatologist Frans de Waal. &#8220;And if Baboons can do it, why not us?&#8221;
In 2004, Stanford University biologist and neurologist Robert Sapolsky reported that violence considered normal among baboons, can be radically and permanently transformed. Over twenty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All is Gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVERTOWN, PA
December 1958
It’s helpful to have an older brother who’s taller than you. At the age of four Timmy is a year older and can reach things I can’t.  One morning, he climbs up on a chair he’s put in the closet we’re not supposed to open, and sees toys on the shelf, new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ride the Bus!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard G. Malloy, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid 1980s, I was studying theology in Boston.  Several other young Jesuits and I moved from Cambridge&#8212;where the Jesuit School of Theology was located near Harvard Square&#8212;to live in Roxbury, the black and Latino section of town.  Each day when I would get on a bus I would almost always be [...]]]></description>
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