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		<title>The Sarah Surprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While watching Barack Obama&#8217;s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, my conservative-leaning heart sank a little.  &#8220;There&#8217;s no way,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;McCain will ever out-charisma this guy.  And who&#8217;s he going to pick for V.P. that would garner any real coverage or excitement?  Pawlenty?  Romney?  Capable politicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Pregnancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything funny about a sixteen year old girl getting pregnant? Actually, there&#8217;s quite a bit in the new film Juno.
A smart and smart-mouthed Minnesota teen named Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) finds herself pregnant after her first sexual experience with a shy, nerdy classmate (Michael Cera). Her first inclination is to abort the child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tiny Step Away From Deepest Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	“There is really nothing more intellectually unfashionable than Christianity. If I could have chosen something else, I would have – God just had other plans for me.”
So writes 17-year-old Marjorie Corbman in “A Tiny Step Away From Deepest Faith.” Though only in high school when she wrote the book, Corbman’s capacity for self-reflection and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twice the Pride, Double the Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early on in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi face Jedi-gone-bad Count Dooku in battle,  Dooku&#8211;sensing that Anakin has grown in confidence, arrogance and power since last they met&#8211;makes the prescient comment &#8220;Twice the pride, double the fall.&#8221;  The extent of that fall is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dysfunction Junction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most stressful situations for an engaged couple is meeting their future in-laws and trying to make a good impression. However, the angst-o-meter rises even higher when those in-laws meet each other.
The 2000 hit movie &#8220;Meet the Parents&#8221; captured the first part of that equation with hilarious results. Gaylord &#8220;Greg&#8221; Focker (Ben Stiller) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Quandary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When you get drafted, you&#8217;ll be sorry you voted for Bush,&#8221; some co-workers angrily told me after they heard John Kerry was going to concede.
Considering that I&#8217;m a thirty-something desk jockey who gets winded walking up the subway stairs, that is a scary thought � particularly for the U.S. military. But I didn&#8217;t have the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Common Sense Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats are enemies of religion and corruptors of children. Or so it seems to some conservative Republicans. (Of course, to some Democrats, Republicans want to establish an intolerant despotic theocracy, so there&#8217;s plenty of demonizing on both sides of the political fence!)
After an election in which &#8220;moral values&#8221; were named as the primary motivator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Path Less Taken</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I remember watching a network news report about the beneficial effects of meditative prayer. The report first featured a Catholic women&#8217;s group that was devoted to praying the rosary. The women shown were primarily in their fifties and sixties. Then the report moved on to meditations inspired by Buddhism and Hinduism. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Monkey on the Tabernacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2004 17:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why is there a monkey on the tabernacle?&#8221; my friend asked herself as she walked into church one Sunday morning.
Apparently, a religious education teacher was planning a discussion on Noah&#8217;s Ark for the second grade and had placed inflatable animals all around—even on the small chamber which holds what we as Catholics believe to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be original. I want to be cool.&#8221;
That&#8217;s how sweet-but-awkward thirteen-year-old Jenna Rink feels about life. She&#8217;s frustrated being young and wishes she were like the women in glamour magazines. Though her mother explains, &#8220;Those aren&#8217;t people, dear; those are models,&#8221; her argument falls on deaf ears.
Jenna&#8217;s best friend Matt is also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed Are the Forgetful</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve ever had a relationship you wish you could forget,  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind may give you a different perspective.
When introvert Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) meets extrovert Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet), the ?opposites attract&#8217; principle kicks in. Their coupling eventually turns rocky, so Clementine impulsively undergoes a new medical procedure that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TV geek that I am, September starts me salivating for new shows and returning favorites. On top of my must-see list this year is the second season of Joan of Arcadia, the CBS series about Joan Girardi an ordinary teen who has an extraordinary relationship with God. Joan has carved out a unique niche among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2004 01:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Tony Rossi and I&#8217;m a registered Republican.
There, I admit it.
I don&#8217;t remember what year I registered, but it was before I started paying much attention to politics. The GOP seemed to share my moral values so I signed up.
Leaning GOP but not a sealed deal
In the ensuing years, I&#8217;ve become more interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weary of a Faithless World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares
by Kristin Ohlson, Hyperion Books (2003), 272 pages.
&#8220;During most of my life I had considered faith a kind of sickness, something that softened the brain and allowed the soothing delusion of power. Now I wanted faith, but I wasn&#8217;t sure if I hadn&#8217;t inoculated myself against it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loser in Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2004 01:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, self-help books have asserted that your thoughts influence your reality?that if you schlep through life feeling like a loser, the energies of the universe will make you a loser.
In The Cooler , William H. Macy plays Bernie Lootz, a man whose sad sack demeanor not only makes him perennially unlucky, but affects all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrims&#8217; Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2003 01:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Rossi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that a sexy cocktail waitress inspires a Catholic priest to write a book about faith journeys, but such is the case with Fr. Edward Beck&#8217;s Unlikely Ways Home: Real-Life Spiritual Detours. Story has it that Fr. Beck was having a drink in a Manhattan bar when a friend of his complained that [...]]]></description>
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