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		<title>Saints and All Hallows Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Martin, SJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Father James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, talks about the connection between Halloween (October 31) and All Saints Day (November 1). As part of our ongoing series Googling God: Resources for the Spiritual Seeker, Fr. Martin answers FAQs such as:

How saints get made?
What is a patron saint?
Is praying to the saints [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: Jesus&#8217; Loneliness &amp; Love &amp; The Da Vinci Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2005, novelist Anne Rice stopped by BustedHalo’s® offices in New York to promote her book Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt, the first installment in her planned four-part “autobiography” of Jesus. What was supposed to be a brief interview with the legendary author—who has sold more than 100 million books worldwide—turned into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Sotelo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it is the rising cost of your weekly grocery bill, water cooler rumors about layoffs or the nightly news, everyone is reminded about the downturn in the economy on a daily basis. Last month, the Pope was quoted as saying, &#8220;We are now seeing, in the collapse of major banks, that money vanishes, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Evolution Making a Monkey out of the Catholic Church?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hayes</dc:creator>
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Father George Coyne, SJ, former director of the Vatican Observatory, talks with host Mike Hayes about the Catholic Church&#8217;s official view on evolution with regards to scientific theories and religious interpretations of the origin of the world. As part of our ongoing series &#8220;Googling God: Resources for the Spiritual Seeker,&#8221; Fr. Coyne covers topics like:

Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing With a Loved One Who&#8217;s Depressed</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pspl-75dealing-with-a-loved-one-whos-depressed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last column I shared a letter from Susan, a longtime reader of Pure Sex, Pure Love, who has been dating a man struggling with depression. “How do you deal with a partner who’s dealing with depression? Can you help—and if so, how?” I asked BustedHalo readers to weigh in on this email, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2008 Freshman Survival Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-2008-freshman-survival-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nora Bradbury-Haehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
When we published  Busted Halo&#8217;s&#174; First Annual Freshman Survival Guide in 2005 we thought we had a good idea on our hands, we just didn&#8217;t know how good. Since then, the Guide has been read (and distributed via the condensed, one-page pdf download available here by tens of thousands of college students, administrators and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/jerry-kellman-hiring-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodric Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1980s, when Jerry Kellman interviewed a young, idealistic Ivy League graduate for a $10,000 a year job with Chicago&#8217;s Developing Communities Project (DCP)  he had no way of knowing it would be a meeting that would follow him for the rest of his life. Now, nearly 25 years later, he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Trash-Compactor That Could</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Guhin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Even by Hollywood standards the story idea pitched to movie executives for Pixar&#8217;s WALL-E must have sounded hallucinogenic: &#8220;So we&#8217;ve got this robot, but it&#8217;s a really lonely robot, see, because all the humans have left Earth a complete wasteland and this poor little guy has to pick up their trash&#8212;forever!  Yeah!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Commandments</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eileen Markey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Each painting lays out in black, white, purple and magenta just how present G-D is in all aspects of life."]]></description>
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		<title>The Voice of God</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-voice-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 18:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hayes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has attended a Yankee&#8217;s home game since the mid-twentieth century has been greeted by the unique&#8212;and now legendary&#8212;style of player introductions given over the stadium&#8217;s public address system:
Now batting for the Yankees&#8230; Number 2&#8230; the shortstop&#8230; Derek&#8230; Jeter.. Number 2.
For over 57 years, Bob Sheppard&#8217;s honeyed baritone has been echoing throughout the &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stranger than Science Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ruehlmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book is called Space Vulture, and it&#8217;s a far-out, one-of-a-kind project, even by science fiction standards. The cover features a throwback, Flash-Gordon-style photo of a caped villain with a ray gun. And next to the picture are the names of the two writers: the first is Gary K. Wolf, a sci-fi veteran and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busted: Timothy Radcliffe, OP</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/busted-timothy-radcliffe-op/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill McGarvey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he  bounds off the stage in his white friar&#8217;s habit into the large audience in an Anaheim Convention Center ballroom, Timothy Radcliffe, OP seems to have the energy of a man half his 63 years. He is away from the stage only momentarily to listen to a question from an audience member before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bris</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/the-bris-a-jewish-mother-considers-family-tradition-and-the-pain-of-belonging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Silverglate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight days after birth, a Jewish male infant is circumcised in a ceremony called the bris milah (bris means &#8220;covenant&#8221; in Hebrew). It&#8217;s a party: relatives and friends gather to watch; the baby gets a drop of wine to dull the pain and then sits on his grandfather&#8217;s lap; his grandfather holds him steady. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxymoron No Longer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Adams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was as if I was a kid again.  The gospel choir numbering at least 30 strong lifted their voices to the rooftop.  The pulse of the music, aided by drums, a saxophone, a bass, and a huge sound system, shook the rafters and rushed through my veins.  My hands almost instinctively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Boyfriend&#8217;s Back?</title>
		<link>http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Christine B. Whelan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband isn&#8217;t speaking to me. He isn&#8217;t speaking to anyone, really. He&#8217;s crushed by the Patriots defeat in last night&#8217;s SuperBowl.

  I&#8217;m not that chatty either, but not because I care one way or another about the Giants&#8217; upset last night. I&#8217;m just exhausted from hosting a big SuperBowl party, after a weekend [...]]]></description>
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