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		<title>So long Easter, and thanks for the 50 days; I needed them</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/05/20/so-long-easter-and-thanks-for-the-50-days-i-needed-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Montrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Great and glorious God, my Lord Jesus Christ! I implore thee to enlighten me and to disperse the darkness of my soul! Give me true faith and firm hope and a perfect charity! Grant me, O Lord, to know thee so well that in all things I may act by thy light, and in accordance [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4056&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal City</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Sengstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly seven years ago, I packed a big black bag, boarded my first-ever airplane, and flew to Europe with a friend. I hyperventilated, sure I would drown somewhere in the Atlantic. I didn&#8217;t. Our trip lasted three weeks. We picked up more friends as we moved from Rome to Paris, from Burgundy to Dublin. But [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4054&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholicism: The Basement in My House of Faith</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/05/07/catholicism-the-basement-in-my-house-of-faith/</link>
		<comments>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/05/07/catholicism-the-basement-in-my-house-of-faith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 14:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lacey Louwagie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my last post, I received a question that&#8217;s fairly common when it comes to my dissatisfaction with the Church: Why do you stay? I&#8217;ve been attending a UCC church for over a year now, so the easy answer to that question would be, &#8220;I don&#8217;t.&#8221; Of course, it&#8217;s not as simple as that, which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4049&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nameless in the name of God</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/05/06/nameless-in-the-name-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 04:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Sengstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s April 25 blog post is entitled &#8220;All Are Welcome!&#8221; But the irony in the New York archbishop’s already-infamous reflection is that all are really not welcome in his Catholic Church. Unless, like the grammar-school Timothy and his boyhood chum Freddie, we remember to “wash our hands” before joining the family for dinner. Dolan lists six categories [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4047&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Francis and John</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/26/francis-and-john/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Sengstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago at work, I took a call from someone who wanted to know what I personally thought of Pope Francis. I knew what she meant. She didn&#8217;t mean what I think of him in general. She meant what I think of him now. Now, because Francis recently reaffirmed the Vatican &#8220;reform&#8221; of the Leadership [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4038&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>to Boston, from Virginia, with love</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/25/to-boston-from-virginia-with-love/</link>
		<comments>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/25/to-boston-from-virginia-with-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rhonda80</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all of us who love Boston, and who have at some point in life called that city home, last week was a difficult one.  Like so many others, after hearing the news on the radio Monday afternoon, I began contacting friends in the Boston area, and each of them had their own story.  One [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4033&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catholicism: Are You In or Out?</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/23/catholicism-are-you-in-or-out/</link>
		<comments>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/23/catholicism-are-you-in-or-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lacey Louwagie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just left a phenomenal gathering of activists, clergy, social workers, researchers, and other experts sponsored by the Religious Institute to put together a guidebook about how spiritual communities might provide pastoral care to bisexual people (and others who don&#8217;t easily fall within a straight/gay binary). At one point, we were asked to write down [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4031&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rebels for Jesus</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/14/rebels-for-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Montrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post first appeared on Pax Christi Southwest Florida&#8217;s site. &#8220;Nonviolence does not mean non-action. Nonviolence means we act with love and compassion.&#8221; &#8211; Thich Nhat Hanh A little bit of rebellion goes a long way. Just ask the apostles. In this Sunday&#8217;s first reading, the twelve appear before an angry (and nervous) Sanhedrin. The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4012&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity (Things I learned from my kids)</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/13/simplicity-things-i-learned-from-my-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 01:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Montrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We live in a world that celebrates superficial beauty and rejects ugly, yet God sees beauty in all of us despite our ugliness. Jesus loves us just the way we are.&#8221; - Pastor Jamie Stilson, Vineyard Community Church of Cape Coral (Fla.) Today was the first &#8220;summer&#8221; day for the kids.* We broke out the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=4007&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Implicit Bias, and Doing vs. Being</title>
		<link>http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2013/04/09/implicit-bias-and-doing-vs-being/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lacey Louwagie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I took an implicit bias test as part of my homework in a Know Thyself class I&#8217;m taking through Coursera. The test was designed to explore a theory that much of our mind&#8217;s workings are totally unconscious, and not even possible for us to access, even though they still influence our actions. In [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=youngadultcatholics-blog.com&#038;blog=3208501&#038;post=3998&#038;subd=youngadultcatholics&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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