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		<title>Jesus alone is source of life and peace</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monsignor Owen F. Campion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mk 1:40-45
The first reading for this weekend comes from the Book of Leviticus. In sequence, Leviticus is the fourth book in modern translations of the Bible. As such, it is part of the Pentateuch. The Pentateuch includes the five books of the Bible attributed to Moses.
These five books are the Torah.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Ad limina’ visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this column prior to my departure on February 7th for my first ad limina visit to Rome. Bishop D’Arcy and I will be joining our brother bishops from Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin for this ten-day visit to the Vatican. The ad limina visit is an obligation of diocesan bishops and has three purposes: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We can fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theresa A. Thomas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My 21-year-old daughter, a college student studying abroad called from her destination, and shared her first view and impression of Europe.
“I was sipping my coffee and eating a croissant as the plane approached London,” she whispered to me over the phone quickly, “we were not allowed to land right away so we were circling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serve as Jesus serves</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monsignor Owen F. Campion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mk 1:29-39
The Book of Job is the source of this weekend’s first reading. This book furnishes few details about the identity of Job.
It nonetheless is one of the great literary works in the Old Testament, and one of the best remembered if not always exactly remembered.
Misreading Job has led to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unprecedented attack on our religious liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, January 20th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that almost all employers, including Catholic employers, will be forced to offer their employees health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception. Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those “services” in the health policies they write. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paul preached and baptized converts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is Crete where St. Paul’s ship was caught in a hurricane?
St. Paul was continuing his journey by ship from Jerusalem to Rome when he encountered a hurricane and unexpectedly had to land at the Greek island of Crete (or Kriti). Crete is the largest of the Greek islands in the eastern Mediterranean Sea southeast of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The consecrated life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blessed John Paul II wrote: “The consecrated life, deeply rooted in the example and teaching of Christ the Lord, is a gift of God the Father to his Church through the Holy Spirit.”
This coming week, we give thanks in a special way for the gift of consecrated life as we celebrate the World Day for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus rescues us from sin and points the way to holiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monsignor Owen F. Campion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mk 1:21-28
The Book of Deuteronomy furnishes the first reading for this weekend. Deuteronomy appears in modern Bibles as the fifth book in sequence in the Old Testament. It is one of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament, all of them attributed to Moses.
In this reading, Moses addresses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty-fifth anniversary of Priestly Ordination</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bishop John M. D'Arcy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few days I will observe 55 years as a priest. The ordination in my seminary in those years took place on Feb. 2, 1957, the day the Church commemorates that moment when Mary brought her Child to the temple in observance of the Jewish law.
I am struck about how I remember almost every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seminary visits and March for Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I am traveling east for a number of engagements. On Thursday, January 19th, I will be traveling to the Pontifical College Josephinum, one of the seminaries where our diocese sends men for their priestly formation. It is a good opportunity not only to meet with the seminary rector and formation team about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where have all the vocations gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sister Margie Lavonis, CSC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The shortage of priests and religious men and women in the Church, particularly in Europe and North America, is common these days. Many international congregations like my own, the Sisters of the Holy Cross, are still getting new members, but in countries other than the United States. Many consider it a crisis.
Too often when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pausing between the past and future</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fhogan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kay Cozad]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As this New Year approached I was delighted to receive an email from an old friend. Mel and I made up the long arms of a trio of women who had been friends for over a decade. Our friendships ran deep and intense from the very beginning as the three of us bonded over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We have a choice to accept salvation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monsignor Owen F. Campion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mk 1:14-20
The first reading for this weekend is from the Book of Jonah, an Old Testament writing seldom presented in the liturgy. While Jonah is the central figure in this book, he was not the author. The author is unknown. Scholars believe that the Book of Jonah was written sometime after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow Christ for true life and peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jn 1:35-42
The First Book of Samuel is the source of the first reading for this weekend. Originally, First and Second Samuel were one volume. At some point in history, an editor divided them into the two volumes, and two volumes appear in Bible translations today.
As the title of these books implies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. John warns Laodiceans of lukewarm spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the church of Laodicea to whom St. John wrote a letter?
St. John the Apostle wrote a letter to the church of Laodicea in ancient Asia Minor (modern Turkey) that is found in the New Testament Book of Revelation. St. John complains that the Laodiceans are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Praying for the unity of Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week begins the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, an annual observance in which Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants, all of us brothers and sisters in Christ through our common baptism, pray for the restoration of perfect unity among Christians. We pray, in the power of the Holy Spirit, that divisions among Christians will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christina’s hand rested on her belly. Just an hour before, it had been full with baby Ethan.
Now Ethan lay sleeping peacefully on the hospital bed beside her, swaddled in a light cotton receiving blanket. His shallow breaths caused an up-and-down movement of his perfect little chest, and his ruddy face seemed peaceful and full of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God will guide us to Himself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Monsignor Owen F. Campion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord
Mt 2:1-12
This weekend the Church celebrates the ancient feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, commemorating, and reflecting upon, the visit of Magi “from the East” to the crib side of the newborn Savior.
For the first reading, the Church presents a passage from the third and last section of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Epiphany of the Lord</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blessed and happy New Year to all! During these days, the Church continues to celebrate the wonderful season of Christmas. The Christmas season officially ends on the Solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord, which is celebrated this year on Monday, January 9th.
This Sunday, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany, the manifestation of Jesus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midnight Mass Homily</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 25, 2011
What a contrast! The great emperor Caesar Augustus, the most powerful man of that age, the ruler of the vast Roman emperor, gives and order and everyone has to obey. Throughout his empire, everyone had to get themselves enrolled in the tax registers, so that there would be enough taxes collected to finance [...]]]></description>
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