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            <title><![CDATA[A Better Story Than “The Odyssey”]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the Odyssey has been highly prized, the Bible is invaluable. Over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament exist today, with the earliest surviving one dated to within 100 to 150 years of the original text. And the Bible remains the best-selling book—or rather, collection of books—of all time.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Case for More Latin at Mass]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[We are indeed a universal Church, and we need not always and everywhere speak the same language for that to be thoroughly, gloriously true. The barrier of language is not an oppressive wall. But a universal language allows us, even for a moment, to reach through that barrier and touch. Why not extend that moment of contact to our full hour of worship—that grand hour when heaven reaches down and touches Earth?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[You Can Be Covered and Still Immodest]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Victims of No-Fault Divorce]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It doesn’t matter how “stable” the divorce arrangement seems; divorce is inherently unstable. It robs children of their right to a present mother and father. And it’s always accompanied by major life changes that young children do not have the capacity to process.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Was Taylor Swift’s Marriage Valid?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How can we presume that they are really married? After all, it has become hip in some pastoral circles to say that huge percentages of marriages are actually invalid, due to some murky psychological defect in one or both parties. Don’t you have to know, I mean really know and deeply understand, what marriage is?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lamenting Anew the SSPX’s Grave Disobedience]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There is no doubt that other leaders in the Church—clerical and lay alike—are themselves in grave need of repentance and discipline, and yet the reality of their wrongdoing can neither justify nor excuse the SSPX’s own grave disobedience.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Come for Waffle House, Stay for the Church.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[And maybe that is one more thing our guests might discover here: an ancient Church still very much alive in the land of Buc-ee’s, Waffle House, red firetrucks, and seventy-one fla]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Saint Who Built California]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As we mark two hundred and fifty years, let us make room in our memory for this Catholic founding father of the West who planted the cross in California and helped prepare a corner of the republic before the republic even knew its name.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Went Inside the Mormon Temple]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As far as I could tell, there is no attempt at all to convey sacredness, that is, set-apartness from ordinary worldly experience. Rather, it’s a labyrinth of prosaic meeting spaces and comfy sitting zones: all deep carpeting, crushed velour, padded seats, mirrored walls, and gold-lamé bunting, ringed by shiny bronze and chrome accents and lit by prismatic crystal chandeliers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A “Brain-dead” Abortion Argument]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the case of true, total brain death, removing life support only allows the process of decomposition to continue. In contrast, every human embryo and human fetus is a living organism on a path of self-directed development that will continue unless meeting a fatal end. So while it is justified to allow the brain-dead to be dead, it is not justified to kill unborn children who are very much alive.]]></description>
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