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		<title>Happy 4th of July!</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/happy-4th-of-july/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/happy-4th-of-july/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael J. Iafrate</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Iafrate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nationalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pro-Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, happy 4th of July! According to the calendar of the Church, July 4th&#8217;s real significance is that it is the feast day of St. Elizabeth of Portugal (1271-1336), a patron Saint of peacemakers.
The sad fact, however, is that if you were to attend Mass on this day, the chances of your priest mentioning this [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Michael J. Iafrate</media:title>
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		<title>Torture is a Moral Issue</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/torture-is-a-moral-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/torture-is-a-moral-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morning's Minion</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bishops]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Consequentialism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morning's Minion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[USCCB]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[War and Peace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the slogan of the National Religious Campiagn Against Torture, an umbrella organization of religious groups dedicated to ending US-sponsored torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Proclaiming that &#8221;torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear&#8221;, the campaign encompasses Catholics, evangelicals, other Protestants, Orthodox, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The British Empire</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/the-british-empire/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/the-british-empire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry Karlson</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eschatology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Henry Karlson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Henry Karlson</media:title>
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		<title>Edmund Burke&#8217;s Concept of Order</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/edmund-burkes-concept-of-order/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/edmund-burkes-concept-of-order/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanjones02</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previous: Edmund Burke’s Anti-Ideology 
Edmund Burke wrote against three schools of thought embodied by the French Revolution: the rationalism of Enlightenment philosophers, the romantic sentimentalism of Rousseau and his disciples, and utilitarianism. He knew himself to be contending against a “spirit of innovation possessed by of a recognizable general character.” The innovative spirits were: if [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">jonathanjones02</media:title>
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		<title>Canada Honors Morgentaler</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/canada-honors-morgentaler/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/03/canada-honors-morgentaler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.Z. Forrest</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Morgentaler is a Holocaust survivor.  After emigrating to Canada, he opened an illegal abortion clinic.  He was imprisoned and fined for his abortion activities.  Legal actions culiminated when the Supreme Court of Canada sided with him and asserted a right to abortion.  He is now the proprietor of many abortion clinics throughout Canada.  The Executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torturing Christopher Hitchens and Tales from China</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/more-on-bushs-torture-regime/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/more-on-bushs-torture-regime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morning's Minion</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Consequentialism]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve discussed before how incredibly awful the waterboarding torture technique truly is. As Malcolm Nance&#8211; former master instructor and chief of training at the U.S. Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School (SERE) in San Diego, California &#8212; noted: &#8220;Waterboarding is not a simulation. Unless you have been strapped down to the board, have endured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Authentic polygamist prairie dresses&#8221; for sale</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/authentic-polygamist-prairie-dresses-for-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/authentic-polygamist-prairie-dresses-for-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katerina Ivanovna</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Katerina Ivanovna]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who attempts to be a conscious consumer and avoids supporting clothing corporations that violate labor rights in their manufacturing facilities in the developing world, I am quite displeased&#8211;to say the least&#8211;with how the media has made fun of women from the FLDS community in the past couple of days.  It turns out [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Katerina Ivanovna</media:title>
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		<title>New papal encyclical is imminent</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/new-papal-encyclical-is-imminent/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/new-papal-encyclical-is-imminent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Policraticus</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Social Teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Policraticus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been anticipating this one for awhile, but it bears repeating that Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s next encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, is likely to be out this fall.  The Vatican&#8217;s Secretary of State, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, suggests that the Pope will not merely reiterate Catholic social teaching, but expand it to include Catholic reaction to [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Policraticus</media:title>
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		<title>Reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/reconciliation/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/02/reconciliation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.Z. Forrest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The priests of the Transalpine Redemptorists have been regularized.  They are directly crediting the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum in aiding their reconciliation.  Their offical website is here.
(HT: WDTPRS)
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		<title>Follow up: Catholics and Democrats</title>
		<link>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/01/follow-up-catholics-and-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://vox-nova.com/2008/07/01/follow-up-catholics-and-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathanjones02</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dialogue]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a previous post about his book, author Mark Stricherz makes the following points about changes within the Democratic Party, discovered as he researched:

1. The Democratic Catholic bosses of the post-war era were not, contra the conventional wisdom, passive observers on racial matters. They kept blacks in the Democratic coalition. The key figures [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">jonathanjones02</media:title>
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