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	<title>Return to Rome</title>
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	<description>Francis J. Beckwith&#039;s Reflections on Faith, Ethics and Culture</description>
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		<title>Ash Wednesday at Baylor</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/ash-wednesday-at-baylor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many reasons I love Baylor. Here&#8217;s an announcement that is on the Baylor website: Ash Wednesday worship service Feb. 20, 2012 On February 22nd, there will be an Ash Wednesday service in Miller Chapel at 12:20. For centuries, Christians have observed Ash Wednesday on the first day of the Lenten season, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Social Thought and the HHS Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of my most recent piece at The Catholic Thing.  Here&#8217;s how it begins: As almost everyone on earth now knows, Professor Obama has offered his “compromise” to the HHS regulations that require that all employers, including most religious employers, that provide health insurance to their employees must include coverage of contraception, sterilization, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contraception and Catholicism: What the Church Really Teaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[bioethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of a piece authored by University of South Carolina philosopher, Christopher Tollefsen, who this year is serving as a Visiting Fellow in the James Program at Princeton University. The essay published this morning on National Review Online. Here&#8217;s how it begins: Catholic teaching on contraception is at the heart of the controversy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read All About It!: President Obama to exempt religious organizations..[+Update]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francisbeckwith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from the list of tax-exempt non-profits that a citizen can work for in order to have the government forgive the student&#8217;s college loan. Read all about in the Washington Post On Faith blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: Are clergy and teachers of religious faith/thought public servants? Is their work on par with that of others who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Anti-Sharia Laws</title>
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		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/the-dangers-of-anti-sharia-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francisbeckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the title of a well-reasoned article published in the March 2012 issue of First Things.  Authored by the University of St. Thomas Law School professor Robert K. Vischer, here&#8217;s how it begins: The law in several states now requires pro-life pharmacists to dispense the morning-after pill, Christian adoption agencies to place children with same-sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal: Birth-Control Mandate: Unconstitutional and Illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Rivkin and Ed Whelan write in the Wall Street Journal (15 February 2012): Last Friday, the White House announced that it would revise the controversial ObamaCare birth-control mandate to address religious-liberty concerns. Its proposed modifications are a farce. The Department of Health and Human Services would still require employers with religious objections to select [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Key Questions that Unlock the HHS &#8220;compromise&#8221; debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francisbeckwith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do religious-based organizations, such as Catholic hospitals and universities, and businesses owned by devout religious believers including Catholics, Evangelicals, Orthodox Jews, and Muslims, have the right under Obamacare to negotiate an agreement with an insurance company so that the insurance policy the employer offers to its employees does not include contraception, abortion, sterilization, etc.? Does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Not to Do Wrong and the Politics of Ruse: Matthew Franck on the HHS &#8220;accommodation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/the-right-not-to-do-wrong-and-the-politics-of-ruse-matthew-franck-on-the-hhs-accommodation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/the-right-not-to-do-wrong-and-the-politics-of-ruse-matthew-franck-on-the-hhs-accommodation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>francisbeckwith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Public Discourse, Matthew J. Franck, the Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution of the Witherspoon Institute, has published a clear and informative account of why President Obama&#8217;s HHS accommodation is deeply flawed. What I like about Franck&#8217;s essay is that he addresses some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS mandate UNACCEPTABLE!: list of signatories grows on the Snead, Glendon, George, Garvey, and Levin letter</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/hhs-mandate-unacceptable-list-of-signatories-grows-on-the-snead-glendon-george-garvey-and-levin-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/hhs-mandate-unacceptable-list-of-signatories-grows-on-the-snead-glendon-george-garvey-and-levin-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(HT: K-Lo at NRO) I mentioned, and republished, this letter two days ago on this blog when it contained only the signatures of its original signatories.  The Becket Fund has now published the letter as a pdf online.  You can get it here. But, as my fellow patheos blogger K-Lo states, &#8220;keep an eye here &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop Chaput: &#8220;HHS mandate insulting and dangerous&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/returntorome/2012/02/archbishop-chaput-hhs-mandate-insulting-and-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia had this to say in this morning&#8217;s Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused on Jan. 20 to broaden the exception to its mandate that nearly all Catholic employers must cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their health-care plans. An &#8220;accommodation&#8221; offered Friday by the [...]]]></description>
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