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Good grief, I totally forgot to tell you! Don\u2019t ask me how, why, or how, but they asked me to give a presentation at one of the break-out sessions of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in 2015. My fellow Catholic Patheosi Diana von Glahn and Greg Popcak will be there, too! Look, I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"featured_media":14112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,212,827],"class_list":["post-14111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pope-francis","tag-speaking","tag-world-meeting-of-families"],"yoast_head":"\n
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