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		<title>Have you found Jesus?</title>
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		<title>Pastor Calls For Starbucks Boycott Over Gay Marriage Support</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Christian pastor is asking customers to boycott Starbucks due to the company&#8217;s support of a bill to legalize gay marriage in Washington state, King 5 News reports.
&#8220;Christians are upset with Starbucks for turning against God&#8230;Starbucks can follow Satan if they want to,&#8221; Steven Andrew,  and evangelical pastor and president of the USA Christian... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/christian-pastor-calls-for-starbucks-boycott-over-gay-marriage-support/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top five regrets of the dying</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is &#8216;I wish I hadn&#8217;t worked so hard&#8217;. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? 
There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How atheism became a religion in all but name.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when it was very dangerous not to believe in God. In ancient Athens, Socrates was hounded and eventually executed for questioning the city-state’s gods. Throughout most of history, to be ‘godless’ was considered a form of moral decadence deserving punishment. In the seventeenth century, even John Locke, the great liberal philosopher... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/how-atheism-became-a-religion-in-all-but-name-2/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Theologians struggle to tie together roles in church, academia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duquesne University Professor George Worgul remembers well a conversation he had with Cardinal Donald Wuerl in 1989.
The professor had just been appointed chair of the theology department at Pittsburgh&#8217;s largest Catholic university. Then-Bishop Wuerl had taken the reins of the diocese the year before. Worgul says the bishop reached out to talk about how bishops... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/theologians-struggle-to-tie-together-roles-in-church-academia/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul VI’s superb, beautiful theology remains as powerful as ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was there a particular highlight for you in the Christmas liturgies?
One  reading, from the office of Readings for the Feast of the Holy Family,  is a great favourite of mine. It is a translation of part of a speech  given by Paul VI on the occasion of his visit to Nazareth on... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/paul-vi%e2%80%99s-superb-beautiful-theology-remains-as-powerful-as-ever/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Americans wear religion on their sleeves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, “Saturday Night Live” aired a sketch referencing  the Denver Broncos’ win over the Chicago Bears in overtime on December  11. Denver’s quarterback, Tim Tebow, led his team to a miraculous  victory, which he credited to God.
In the sketch, Jesus, played by cast member Jason Sudeikis, comes to  the... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/why-do-americans-wear-religion-on-their-sleeves/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>China to ordain Vatican-approved bishop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP) — China plans to ordain a pope-approved bishop Wednesday, but the Vatican and the Chinese government-controlled Catholic church are fighting over the guest list.
The ordination of Peter Luo Xuegang as coadjutor bishop of Yibin diocese has the blessing of the Vatican, a recent point of agreement in its decades-long rift with the state-backed... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/china-to-ordain-vatican-approved-bishop/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christian volunteers are signs of God&#8217;s love, pope says</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY (CNS) &#8212; Through volunteer work, Christians become signs of God&#8217;s love in the world, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Especially at a time of serious economic crisis, moral uncertainty and social tension, Christian volunteers show &#8220;that goodness exists and that it is growing in our midst,&#8221; the pope said Nov. 11 in a speech to... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/christian-volunteers-are-signs-of-gods-love-pope-says/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Theology of Physics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout human history, cosmology and theology have gone together: A sense of how the universe works as a physical system has suggested ideas about the meaning of life. Unfortunately, for most of that time, our ideas about cosmology have been extraordinarily wrong. If we used modern science as the basis for a theology, what would... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/the-theology-of-physics/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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