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		<title>Sports and scandal: Religious comparisons and complaints</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports, at the professional and amateur levels, are enormously popular, and yet athletics are also linked to scandal and controversy in today’s headlines. In the case of allegations of child abuse, the crisis in sports recalls the problem in organized religions, and also highlights the nexus between religion and sports.]]></description>
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		<title>Clergy sex abuse update: Bishops meet, review policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Clergy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation's Roman Catholic bishops met in June in Seattle to revise policies approved nearly a decade ago in response to the clergy sexual-abuse crisis. Many argue that recent developments show the bishops have even more work to do.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jack Kevorkian dies, and the end-of-life debate is revived</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a former pathologist who helped dozens of terminally ill people die with a suicide machine, has renewed a national debate on end-of-life issues that never went away completely, even after Kevorkian was sentenced to prison in 1999.]]></description>
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		<title>The fate of frozen embryos sparks intense debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popularity of in-vitro fertilization and other procedures that require the creation of multiple embryos has resulted in an excess of frozen embryos, as many as 500,000. What to do with them, and whether couples can "adopt" them to gestate them to birth, is an ethical conundrum and a matter of intense debate.

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		<title>World Cup, global religion: Resources on ‘football’ and faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 World Cup will conclude on July 11, but not before observers offer up numerous analogies between soccer and religion. ReligionLink has a running tally of stories and resources for reporters looking for an angle on the tournament in South Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XVI and the clergy abuse crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Pope Benedict XVI entered the sixth year of his papacy, the pontiff came under increasing scrutiny and intense criticism over his approach to revelations of sexual abuse by clergy. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pope addresses economic crisis in new encyclical</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_090702.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI released his third encyclical, &#8220;Caritas in Veritate,&#8221; on Tuesday, July 7. The encyclical &#8212; an authoritative teaching document from the pope &#8212; applies Benedict&#8217;s ideas and the Catholic social justice tradition to the economic crisis. It also comes out as the G-8 summit convenes in Italy. On Friday, July 10, the pope [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The growing appeal of the mother of Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_071217.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Doctrine & practice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, but it is also the holiday in which his mother, Mary, has her most prominent role. In the Christmas story, the pregnant Mary and her husband, Joseph, must travel by donkey from Galilee in the north to Jerusalem, and she gives birth in a stable in nearby Bethlehem — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fallout: the pope and Islam</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/tip_060920.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith leaders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fallout over Pope Benedict XVI’s comments on Islam and violence during a Sept. 12, 2006, lecture in Germany may have done serious damage to relations between the Catholic Church and global Islam, in addition to inflaming tensions between Muslims and Christians of every denomination. The story could grow more complex in the coming weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Catholics swing back to the Democrats?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2006]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004 Catholic voters did what not long before would have been considered political heresy: They supported a Republican for president over a Democrat, and an evangelical Protestant, no less, over the first Catholic presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy in 1960. Moreover, Catholics&#8217; preference for George W. Bush over John Kerry &#8211; 52 percent [...]]]></description>
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