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	<description>The wisdom of St. Francis de Sales applied to contemporary issues: a dialogue with the Salesian Center for Faith &#38; Culture</description>
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		<title>&#8220;If truth evolves there is no answer!&#8221; 11 May 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In announcing his newfound affirmation that same-sex couples should be able to get married, President Obama highlighted the fact that his personal position is “constantly evolving.” More aptly, it’s a position that is “revolving” … as in turning completely around or even upside down. Evolution is a gradual development, along successive lines; revolution is overturning,…]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nonjudgmentalism and Lack of Leadership&#8221; 30 March 2012</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2012/03/nonjudgmentalism-and-lack-of-leadership-30-march-2012-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2012/03/nonjudgmentalism-and-lack-of-leadership-30-march-2012-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Murray’s book Coming Apart:The State of White America 1960-2010 compares the community of Belmont which is upper middle class, family life strong and honored, voluntary social service esteemed and streets that are relatively crime free with the nearby working class community of Fishtown where unemployment and family breakdown are prevalent. Despite the many admirable…]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Missing the Point&#8221; 12 February 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news continues to swirl around the Health &#38; Human Services mandate that all employers, including religiously-affiliated ones, offer health insurance that provides free access to sterilization, contraception, and abortion-inducing drugs.  With yesterday’s announcement of President Obama’s “accommodation” to religious objectors, the latest iteration in the news cycle purports a division in the Catholic response/position…]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spirituality of Work: A Salesian-Oblate Perspective&#8221; 30 January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ministering diligently to the Visitandines and the people in the highly industrialized city of Troyes, France, Fr. Louis Brisson (1817-1908) was acutely aware of the plight of the working class, especially the young women working in the textile factories. He sought to give them some relief from their burdensome jobs by providing clubs or shelters…]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Resolutions and Resoluteness&#8221; 31 December 2011</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2012/01/resolutions-and-resoluteness-31-december-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2012/01/resolutions-and-resoluteness-31-december-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of ringing in a New Year, the media provides numerous suggestions on how to make effective resolutions, ones that are practical and doable. A series of short videos readily available online treat such subjects as Balance, Making Time, Losing Weight and Financial Matters offer some worth while and common sense approaches on these matters.…]]></description>
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		<title>“The Mystery of the Gift” 15 December 2011</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/12/%e2%80%9cthe-mystery-of-the-gift%e2%80%9d-15-december-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One child prayed: Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother but what I asked for was a puppy. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.” Joyce. And another child prayed: “Dear God, I do not think anybody could be a better God than you. Well, I just want you to…]]></description>
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		<title>“Sentire Cum Ecclesia”: A Salesian Perspective 28 November 2011</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/%e2%80%9csentire-cum-ecclesia%e2%80%9d-a-salesian-perspective-28-november-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the translation of the new Roman missal goes into effect, it will no doubt cause some consternation because of its unfamiliarity and what might appear to some to be awkward and stilted English. It is at such times as this when our faith appears to be tested that the expression “sentire cum Ecclesia” –…]]></description>
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		<title>School Choice Topic of Ethics Breakfast</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/school-choice-topic-of-ethics-breakfast/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/school-choice-topic-of-ethics-breakfast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Forum for Ethics in the Workplace will host an ethics breakfast at 7 a.m., Thursday, December 1, 2011, in the University Center on the DeSales campus in Center Valley. The event is titled, &#8220;Vouching for Our Students: Is School Choice the Right Formula?&#8221; featuring guest speakers, Thomas Gentzel, executive director of the Pennsylvania School…]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Tolerance and Toleration&#8221; 10 November 2011</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/tolerance-and-toleration-10-november-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/tolerance-and-toleration-10-november-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/?p=293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The events unfolding on the main campus of Penn State University are a good study on the limits of tolerance. The Board of Trustees acted decisively and promptly to oust its highly regarded president and its legendary football coach, obviously intolerant of the way they behaved with regard to reported child molestation by a former…]]></description>
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		<title>Baranzano Society on Bioethics public forum</title>
		<link>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/baranzano-society-on-bioethics-public-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.desales.edu/salesiancenter/2011/11/baranzano-society-on-bioethics-public-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baranzano Society on Bioethics will host an open forum discussing the issues involved with out-of-hospital DNR’s (do not resuscitate) and physician’s orders or medical orders for life sustaining treatments (P.O.L.S.T. / M.O.L.S.T.) with guest speakers, Everitt Binns, Ph.D., executive director and CEO of the Eastern PA Emergency Management Services (EMS) Council; Cindy Umbrell, RN,…]]></description>
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