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	<description>Daniel O'Rourke is a married Catholic priest. He's a newspaper columnist for the Observer in Dunkirk, New York. A frequent church speaker, he is also a registered healer and trained mediator.</description>
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		<title>Labeling Can be Dangerous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labeling is describing a group or entity using a general word or phrase.  It can be helpful and we need labels to think efficiently, but labeling is also dangerous and hurtful – especially when we label people. But even when we label things or conditions, it can be puzzling. &#160; Labeling is related to stereotyping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Eight O</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 31st last year, I turned eighty-years-old.  Back in 1931 when taxes were lower and not a raging national issue; I was a tax exemption for my parents. &#160; I was born with the blue baby syndrome and they feared I was going to die.  The birth was in a Catholic hospital, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If The Wise Men Were Women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Fully Human]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after Thanksgiving, when Christmas decorations were already in the stores and Christmas merchandise crowding the shelves, my twelve-year-old granddaughter with a twinkle in her eye asked me, “Grandpa, what if the Christmas wise men were women?” &#160; I pleaded ignorance and she was quick to tell me, “They would have asked directions.  They would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Not UP There, God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alcoholics Anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blase Pascal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darrell Hammond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Daley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meister Eckart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature of God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Tillich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolph Otto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Non-believing readers won’t like this column.  It will be far too spiritual for them.  There is no political red meat, but some of them would like the Darrell Hammond book that prompted the column. His book is a ribald, smutty, foul mouthed and often-hilarious look inside the troubled life and mind of this Saturday Night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Thanks For Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan O&#39;Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Ozik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving for life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiny Buddha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Hunger Grace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously, thanksgiving means giving thanks.  On Thanksgiving Day we typically give thanks for the harvest, for the food before us, for our families and friends.   Of course we should continue being thankful for all that. In past columns on this feast day, I have often advised us to do so. &#160; I have suggested also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Things That Count Cannot Be Counted</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan O&#39;Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Betrand Russell on Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalai Lama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Einstein on Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark 8:36]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marya Mannes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moses Maimonides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports Statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Albert Einstein loved wordplay.  He once wrote on a classroom blackboard at Princeton, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” &#160; Our society counts a lot.  It counts votes, mortgage rates and interest rates, the values of cars and trade-ins, sales (for stuff we don’t need), lawyer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King &#8211; A Prophet Still</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan O&#39;Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Colman McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost of Afghan War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Memorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King's Sermon at Riverside Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan and Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petraeus on Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, October 16, President and Michelle Obama, the King family, elderly civil rights leaders, and the nation dedicated the Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC.  Many have criticized the memorial and for many reasons: the Chinese artist who designed it, the stoic, serious, staid depiction of the assassinated leader, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both/And or Either/Or?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan O&#39;Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Certitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Tension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loving-Kindness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Naked Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Max Born, the Nobel Prize physicist and mathematician said, &#8220;The belief that there is only one truth and that one is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil in the world.&#8221;  The English Clergyman Robert Burton said it more dramatically, “Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love or Luv?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan O&#39;Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1 Cor.13]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Watson Howe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Fromm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fran Lebowitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fulton Sheen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lasting Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rollo May]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rosseau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Dalai Lama tells us, “Without love we could not survive.  Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.”  There is, however, much confusion about love and its text message spelling: LUV. &#160; This confusion is evident in the recording of musician and actress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell or Heck?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan O&#39;Rourke</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[" FEMA Director Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Make Your Mom Proud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hell or Heck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxine Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wardrobe Malfunction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in warning state residents as Hurricane Irene barreled up the East Coast towards his state did not sugarcoat his words.  “I saw some of the news feeds … of people sitting on the beach in Asbury Park.  Get the hell off the beach in Asbury Park and get out.” &#160; [...]]]></description>
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