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		<title>Arthur Blavat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Obituaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Funeral services and Mass of Christian Burial for Arthur A. Blavat, 71, will be at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, at St. Anthony Catholic Church, 417 Main St., Davenport. Burial will be at the National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal with Military Rites conducted by the Vietnam Veterans of America Post #299.  Visitation will <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/arthur-blavat/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Focusing on faith-based, lifelong learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been honored to lead St. James Catholic School in its 135th year of education in the Washington community.  Our priority is to continue to provide a solid education rooted in the Catholic tradition while maintaining a small school setting.  St. James is committed to an overall student to teacher ratio of 15:1.  This <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/focusing-on-faith-based-lifelong-learning/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Academics, faith, friends stand out for St. James students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School staff chose essays by sixth-graders Sarah Nacos and Allison Vogel that were read at the graduation Mass May 19. Following are excerpts from their essays, titled “What St. James School Means to Me.” Sarah Nacos: “When asked the question, what St. James means to me, several things come to mind. But there are three <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/academics-faith-friends-stand-out-for-st-james-students/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>From the mouths of babes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each week in the Knightly News, the St. James School newsletter, Principal Teresa Beenblossom tries to add children’s quotes. Below are some of the school’s favorites. • A prekindergarten student had been struggling in the afternoons as she was missing her parents.  Mrs. Monika Chalupa said the student could “think happy thoughts.” The little girl <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/from-the-mouths-of-babes/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>St. James School photos from the 2011-12 school year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Military service becomes a ‘job’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Frank Wessling Our national concern about jobs is affecting the way we think. Everything begins to look like a “job” when that word is used like a mantra in our politics. But some activities, some of the most important, like motherhood and fatherhood, are not jobs. They engage the whole person and can’t be <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/military-service-becomes-a-job/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>More on Natural Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fr. Bud Grant Last month I tried to show that while Natural Law asserts universal and necessary moral principles, it does not necessarily lead all people to the same specific moral practices. I hope to show how this is not a contradiction. First, however, we must define “law.” Thomas says that it is “a <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/more-on-natural-law/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Europeans on the left are more religious</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Frank Wessling Another recent news story had a surprise of a different kind. England’s Catholic weekly, The Tablet of London, reported this: “People who believe in God are more likely to be politically left wing and ‘progressive’ than those of no faith.” If that sounds so strange as to be false, it’s because we <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/europeans-on-the-left-are-more-religious/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, bishop, for crafting a solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Letters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor: Dear Bishop Martin Amos, I want to express my deep gratitude for your efforts to work with the Eychaner Foundation to reach a mutually agreeable resolution for a difficult pastoral situation. Keaton Fuller, a gay student and graduating senior at Prince of Peace Catholic School, Clinton, Iowa, had been awarded a $40,000 <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/thanks-bishop-for-crafting-a-solution/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring the ‘Five Black Crows’ who ministered to students</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Alta Cook Recently, The Catholic Messenger reported that the former St. Thomas More Parish Center, 108 McLean St., Iowa City, had been sold to Frantz-Hobart Management of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for $450,000. This historic Tudor building, originally a Psi Omega dental fraternity house, was purchased for $25,000 under the leadership of Bishop Henry Rohlman <a href='http://www.catholicmessenger.net/2012/05/honoring-the-five-black-crows-who-ministered-to-students/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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