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		<title>On Forgiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Caspar Star-Tribune in Sheridan, Wyoming ran a front-page story on Sunday dealing with forgiveness.  Writer Kristy Gray tells the story of Fr. Rob Spaulding, a priest of their diocese, who when in seminary, wrecked a car after a night of drinking.  Two people ended up dying in that crash, including my friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the sex abuse scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really didn’t want to write this post, but the worldwide clergy sex abuse scandal doesn’t show any signs of going away.  In the Sunday bulletin at my local parish, there was a blurb about charges made against a priest who was an associate at the parish less than a decade ago, asking anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=157</link>
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		<title>On remodeling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons that I haven&#8217;t been posting much on WhollyRoaminCatholic is because I have a new project on my plate.  I&#8217;ve been remodeling the bathroom of the WRC estate.
 I grew up in the family plumbing business and have been working around construction from the time I was about 13 years old. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=146</link>
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		<title>On the process of Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re a couple weeks into Lent, the process of spiritual cleansing and denial that prepares us for Easter.  How are those Lenten resolutions coming, gentle reader?
I made 3 resolutions for myself:
(1) keep a fast for Lent
(2) adding at least an hour of Mass or adoration per week
(3) making a donation to a worthy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=139</link>
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		<title>On Lenten Fare, by the Kansas Catholic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago, The Kansas City Catholic (now known as the Kansas Catholic, having taken his soul on the road to parts elsewhere in my great state) crafted a delightful exchange between churches on the nature of Ash Wednesday and Lent.  The original is at http://kansascatholic.blogspot.com/2009/02/lenten-fare.html, and is reproduced here below.




























































































Have a blessed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Ash Wednesday.  It&#8217;s not actually a Holy Day of Obligation, but most people treat is like it is.  The churches will be packed today.  People who haven&#8217;t been to Mass since Christmas will go to church Ash Wednesday.  Church regulars will grumble that the intermittent-Catholics are taking all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>On Saint Valentine</title>
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Last week I joined a Facebook group called “Keep the ‘Saint’ in St. Valentine’s Day”.  For many years now, it’s been trendy for curmudgeons like myself to say that people need to “Keep Christ in Christmas” or even “Keep Mass in Christmas”.  And I know some people who bemoan the drunken slobber of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=115</link>
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		<title>On Holy Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I gave some friends of mine a little bottle of holy water as a present on the anniversary of their son’s (my Godson’s) baptism.  They said they appreciated the gift, but looked at me blankly as to what to do with the water.  I stammered out that people use it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=101</link>
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		<title>On staying in touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello!  Did you think I forgot about you, gentle reader?  Rest assured; I did not.
My attention has been divided lately while embarking on a new career and vocation.  And I hope you’ll excuse my absence.  I’ve been pouring pretty much all of my time into that effort.
WhollyRoaminCatholic.com has been a (sporadic) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=93</link>
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		<title>On the birth of Jesus, the Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the five-thousand, one-hundred and ninety-ninth year from the creation of the world;
In the two-thousand, nine-hundred and fifty-ninth year from the great flood;
In the two-thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham;
In the one-thousand, five-hundred and tenth year from the going forth of the people of Israel out of Egypt under Moses;
In the one-thousand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whollyroamincatholic.com/?p=78</link>
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