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	<title>Crikey &#187; Catholic Church</title>
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		<title>Sex, lies and nothing proved: Xenophon v the Church</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/s-x-lies-and-nothing-proved-xenophon-v-the-church/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/29/s-x-lies-and-nothing-proved-xenophon-v-the-church/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sex, lies and now the Catholic Church has released the findings of a protracted investigation into a r-pe allegation, writes <b>Des Ryan</b> of <a href="http://www.indaily.com.au/" target="_blank"><em>InDaily</em></a>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Climate scientists slam George Pell&#8217;s &#8216;utter rubbish&#8217; claims</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/28/climate-scientists-slam-george-pells-utter-rubbish-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/28/climate-scientists-slam-george-pells-utter-rubbish-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardinal pell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate deniers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george pell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leading climate change researchers have launched a scathing attack on a speech delivered this week by Cardinal George Pell, describing it as "dreadful", "utter rubbish" and "flawed"., writes <b>Graham Readfearn</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>190</slash:comments>
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		<title>How do Catholic clubs defend their anti-pokies reform position?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/03/how-do-catholic-clubs-defend-their-anti-pokies-reform-position/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/03/how-do-catholic-clubs-defend-their-anti-pokies-reform-position/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Wilike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrwe Wilkie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clubs Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clubs NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's un-Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-commitment for pokies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gambling industry is up in arms about the Gillard government’s proposed poker machine reforms. Clubs NSW is leading the charge but what about the Catholic clubs? asks gambling-reform blogger <b>Tom Cummings</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>In naming a priest accused, Xenophon has gone too far</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/14/nick-xenophon-names-catholic-priest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/14/nick-xenophon-names-catholic-priest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246823</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon's underlying compassion for the downtrodden and the abused has never seriously been questioned. But in naming a priest accused -- without proof -- of rape he has gone too far, writes <b>Des Ryan</b> of <a href="http://www.indaily.com.au" target="_blank"><em>InDaily</em></a>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sacked bishop speaks out: Pope made a mistake, controls with fear</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/04/sacked-bishop-speaks-out-pope-made-a-mistake-controls-with-fear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/04/sacked-bishop-speaks-out-pope-made-a-mistake-controls-with-fear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[QLD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishop William Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clergy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Bishop William Morris says Pope Benedict XVI has "made a mistake" in forcing him to resign as Bishop of the diocese of Toowoomba. And there are questions about his role in speaking up for s-x-abuse victims, writes <b>Amanda Gearing</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Exercise, religiously</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/08/daily-proposition-exercise-religiously/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/08/daily-proposition-exercise-religiously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Proposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gyms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's something very Catholic church about the gym. If you don't fancy yourself the exercising type have no fear, says <b>Alexandra Patrikios</b> -- just have a little faith.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The topless Vatican dancers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/16/vatican/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/16/vatican/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed video.  Watch a recent performance at the Vatican, where male dancers in tight white pants take off their jackets and perform an acrobatic routine topless to Pope Benedict XVI. The nuns wave excitedly and take photos.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The other Catholic Church</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/condom-conversion-validates-catholic-action-on-the-front-line-20101122-1844a.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/condom-conversion-validates-catholic-action-on-the-front-line-20101122-1844a.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[condom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=187899</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's the Catholic Church that hogs the headlines, covers up sex-abuse claims and fights against condom-use. And then there's the Catholic Church full of nuns caring for HIV patients in forgotten villages across the globe, writes <b>Jo Chandler</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Christians under attack from homosexuals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/11/18/christians-under-attack-from-homosexuals/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/11/18/christians-under-attack-from-homosexuals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giacomo Biffi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's bemusing that a Cardinal of the Catholic Church under attack for child abuse of a homosexual kind chooses to attack the gay rights movement but that is what Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, the retired archbishop of Bologna, has chosen to do, explains <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>There&#8217;s something about Mary, but what about the other holy five?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/theres-something-about-mary-but-what-about-the-other-holy-five/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/theres-something-about-mary-but-what-about-the-other-holy-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Cowie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canonisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary MacKillop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It took just one minute and 100 words to crown Saint Mary of the Cross, but everywhere you turn this morning the nation has gone mad with Mary MacKillop fever. Forget the Commonwealth Games, the media have found a new 'golden girl' to applaud. But what about the other holy five?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The MacKillop industry ramps up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/the-mackillop-industry-ramps-up-with-a-little-ghostly-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/the-mackillop-industry-ramps-up-with-a-little-ghostly-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax deductibility of religions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The media, the Church and politicians are all doing very well to exploit MacKillop in ways she could never have imagined.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/the-mackillop-industry-ramps-up-with-a-little-ghostly-help/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vatican: washing away €23 million worth of sins</title>
		<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/vatican-bank-facing-money_n_732947.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/vatican-bank-facing-money_n_732947.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=173593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further trouble for the Catholic Church, with Italian authorities seizing a whopping €23 million from a Vatican Bank account, amid allegations of money-laundering.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/21/vatican-bank-facing-money_n_732947.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should Catholic priests ditch the celibacy rule?</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/16/catholic-church-celibacy-rule</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/16/catholic-church-celibacy-rule#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[celibacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=165046</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 1,000 children in the UK alone are estimated to have been fathered by Catholic priests. One of them explains what was like growing up with his father's identity kept secret.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Legal action, and internal strife, over ABC Archbishop reports</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/16/legal-action-and-internal-strife-over-abc-archbishop-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/16/legal-action-and-internal-strife-over-abc-archbishop-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic priests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lateline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paedophilia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=153954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Controversy continues to swirl around the recent Media Watch story that wasn't -- a planned probe into two ABC <em>Lateline</em> "special investigations" that suggested the Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson had covered up paedophile priests. <b>Andrew Crook</b> investigates.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/16/legal-action-and-internal-strife-over-abc-archbishop-reports/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vatican rates Pope Joan pic a must miss</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/22/female-pope-film-vatican</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/22/female-pope-film-vatican#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pope Joan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=148004</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vatican enjoys indulging in a spot of film criticism from time to time, and the verdict is in for a new production depicting a female pontiff in the nineteenth century: avoid. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jun/22/female-pope-film-vatican/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to become a saint</title>
		<link>http://www.slate.com/id/2255232/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slate.com/id/2255232/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[saints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=144043</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When he's not coping with church abuse scandals, Pope Benedict XVI loves canonizing saints. But what does one have to do to join the sainthood? Apparently it's about more than just miracles.]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Pope Benedict: we would like to keep shagging priests</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/italian-priests-mistresses-letter-pope</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/italian-priests-mistresses-letter-pope#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=142032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forty Italian women who have had relationships with Catholic priests have written an open letter to the Pope, calling for the Vatican to scrap its policy on celibacy for priests. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Father Marcial Maciel: Mexico&#8217;s most notorious pedophile priest</title>
		<link>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/may/17/father-maciel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/may/17/father-maciel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 01:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Powerful Mexican priest Marcial Macielmay have died two years ago, but his life is suddenly getting a lot of attention in Mexico's newspapers: with new revelations of child sexual abuse, bigamy, drug abuse and plagiarism being uncovered every day.]]></description>
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		<title>Holy real estate prices: how churches make money</title>
		<link>http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/how-churches-invest-05172010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mint.com/blog/investing/how-churches-invest-05172010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Churches aren't just selfless, religious organisations. If the Mormon church was a company, it would make the <em>Fortune</em> 500 list, while the Catholic Church owns more real estate globally than anyone else. ]]></description>
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		<title>Plain-talkin&#8217; Pell to get a promotion</title>
		<link>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100038095/cardinal-pell-critic-of-the-english-hierarchy-and-no-fan-of-the-tablet-takes-charge-of-the-worlds-catholic-bishops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 00:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6235">Word is</a> that Aussie Cardinal George Pell is about to be appointed as the Vatican's head prefect, putting him in charge of 5000 Bishops worldwide. Heads will roll, predicts <b>Damian Thompson</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Can all the celebrity atheists please shut up?</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10333&#038;page=0</link>
		<comments>http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10333&#038;page=0#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI is being crucified over the sexual abuse scandals, when he's the Pope who's made the biggest attempts to rid the Catholic Church of abuse, writes <b>Mary Elias</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic priests on what it&#8217;s like to live without sex</title>
		<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8644120.stm</link>
		<comments>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8644120.stm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catholic Church sex abuse scandals have stirred up the old debates about whether it's actually healthy -- or even possible -- to live a life of  celibacy. Current and former priests weigh in.]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s a crazy idea: What if the Pope is innocent?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/23/here%e2%80%99s-a-crazy-idea-what-if-the-pope-is-innocent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/23/here%e2%80%99s-a-crazy-idea-what-if-the-pope-is-innocent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much actual evidence is there against Pope Benedict? None at all. Sure lots of people, including many Catholics, dislike the Pope. But being unpopular is not a crime, writes <b>Paul Mees</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with the Pope&#8217;s US lawyer</title>
		<link>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-7doeVnrMLf1OoCiHc6Dkl2lvsQD9F55FT00</link>
		<comments>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-7doeVnrMLf1OoCiHc6Dkl2lvsQD9F55FT00#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's it like being the advocate for the man who is supposed to be God's representative on Earth? And what happens when he's caught up in a worldwide sex abuse cover-up scandal? Meet Jeffrey Lena: the California litigator who may have one of the worst jobs on the planet.]]></description>
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		<title>Noonan: How to save the Catholic Church</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510004575186451300061536.html</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510004575186451300061536.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catholic Church is <em>not</em> beyond salvation, argues <b>Peggy Noonan</b>, but it will take a new culture of openness and repentance, and a new generation of priests and nuns, to do it.]]></description>
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