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		<title>Samuel F.B. Morse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world of communication was revolutionized by a man who died APRIL 2, 1872. His name was Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the Morse Code. Samuel F.B. Morse graduated from Yale in 1810, and became one of the greatest portrait artists. He founded the National Academy of Design, and served as its... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/samuel-f-b-morse/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The value of theology and the mystery of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theology is questioned in the modern world, however it was called the &#8220;Queen of the sciences&#8221; in the Middle Ages (when universities began and Western culture flourished).
Why was theology regarded in this way? What is the value of theology?
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		<title>Britain fights Christians&#8217; right to wear cross, infuriating activists</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian activists in Britain are furious at the arguments their government will use against them when Europe&#8217;s highest court considers whether employees have the right to wear crosses that show over their uniforms.
Britain will argue that the two Christian women at the center of the case had the option of quitting their jobs and working... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/britain-fights-christians-right-to-wear-cross-infuriating-activists/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Panel says bishops have the last word on Catholic theology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The task of giving the “authentic interpretation” of the Catholic faith ultimately belongs to bishops, not theologians, a Vatican panel said Thursday (March 8).
A report written by an advisory group of theologians that answers to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said defining Catholic teaching falls chiefly to the “college of bishops... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/panel-says-bishops-have-the-last-word-on-catholic-theology/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican commission affirms scripture as &#8217;soul of theology&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Catholic theology can be judged by its fidelity to Biblical revelation, the Vatican&#8217;s International Theological Commission affirmed March 8 in a new document on the role of theologians.
“Theology in its entirety should conform to the scriptures, and the scriptures should sustain and accompany all theological work,” the commission said in its document “Theology Today: Perspectives,... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/vatican-commission-affirms-scripture-as-soul-of-theology/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Have you found Jesus?</title>
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		<title>Pastor Calls For Starbucks Boycott Over Gay Marriage Support</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Christian pastor is asking customers to boycott Starbucks due to the company&#8217;s support of a bill to legalize gay marriage in Washington state, King 5 News reports.
&#8220;Christians are upset with Starbucks for turning against God&#8230;Starbucks can follow Satan if they want to,&#8221; Steven Andrew,  and evangelical pastor and president of the USA Christian... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/christian-pastor-calls-for-starbucks-boycott-over-gay-marriage-support/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top five regrets of the dying</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is &#8216;I wish I hadn&#8217;t worked so hard&#8217;. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life? 
There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How atheism became a religion in all but name.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when it was very dangerous not to believe in God. In ancient Athens, Socrates was hounded and eventually executed for questioning the city-state’s gods. Throughout most of history, to be ‘godless’ was considered a form of moral decadence deserving punishment. In the seventeenth century, even John Locke, the great liberal philosopher... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/how-atheism-became-a-religion-in-all-but-name-2/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Theologians struggle to tie together roles in church, academia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duquesne University Professor George Worgul remembers well a conversation he had with Cardinal Donald Wuerl in 1989.
The professor had just been appointed chair of the theology department at Pittsburgh&#8217;s largest Catholic university. Then-Bishop Wuerl had taken the reins of the diocese the year before. Worgul says the bishop reached out to talk about how bishops... <br /><br /><a href="http://www.nostra.ie/news/theologians-struggle-to-tie-together-roles-in-church-academia/">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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