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…thanks for hanging in there.
\nA few good things, amid the bad news – the continually horrid news that seems to burst on the screens for ever-shorter periods of time, news that people have been shot in a store in Chicago, a meeting room outside St. Louis and now a classroom in DeKalb…all within a period of three weeks.\u00a0 God rest their souls.<\/p>\n

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Dawn Eden, thankfully recovering well from her thyroid surgery, had what sounds like a wonderful talk at Georgetown last night, and is next heading to Yale Sex Week. <\/a>
\nFrom another campus, Marcel LeJeune of Texas A&M’s Catholic Campus Ministry, has refelctions on the mystery of humanity and human dignity. <\/a>
\nApologist Rosalind Moss is establishing a new religious community in St. Louis. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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