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		<title>The power of &#8216;one&#8217;</title>
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Looking for another, more meaningful New Year&#8217;s resolution? Bob, McCarty, director of the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry, said in an interview with xt3 recently, that he has a great love and admiration for Catholic young adults today &#8220;because this is the generation that is most called to serve.&#8221;  
Xt3 linked the interview to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2009/01/02/the-power-of-one/</link>
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		<title>O little town of Bethlehem</title>
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I drove by a Lutheran church yesterday morning when the bells were chiming this classic Christmas hymn. Then I ran across an excerpt in the St. Gregory parish bulletin about the current state of Bethlehem.
The article was originally published in the Sept. 1, 2008 issue of America, a weekly Jesuit Catholic magazine. The full version is only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2009/01/01/o-little-town-of-bethlehem/</link>
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		<title>Deacon Schmid in Valley magazine</title>
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I keep forgetting to mention that I ran across a Q-and-A with Deacon Will Schmid in Raising Arizona Kids magazine last week. The article explores his discernment process. 
The piece was coincidentally written by a former classmate of mine when we were in one of the pilot classes exploring the world of online media. Therefore, the online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/31/deacon-schmid-in-valley-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Alternative New Year&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s entry on the xt3 Christmastide calendar listed alternative ways to ring in the New Year. The Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, is one of four U.S. venues who made the list. 
That&#8217;s because the center is offering a way to ring in the New Year Catholic-style — by treating yourself to spiritual renewal in 2009. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/30/alternative-new-years/</link>
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		<title>Issue Preview: Jan. 1, 2009</title>
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Our first issue of the year is, once again, packed with a variety of local stories covering the life of the Phoenix Diocese.
You&#8217;ll find an advance on a pro-life speaker at Christ the King Parish in Mesa, a story on perpetual adoration starting at St. Bernadette Parish in Scottsdale and an update on the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/28/issue-preview-jan-1-2009/</link>
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		<title>High schoolers become Santa for Soldiers</title>
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I got a press release from Xavier College Preparatory last week about the school&#8217;s effort to bring Christmas to soldiers whose service to their country has separated them from their families at Christmas. I since learned that other Catholic high schoolers also reached out to them.
It was all through the efforts of Bridget Alcocer from Phoenix, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/25/high-schoolers-become-santa-for-soldiers/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Mass online</title>
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Unable to make it to a Christmas Mass this year?
That&#8217;s okay.
Now, Skyline Productions, the same people responsible for the TV Mass broadcast live from Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral every Sunday, is helping to put this year&#8217;s Christmas Eve Mass with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted online.
Homebound Catholics won&#8217;t have to miss the communal celebration of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/23/christmas-mass-online/</link>
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		<title>Christmas ornaments</title>
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Students, faculty and administrators at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Tempe will never forget this Christmas. The school&#8217;s seventh and eighth graders provided each one of them with a handmade keepsake ornament before the Christmas break. The annual tradition started last year.



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		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/23/christmas-ornaments/</link>
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		<title>A sense of geography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my Maggie&#8217;s Place newsletter, the Delivery Room, in the mail over the weekend. I can&#8217;t remember if it&#8217;s a monthly thing or a quarterly publication, but the &#8220;Christmas 2008&#8243; issue made me feel a little bit better about a couple of things.
First, it made me realize that I&#8217;m not the only one whose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/23/a-sense-of-geography/</link>
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		<title>Xavier student ranked top in state</title>
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Stephanie Preach, a setter for the Xavier College Preparatory varsity volleyball team, was recently named as Gatorade&#8217;s Arizona Volleyball Player of the Year. The 5-foot-8 junior recorded 983 assists and 253 kills along with a .437 hitting percentage this season according to a Xavier press release. It was that performance that helped the team win [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/19/xavier-student-ranked-top-in-state/</link>
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		<title>Minnesota bishops call for compassionate immigration reform dialogue</title>
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Last week, the Minnesota Catholic bishops asked Catholics throughout the state to renew their commitment to welcoming newcomers.
The bishops&#8217; statement, issue on Dec. 12, came on the two year anniversary of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid of the Swift and Co. meatpacking plant in Worthington, Minn. The joint statement also called for comprehensive immigration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/19/minnesota-bishops-call-for-compassionate-immigration-reform-dialogue/</link>
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		<title>B16: Economic crisis brings Christmas into focus</title>
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The current economic strife could lead Christians to a fuller understanding of the birth of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said.
&#8220;The Word became flesh to offer humanity the salvation which can  only be received as a gracious gift from God,&#8221; he said during his Dec. 17 General Audience. &#8220;In the Christ  Child, God humbly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/18/b16-economic-crisis-brings-christmas-into-focus/</link>
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		<title>More on the Salesian sisters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve made it to p.29 of your Dec. 18 issue already:

Congratulations! You&#8217;re more than half-way through one of our largest issues ever.
Despite so many pages, there still wasn&#8217;t room for all of our stories. Most notably, there are some details missing from the Salesian sister feature on p.29. That info is below.

The women continue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/18/more-on-the-salesian-sisters/</link>
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		<title>A brother on Bond</title>
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A few issue back, The Catholic Sun ran Rebecca Bostic&#8217;s review of &#8220;Quantum of Solace,&#8221; the latest installment in the James Bond series. This year&#8217;s contribution is the second in the revamped series starring Daniel Craig.
It&#8217;s a darker, grittier Bond — a character that struggles with his identity and morality.
Today I stumbled across another review [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/18/a-brother-on-bond/</link>
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		<title>The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been six days since parishes across the Phoenix Diocese celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and even longer since Catholics joined to honor their mother. Still, I thought this video might help those of us who are relatively new to Our Lady of Guadalupe understand her a little better. I came across [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/18/the-story-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe/</link>
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		<title>Vatican instruction on bioethics released</title>
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WASHINGTON — Dignitas Personae (The Dignity of a Person), an Instruction from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on ethical issues arising from biomedical research, provides guidance on how to respect human life and human procreation in our heavily scientific age, said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/17/vatican-instruction-on-bioethics-released/</link>
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		<title>Travelers Aid</title>
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I&#8217;m heading to the airport in a bit to drop off some holiday travelers. I wish I had time to drop by the chapel while I&#8217;m there, but I don&#8217;t plan to park.
The Sky Harbor Interfaith Chaplaincy is a great little secret I keep trying to let out. This all-faith place is a small room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/17/travelers-aid/</link>
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		<title>Leading post-Vatican II Catholic theologian dies</title>
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Cardinal Avery Dulles, an internationally renowned author and lecturer on theological topics, and the first American to be named a cardinal who was not a bishop, died Dec. 12. He was 90.
The death of Jesuit Cardinal Avery Dulles “brings home to God a great theologian and a totally dedicated servant of the Church,” said Cardinal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/17/leading-post-vatican-ii-catholic-theologian-dies/</link>
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		<title>The Knights are coming to town</title>
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Knights of Columbus plan congress, festival in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Aug. 6 -8, 2009 in Phoenix
(Source: Knights of Columbus&#8217; press release)
The Knights of Columbus will hold its First International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe from August 6-8, 2009, following the organization&#8217;s 127th annual convention in Phoenix.
The Congress will conclude with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/17/the-knights-are-coming-to-town/</link>
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		<title>Seminarian updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across a firsthand account from a local seminarian that I wanted to pass along. It&#8217;s from Jimmy Wraith, a first semester seminarian who some of you might have met in my June article highlighting what various students planned to do after graduating from Catholic high schools across the Valley. Wraith wrote it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/17/seminarian-updates/</link>
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		<title>Brophy soccer — not just for kicks</title>
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I just got distracted on Brophy’s Web site while following a lead for a different blogpost — I’ll likely get to that one tomorrow. Meanwhile, I thought I should pass along what I found.
Second from the top of their &#8220;News and Events&#8221; column is an enticing link about the soccer team&#8217;s &#8220;Goals for Sierra Leone&#8221; project. That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/15/brophy-soccer-%e2%80%94-not-just-for-kicks/</link>
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		<title>Our Lady of Guadalupe</title>
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Many parishes and schools held are are holding some kind of tribute to Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Phoenix Diocese, today or this weekend. Several hundred Catholics joined Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted in downtown Phoenix Sunday for the third annual Honor Your Mother celebration. If you missed it, JD re-capped it for you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/12/our-lady-of-guadalupe/</link>
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		<title>Searching for something good?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least 15 parishes, schools and other agencies serving the Phoenix Diocese are. Or, more accurately, they&#8217;re searching for the common good. And I think it&#8217;s safe to say they would appreciate you joining their efforts.
Catholic-based parishes, groups and schools, including St. Louis the King in Glendale, use GoodSearch when surfing the Internet. The search [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/12/searching-for-something-good/</link>
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		<title>Gift giving without the hassle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was researching agencies to contact for the article I wrote on Thanksgiving and Christmas service opportunities, the Foundation for Senior Living was on my list. I ended up cutting them because I couldn&#8217;t find anything online about current/holiday specific service needs. A short while later, a blurb in the agency&#8217;s fall newsletter corrected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/11/gift-giving-without-the-hassle/</link>
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		<title>Honor Your Mother 2008</title>
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Catholics from around the Phoenix Diocese gathered for a procession and Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 7 in downtown Phoenix. An estimated 700 joined Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, who concelebrated the Mass with several priests, including Holy Cross Father John Herman, the bilingual homilist. The event also marked the beginning of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogtcs.com/2008/12/09/honor-your-mother-2008/</link>
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