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		<title>The Possessed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This last week&#8217;s Gospel got me thinking: what is the status of the soul that is possessed? 
I&#8217;ve always found this particular Bible passage (about how the devil that is cast out goes wandering in search of comfort, and, when he can&#8217;t find it, gets together a group of his evil buddies and goes back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/03/the-possessed/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Poor Among Us&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m thinking of writing a country song called &#8220;Barack Obama Done Stole My Heart.&#8221; And, as you all reel in shock and horror, let me specify that this would not be a loving tribute to the Commander in Chief, but rather a lament that, given our country&#8217;s steady saunter towards socialism, I&#8217;ve become sadly cynical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/the-poor-among-us/</link>
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		<title>Is Gender an Accident?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming out of the last post (on &#8220;excessive Mariology), I thought I might pose the question: is it right to think of gender as accidental? When I say this, of course, I am referring to the Thomistic metaphysical language by which the characteristics of any thing are either essential (roughly, an unchangeable part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/is-gender-an-accident/</link>
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		<title>Blog hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ask for your prayers this Lent.  I desperately need them.  So for 1.) a private intention of mine, 2.) success in the completion of my dissertation (I defend on the Tuesday in Holy Week!), and 3.) good fortune in finding a job, I ask for your prayers.  And I shall be giving up this blog for Lent/dissertation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/blog-hiatus/</link>
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		<title>Helicopter-facilitated wolf-hunting and liberal rationalization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that people faulted in Sarah Palin is that she supported the killing of wolves from helicopters. Apparently, the Alaskan government determined that there were too many wolves and that the packs needed to be culled. First off, liberals are going to hate that right there. I think there are two related [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/helicopter-facilitated-wolf-hunting-and-liberal-idiocy/</link>
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		<title>Resolved: the legal toleration of prostitution may be the preferable evil in certain circumstances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For debate: Could the situation arise in which the legal toleration of prostitution would be the lesser evil?  As prostitution is currently illegal in most jurisdictions in the United States, legal toleration would entail decriminalization, whether statutory or by way of informally &#8220;looking the other way.&#8221; 
St. Augustine of Hippo, &#8220;Divine Providence and The Problem of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/resolved-the-legalization-of-prostitution-may-be-the-more-preferable-evil-in-certain-circumstances/</link>
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		<title>Wherein Bonifacius checks seemingly over-zealous Mariology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the topic of men and women comes up, Catholics will almost invariably chime in, &#8220;The holiest person who ever lived was a woman!&#8221; This sort of comment gives me pause. The Blessed Virgin was indeed the holiest *human person* who ever lived. However, she was not the holiest *human being.* Our Lord, a man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/wherein-bonifacius-seemingly-checks-over-zealous-mariology/</link>
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		<title>Black Hills, White Law, Red Grievances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This article is not about anything explicitly Catholic.  But often liberals complain about how the white man supposedly made this continent worse.  They say that the coming of Columbus made life worse for the Indians.  We know that he brought many evils along with the *greatest good* &#8212; the Good News of salvation.  So the Indians benefited.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/black-hills-white-law-red-grievances/</link>
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		<title>Cannibalism, &#8220;medical&#8221; and otherwise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may recall the movie &#8220;Alive.&#8221;  It was about a group of Uruguayan soccer players whose plane crashed in the Andes.  A number of them died.  Those who survived did so by devouring the flesh of the dead.  They did this only after great and solemn debate.  They ate only the flesh of people who had already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/cannibalism-medical-and-otherwise/</link>
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		<title>Teenage pregnancy and a long-term cultural project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not bothered by teenage pregnancy as such.  I am bothered by the way our society defers marriage.   The  time when reproduction is healthiest is the time when women should do it.  Let me repeat that.  Biologically speaking, the time to reproduce is when the body is ready, willing, and able.  Most societies have prepared men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/teenage-pregnancy-and-a-long-term-cultural-project/</link>
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		<title>Yes, traditionalist Catholics can abuse language, too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditionalist Catholics talk a lot about the abuse of language. Here I will protest that many traditionalist Catholics also abuse language in a particular instance. There is a movement afoot to say that Catholics &#8220;don&#8217;t date,&#8221; they &#8220;court.&#8221; The idea is that dating is what the world does &#8212; easy sex, no commitment or commitment entered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/yes-traditionalist-catholics-can-abuse-language-too/</link>
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		<title>The atheists are right on this one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some atheists are saying that Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta should not be on a U.S. postal stamp because her work cannot be separated from her being a nun and a Roman Catholic. While Mother Teresa should be on a stamp, they are quite right that such a stamp can only possibly honor her work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/02/the-atheists-are-right-on-this/</link>
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		<title>A question about judgmentalism; or, C.S. Lewis, the Wolf in Sheep&#8217;s Clothing (Part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Judge not lest ye be judged.&#8221; &#8220;The measure wherewith ye judge, by that measure shall ye be judged.&#8221; I am a judgmental person. I pretty much divide the world into two groups: the hopeless sinners I don&#8217;t like and the ones I do. Which category I place myself in depends on my caffeine and serotonin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/a-question-about-judgmentalism/</link>
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		<title>Another Protestant canard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Protestants generally do not like crucifixes.  There are a number of reasons for this, but I will not deal with them.   I am interested in one lie they often tell in order to justify their strong tendency toward displaying crosses devoid  of a corpus.  The excuse they give is that Christ is risen &#8212; He is no longer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/another-protestant-canard/</link>
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		<title>Brown, Coakley, and reproduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider this a Steve Sailer-ish type post on culture and reproduction. By now we should all know that the new senator from Massachusetts&#8217; position on abortion is &#8221;nuanced&#8221; but still &#8220;pro-choice.&#8221;  I fear that thanks to his election there will be attempts by the Republicans to pick up more seats this year by selling out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/coakley-brown-and-reproduction/</link>
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		<title>On King&#8217;s &#8220;non-violence&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s birthday was recently celebrated as a national holiday. Rather than go on about King&#8217;s plagiarism, or his Protestant and Modernist heresies, or his adulteries, or his socialism (as Clara has done in the past), I&#8217;ll attack the myth of his &#8220;non-violence.&#8221; King officially condemned violence on the part of his marchers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/on-kings-non-violence/</link>
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		<title>The Founding Fathers and their ideological Kool-Aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another one of my hit-and-run pieces, no footnotes, no citations. I propose that America has one of the most conservative political cultures in the Western World and the reason for this is that we are a &#8220;proposition nation.&#8221; This may surprise many so-called paleocons and fellow-travellers, and I consider myself in a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/the-founding-fathers-and-their-ideological-kool-aid/</link>
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		<title>The ad hominem and how to defeat it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the problems with being Catholic is that all of us except Our Lord, Our Lady, and those saints who preserved their baptismal gown of grace unsullied by any and all actual sins (and I&#8217;ve never met any of the latter lucky so-and-so&#8217;s) are, by definition, hypocrites. We all advance standards which we do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/the-ad-hominem-and-how-to-defeat-it/</link>
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		<title>Random questions about the preternatural</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it seems to me that as Catholics we have to concede the possibility of witchcraft. Satan exists, he has certain super-human powers, and he contacts certain people. I therefore see no way that we can object in theory to the *possibility* of signing a pact with the devil or the idea that demons might lend their services to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/random-questions-about-the-preternatural/</link>
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		<title>Pope Aeneas the Pious</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aeneas Piccolomini was a humanistic scholar of the Renaissance who became Pope. Upon his election (1458) he chose to be named Pius II, Pius I having lived in the second century. I suggest that he chose his regnal name as a kind of joke. In the &#8220;Aeneid,&#8221; Vergil frequently refers to Aeneas as &#8220;pius,&#8221; which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cornellsociety.org/2010/01/pope-aeneas-the-pious/</link>
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