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      <title><![CDATA[What Pope Leo's Chicago Can Still Teach the Rest of Us]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chicago loves claiming Pope Leo XIV as its own. What interests me more is the city he left behind, and the church that changed without waiting for him.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jacob Whitman</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Pope Leo Saw in Africa, and What We Keep Missing]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every time the church starts talking about Africa as the future, I get a little uneasy. Not because Africa isn't alive with faith, but because we've learned the hard way that crowded churches don't guarantee durable discipleship.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:53:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Father Lucas</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why West Virginia Just Got a Bishop Who Won't Play It Safe]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[West Virginia's next bishop arrives with an immigrant's memory and a pastor's instincts. I don't think that combination landed there by accident.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 21:04:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Henry S. Wallace</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Leo Found in Africa That Rome Needed to Hear]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Leo's first audience after Africa wasn't travel scrapbook material. It was sharper than that, and a lot more hopeful.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:51:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Pastor Benjamin</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Jimmy Kimmel Should Stay on Air After That Melania Joke]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Melania Trump was cheap and ugly. I still don’t want presidents deciding which comedians get to keep a microphone.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:18:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Father Lucas</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Feels So Personal to the Church]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The people trapped at sea near Hormuz aren't symbols in a geopolitical standoff. They're workers, parents, and frightened human beings, and the Church is right to say their names.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:38:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jacob Whitman</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Leo XIV's Meeting With Canterbury Felt Different]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV's message to Anglicans wasn't flashy. That may be exactly why it matters.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:05:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jacob Whitman</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Canada’s MAiD Fight Just Turned Toward Mental Illness]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cardinal Frank Leo is pushing back against Canada’s plan to expand assisted suicide to those with mental illness alone. I think his intervention gets at a fear many people feel but struggle to name.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:09:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Henry S. Wallace</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Pope Leo's Cameroon Visit Might Matter After the Crowds]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For a few days, even fighters stood down to welcome the pope. I keep thinking about what that says, and what it demands now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:59:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jacob Whitman</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Pope Leo Got Blunter in Equatorial Guinea]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo didn't go to Africa to mumble safe church words. In Equatorial Guinea, he sounded like a pastor who knows the Gospel has political consequences.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:04:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Father Lucas</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[What the Pope Said in Malabo That Oil Money Couldn't Hide]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo's stop in Equatorial Guinea wasn't diplomatic wallpaper. He walked into a country built on oil wealth and public misery, and he named the lie.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:24:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Henry S. Wallace</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Pope Leo Said in Cameroon That Governments Hate Hearing]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo went to Cameroon and said something blunt about the Anglophone conflict. I think that matters more than diplomatic niceties usually do.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Pastor Benjamin</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why 10 Republicans Broke Ranks on Haitians]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The House just passed an unusual bipartisan bill to protect Haitians from deportation. I keep thinking less about the vote count and more about what kind of country needs pastors to beg for basic mercy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:10:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jacob Whitman</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Didn't Expect This Stop to Matter So Much]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At first glance, this looked like one more ceremonial stop. Then I kept thinking about Augustine, North Africa, and what the Church forgets too easily.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:54:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Jacob Whitman</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Pope Answered Trump With One Line]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pope Leo didn't match volume with volume. He answered with something steadier, and I think that's the part people will remember.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:23:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Pastor Benjamin</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Those 3 Cardinals Just Said Took Nerve]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three U.S. cardinals didn't just offer a mild correction. They named something rotten in how we talk about war, and I think that matters more than people admit.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:59:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Henry S. Wallace</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nobody Saw This Part of Leo's Algeria Trip Coming]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The headlines want the pope-versus-Trump fight. I keep coming back to where Leo went first, and what that says about the Church.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:40:37 GMT</pubDate>
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