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    <title><![CDATA[Heading to New Orleans]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 64th International Catholic Stewardship Council Annual Conference]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Year We Were Held Back]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the parable of the workers in the vineyard]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Standing With Her]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stop Counting]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Peter asks about forgiving seven times. Jesus says seventy-seven - inverting the oldest pattern of human violence. Homily for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Is Actually Asked of You]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The most common thing Catholics get wrong about dying is believing the Church requires them to endure everything medicine can do. It does not, and it never has. What is actually permitted, and what to do about it this week.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Sanitary Food Preparation Act]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The law that takes effect in Illinois today passed at two in the morning on Halloween, by the narrowest possible margin, inside a bill about food safety.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What We Remembered, What We Forgot]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years after September 11]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Exhausted Middle]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the quiet majority, the parish, and where healing actually starts]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I Didn't Know I'd Feel]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On Matthew's graduation and the families who serve]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Aligned]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three days at Disney World with Joseph]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What the Wait Actually Buys You]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two expected payoffs don't materialize when you wait to ship something whole. Three quieter ones actually do. On what the wait actually buys you.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I'm Coming Back To]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On sabbaticals, solid selves, and staying]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I'm Not Doing This Week]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last week I promised a new offering would open for booking today. It isn't. Here's the decision behind the delay - and why the delay is itself the essay.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Modern Steel Mill]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Granite City has lived next to industry for 130 years. Data centers are the industrial technology of our era, and we already know how to do this - if we're willing to negotiate instead of refuse.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The One Who Stays]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A reflection on Luke Burgis's "The One and the Ninety-Nine"]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[How we pray shapes what we believe shapes how we live]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Long Middle]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the two ways honest people answer the identity question wrong - the role trap and the wound trap. A lot of you wrote back. Some of you s]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Four Sons, One Week]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On seeds, stages, and the rare gift of watching them bloom at once]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[What I Couldn't See Then]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When I first took a Director role at Adobe, I thought I knew what I was saying yes to. I didn't. On the two traps that catch honest people in a career transition - and what the identity question actually wants.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Question Underneath]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[He sat down and told me he thought he was done climbing. He wasn't sure he was allowed to say that. What surfaced next changed how I think about every career decision - my own included.]]></description>
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