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	<description>&#34;Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth&#34; - Pope St. John Paul II</description>
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		<title>Creation and the Young Earth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2020 19:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Creation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creation Account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution vs Creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fossils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scientism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ever since the infamous Scopes-Monkey Trial, there has been an growing insistence that the Creation Account in Genesis is not a scientific account.  With an equal vehemence, those in the Church have insisted likewise.  When the opening chapters of Genesis are spoken of, they are always introduced with a disclaimer that they do not seek &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/creation-and-the-young-earth/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Creation and the Young Earth</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cutting Ourselves Off at the Knees</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ephesians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kneeling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer Posture]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his book The Spirit of the Liturgy, the future Pope Benedict XVI frets over the fact that believers have grown unaccustomed to kneeling.&#160; Not prone to hyperbole, Ratzinger said that a “faith no longer familiar with kneeling would be sick at the core” because it “no longer knows the One before Whom kneeling is &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/cutting-ourselves-off-at-the-knees/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Cutting Ourselves Off at the Knees</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Keeping Your Hands Off</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eucharist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magisterium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communion in the Hand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communion on the Tongue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Henry Newman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liturgy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Presence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirit of Vatican II]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been alleged that in the early years of his revolution, Martin Luther was in the practice of celebrating “Mass” by omitting the words of consecration while still elevating the bread and chalice.&#160; This was done so that those gathered would not realize that Luther was doing something novel.&#160; His act of deceit reveals &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/keeping-your-hands-off/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Keeping Your Hands Off</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Limbo and the Fate of  Unbaptized Infants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith and Reason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purgatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redemption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relativism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baptism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Descent into Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infant Baptism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Limbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Original Sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Alphonsus Liguori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Thomas Aquinas]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In an age of exaggerated mercy there is perhaps no doctrine that is more reprehensible than that of Limbo.  Developed early on in the Church’s history, it is the belief that children who die without receiving baptism go to a place of natural bliss in which they do not share in the Beatific Vision given &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/limbo-and-the-fate-of-unbaptized-infants/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Limbo and the Fate of  Unbaptized Infants</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Dare to Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2019 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Authority]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Devils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[End Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last Things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magisterium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aquinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augustine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balthasar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Barron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dare We Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo the Great]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lex Orandi Lex Credendi]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, a theological and anthropological defense of the permanence of hell was offered.&#160; A brief mention was made of the need to avoid hell in the right way—not by means of an infernal gymnastics, one that stretches the imagination and explains it away.&#160; But the denial of hell’s everlastingness is only one &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/why-we-shouldnt-dare-to-hope/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Dare to Hope</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Praying to the Lord of the Harvest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Advent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Orders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Ordination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ember Days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo the Great]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liturgical Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Priesthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vocations]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the first Saturday of Advent, the Church chooses as the gospel Matthew’s account of the commissioning of the Apostles.&#160; After taking to heart the lost souls around Him, He demands that His disciples beg God to send more laborers into the fields.&#160; He then empowers the Apostles and commands them to go out into &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/praying-to-the-lord-of-the-harvest/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Praying to the Lord of the Harvest</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The New Eve and the Immaculate Conception</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 10:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incarnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam and Eve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immaculate Conception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John the Evangelist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marian Dogma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Adam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Eve]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, we mentioned how St. John gives us all we need to make the dogma of the Assumption of Our Lady explicit.&#160; But this is not the only dogma that he gives us the foundation for.&#160; He also helps us to ground the other controversial Marian dogma of the Immaculate Conception. One &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/the-new-eve-and-the-immaculate-conception/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The New Eve and the Immaculate Conception</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Permanence of Hell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2019 10:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communion of Saints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magisterium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mercy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aquinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Last Things]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Last Judgment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortal Sin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pharaoh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repentance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis once said that there was no doctrine that, if he had the power, he would more willingly remove from Christianity than hell.&#160; But he also was humble enough to recognize that were he to do so, it would destroy the very reason for Christianity.&#160; The Good News is really only good when we &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/the-permanence-of-hell/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Permanence of Hell</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our Daily Bread</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eucharist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacraments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Mass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pius X]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Francis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis recently approved a new translation in French and Italian of the Lord’s Prayer that offers a re-translation of the petition “lead us not into temptation.”  The Holy Father has repeatedly expressed his concern that the phrase as it is translated is misleading, making it seem like it is God that actually leads us &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/our-daily-bread/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Our Daily Bread</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>St. Justin Martyr and the Divorce of Faith and Reason</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 09:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Fathers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith and Reason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enlightenment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The image of an acorn and an oak tree is often invoked to describe the growth of the Church from its humble beginnings to today.&#160; The image is meant to convey the unity of the Church separated by nearly two millennia, but it is also helpful because it transmits a second, often overlooked aspect.&#160; To &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/st-justin-martyr-and-the-divorce-of-faith-and-reason/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">St. Justin Martyr and the Divorce of Faith and Reason</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Protestantism and Infant Baptism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Apologetics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Evangelization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baptism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra-Protestantism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luther]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the more hotly contested issues between Protestants and Catholics is infant Baptism.&#160; What makes this particular practice contentious is that it really gets to the heart of the fundamental differences between Catholicism and Protestantism by pitting Tradition and Sacramental Theology against two of the Solas, Scriptura and Fide.&#160; Because it is a “test &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/protestantism-and-infant-baptism/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Protestantism and Infant Baptism</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Worshipping Like the Early Christians</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2019 10:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Breaking of the Bread]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the ironies associated with the proliferation of Protestant sects is that it has been marked by a certain antiquarianism in which the various groups try to return the style of worship that marked the early Church.  Often lampooned as a “dude starting a church in his garage”, the number of “house churches” in &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/worshipping-like-the-early-christians/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Worshipping Like the Early Christians</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Chair of St. Peter and Pope St. Clement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Agnelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St. Paul would often close his letters with a personal touch, mentioning those that held a special place in his heart.&#160; His letter to the Philippians is not unique is that regard.&#160; What is unique about this particular letter however is the man whom he mentions and what he says about him.&#160; St. Paul, under &#8230; <a href="http://www.twowingstogod.com/the-chair-of-st-peter-and-pope-st-clement/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Chair of St. Peter and Pope St. Clement</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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