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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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color:#7C0A89'>Actually I just read the Wills book that his </span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>"Why I Am A Catholic" </span></font><font
color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black";mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>follows
up on. It’s called, <u>PAPAL SINS</u>, and, like everything Wills does, it’s
good. He explains at the end why he’s a Christian, mostly because Jesus, and
St. Augustine, were honest and didn’t lie. (I’m not doing him justice exactly.).
>From what he says in it I’m not sure why he’s a Catholic specifically, since he
challenges a whole range of Catholic notions. Maybe this new book goes into
detail.</span></font><font color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span
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color:#7C0A89'>By the way, Michael, your father got his annulment cheap, from
what I hear. $450 is cut-rate. Not long ago I was asked to be a witness at the
annulment of a former roommate’s marriage, at which, in 1968, I was an usher. The
Diocese of Rockville Center wanted me to write an essay of two pages each about
five questions. Couldn’t bring my self to do it.</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color="#7c0a89" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#7C0A89'>Christopher Rhoades
D˙kema</span></font><font color="#7c0a89" face=Arial><span style='font-family:
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span lang=SV style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-ansi-language:SV'>Date: Fri, 26 Jul
2002 10:36:01 -0700</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>From: Michael Pugliese
<debsian@pacbell.net></span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89"
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>Subject: Re: catholics (wasRe: Nation
Books vs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nation magazine</span></font><font
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font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Peter K., Gary Wills has a new book, "Why I Am A
Catholic." Tried to lend my step-Mom, "Cry of the </span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>People, " by the late left
Catholic writer, Penny Lernoux, on US imperialism, death squads and the </span></font><font
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>Church. Too many grim pgs, she passed.</span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Last week I was in the 'burbs of L.A. for my Dad's
re-committment ceremony to my step-Mom. He was </span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>married to my Mom for 23 yrs,
D-I-V-O-R-C-E was in '79. In order to be in heaven with my step-Mom he </span></font><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>just got the 1st marriage annuled. The
Church has a set of 33 questions as part of the process. It only </span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>cost $450.</span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>Michael Pugliese</span></font><font
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>P.S. Carter's grain embargo was 'cuz
of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, US also withdrew the </span></font><font
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>Olympic teams to the Moscow Olympics
in '80.</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>P.P.S. Gary Wills interviewed Ross
Perot once. Perot called him a pointy-headed, egg head, East Coast </span></font><font
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size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89'>elitest intellectual. Wills said I
teach in the mid-West. Somewhere in Illinois I think.</span></font><font
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