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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>New Advent</title><description>These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.</description><link>https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml</link><atom:link href="https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
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  3. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1961399730150366467</guid><category>Head</category><title>Pope’s Sunday Regina Coeli: Jesus ‘Wants Your Good and He Wants You to Share in His’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-05/pope-encourages-growing-in-friendship-with-the-lord.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In his reflections on the Sunday Gospel during the Regina Coeli, Pope Francis recalls Jesus' words to the Apostles, “I do not call you servants any longer, but friends," and encourages us to grow in friendship with the Lord and sharing it with others. At the same time, he offers prayers for flood victims in Brazil and for dialogue and peace in Ukraine, Palestine, and Israel.</description></item>
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  5. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8720069225502418246</guid><category>Left</category><title>A Paradigm Shift from Veritatis Splendor to Amoris Laetitia?</title><link>https://veritasamoris.org/a-paradigm-shift-from-veritatis-splendor-to-amoris-laetitia/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>What has happened in Catholic moral theology with the publication of Amoris Laetitia? Some claim that everything has changed. In particular, they argue that one can no longer refer to Veritatis Splendor, an encyclical that has supposedly become obsolete because there has allegedly been a shift from the rigorism of “moral absolutes”...</description></item>
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  7. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8830619347475996843</guid><category>Center</category><title>Meet Mother Marla Marie, who left the Washington Post (where she worked for Herblock) for the Maronite convent.....</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257556/from-the-washington-post-to-the-maronite-convent-meet-mother-marla-marie</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>It was 1983, in the last years of the Cold War, when 21-year-old Marla Lucas’ eyes filled with tears at the sight of a political cartoon prepared to be printed in the Washington Post criticizing then-Pope John Paul II during his activism against communism in Poland. Lucas, who is now known as Mother Marla, was fresh out of college at the time and had recently experienced a reversion to her Catholic faith and was “on fire” for Christ...</description></item>
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  9. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2909943814791083810</guid><category>Left</category><title>The AP offers an outsider's view of the Catholic Church...</title><link>https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/the-ap-offers-an-outsiders-view-into-the-catholic-church/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Sometimes when you are part of a subculture, it is really important to step out of it or to be shown what it looks like from the outside. In the United States, to be a Mass-attending Catholic is to be part of a religious subculture (please, spare me the discussion of whether Catholicism is the ‘real’ culture and thus America is the subculture). American Catholics were given the chance to see themselves from another point of view...</description></item>
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  11. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6072203577508951499</guid><category>Center</category><title>Ethan Hawke didn’t make ‘Wildcat’ to be a blockbuster. He made it to be good art. And he succeeded.....</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/capturing-a-misfit-a-review-of-wildcat/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Damian Ference)</author><description>I am convinced the primary reason Flannery O’Connor was so serious about her Catholic faith is that it was the one place where she experienced being seen and understood and loved; it was the one place in which she felt that she fit—that she belonged, because at the center of Catholicism is a crucified misfit...</description></item>
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  13. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5912959033082353314</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Wildcat’ sheds light on Flannery O'Connor's faith and fiction and leaves audience searching for grace.....</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/wildcat-faith-and-fiction-searching-for-grace</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Flannery O’Connor spent most of her life living on Andalusia farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, with her mother. From her imagination emerged some of the most unforgettable characters in 20th-century American literature: Hulga, the one-legged intellectual who fancies herself better than the country bumpkins that surround her; Ruby Turpin, a proud farmer’s wife who categorizes people by race and class; a one-armed drifter who marries a dimwitted girl and abandons her at a truck stop. </description></item>
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  15. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-809584158008064220</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘Renew and Deepen ... Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,’ Says Pope Francis on 350th Anniversary of St. Margaret Mary Apparitions...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-05/pope-invites-to-rediscover-reparation-to-the-sacred-heart.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The meaning of reparation in the Church is the focus of an international conference organized in Rome to mark the 350th anniversary of the Apparitions of the Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary of Alacoque in Paray-le-Monial, a small town in the Bourgogne region of eastern France.</description></item>
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  17. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4917148179444847776</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Sunday, On the Way to the Cross, Jesus Shared ‘God’s Innermost Secret’...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-on-the-way-to-the-cross-jesus-shares-gods-innermost-secret</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Hoopes)</author><description>On the night before he died, Jesus was thinking about our joy, not his pain — and he shared a secret that we only now may be ready to understand. The Church has been looking back on that night for weeks now, because what Jesus said in his Farewell Discourse on Holy Thursday reveals the deepest meaning of what he wants us to do now, on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B.</description></item>
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  19. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5701852341270550094</guid><category>Center</category><title>Have you ever heard of this Navy tradition? Babies are baptized in the ship’s bell.....</title><link>https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/03/Navy-Tradition-Baptizing-Babies-in-the-Ships-Bell/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Today I learned that the US Navy traditionally allows the infant children of crew members to be baptized in the upturned ship's bell. A 2021 Navy press release about such a baptism onboard the USS Kearsarge says that this tradition was borrowed from the Royal Navy which permitted the such rites in foreign ports either in or under the bell.</description></item>
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  21. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4902786808868115728</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why does God try to kill Moses in Exodus 4?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/why-does-god-try-to-kill-moses-in-exodus-4/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Clement Harrold)</author><description>Chapter 4 of the Book of Exodus contains one of the strangest passages in all of Sacred Scripture. Verses 18-26 describe how Moses, living in exile in the land of Midian, goes to his father-in-law Jethro to request permission to return to his own people back in Egypt. Jethro consents, and so Moses sets off together with his wife, Zipporah, and their sons.</description></item>
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  23. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1151881148062581603</guid><category>Center</category><title>After years of snubs and sharp criticisms from Rome, parish priests will welcome the change of tone in the Pope’s new letter.....</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/pope-francis-letter-to-parish-priests-de-souza</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>Pope Francis has addressed a warm and affectionate letter to parish priests throughout the Church. The letter, written on the occasion of a meeting of parish priests in Rome as part of the synodal process, attempts three things — to repair the damage done by the exclusion of parish priests from the synodal assembly last October...</description></item>
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  27. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3658071343437733757</guid><category>Center</category><title>Nagasaki’s Continuous Martyrdom: From the Hidden Church to the Atomic Bomb...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/nagasaki-martrydom-atomic-bomb-gaetan</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Victor Gaetan)</author><description>High above the city of Nagasaki, I walk a Way of the Cross in the steps of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who founded a monastery here in 1931. The lush mountainous area is marked by a grotto reminiscent of Lourdes, built by the Polish Franciscan saint to honor the Blessed Mother and sanctify the place where he lived for five years, until called back to Poland.</description></item>
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  29. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-110258400856512985</guid><category>Left</category><title>Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: Peace in the Holy Land Is Built on Dialogue, Action...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257574/cardinal-pizzaballa-peace-in-holy-land-built-on-dialogue-action</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem delivered an impassioned lecture on Thursday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome detailing the process of peace in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, noting that it is an integral part of the Church’s universal mission and one that must not be conflated with overtly temporal or political aims. </description></item>
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  31. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6911766208527937891</guid><category>Center</category><title>What changed when parents gave their 10-year-old her first iPad?</title><link>https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/what-happened-when-parents-gave-a</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Terry Mattingly)</author><description>I continue to work my way through the much-discussed book “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt. It’s slow work, in part because I am taking lots of notes. I don’t know about you folks, but I am a slow, careful reader when dealing with subjects that I believe are unusually important.</description></item>
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  35. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4582379813414195423</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Return of the Canonized Popes...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/the-return-of-the-canonized-popes</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>For centuries after Pope St. Pius V, who died in 1572 and whose feast day was April 30, Catholics may well have thought that he was the last of a dwindling tribe, the canonized pope. That has changed dramatically in recent decades. Indeed, April 27 marked the 10th anniversary of the twin papal canonizations of St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II...</description></item>
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  37. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-197204869000945574</guid><category>Left</category><title>Thank You, Bill Maher, But Your Critique of Hollywood’s Depravity Didn’t Go Far Enough...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/bill-maher-hollywood-depravity</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jennifer Roback Morse)</author><description>If you haven’t seen talk show host Bill Maher’s recent monologue calling out the pedophilia problem in Hollywood, you really should take the eight and a half minutes to do so. I’m glad someone finally said the sexual exploitation of children is wrong, and that Hollywood’s complicity and hypocrisy are appalling. However, the problem is deeper than Maher thinks...</description></item>
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  39. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3924114843611567723</guid><category>Center</category><title>Daddy, what bead are we on?</title><link>https://epicpew.com/daddy-what-bead-are-we-on/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Perna)</author><description>“Daddy, what bead are we on?” is a question I am asked frequently by my two oldest sons during our nighttime rosary. It is a question that at first perturbed me, but the more they asked the question, the more I fell in love with them asking the question. Their little souls are so precious. They seek to love God in their own way, and in their time. Although they lose their place on the rosary...</description></item>
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  43. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3165132060466848310</guid><category>Center</category><title>The world’s second-biggest Catholic church is about to debut more new Marko Rupnik mosaics — but abuse victims warn ‘in Rupnik, sexual dimension can’t be separated from creative experience’...</title><link>https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/alleged-victims-of-father-marko-rupnik-his-art-cannot-be-separated-from-abuse-claims/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>For the rector of the world’s second-largest church after St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in Brazil, May 11 will be a day of celebrating the inauguration of the southern facade’s mosaics, all created by Father Marko Rupik. But alleged victims of the disgraced former Jesuit and many faithful are not in celebratory mood...</description></item>
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  47. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8822743025152423966</guid><category>Center</category><title>Hungry Priests Are Not Needy Priests...</title><link>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hungry-priests-are-not-needy-priests/id1730124087?i=1000653431486</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Patrick Lencioni)</author><description>The position of a priest can be the loneliest position in the world. All humans have a fundamental hunger to be appreciated, yet very few of our Spiritual Fathers fully receive or seek this out. Affirming what you know is good and true about another person is not only necessary, but essential, for the nourishment of any relationship. This can begin with you...</description></item>
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  49. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7321236541779061463</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Pope says you’re welcome. But are you interested?</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/pope-says-youre-welcome-but-are-you-interested/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Phil Lawler)</author><description>In the latest, broadcast by CBS (with a more extensive version to air in May), Pope Francis is asked about the many Catholics who have left the Church. His answer is revealing in several ways. He insists that there is “always a place” for Catholics in the Church. “If in this parish, the priest doesn’t seem welcoming, I understand,” he says; “but go and look elsewhere”...</description></item>
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  51. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7113263971329971680</guid><category>Center</category><title>Mothering Sunday: The baptismal holiday we missed in America...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/mothering-sunday-baptismal-holiday-we-missed-in-america/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jeff Mirus)</author><description>It’s a little late for this year, but I’ve just learned, for the first time in my life, of the special day called Mothering Sunday, observed in the United Kingdom and some other related countries. Contrary to some sources, this is not an opportunity for people to visit their mothers, and it doesn’t have much to do with the movie of the same name. Rather, this observance originated in the Middle Ages on the fourth Sunday in Lent...</description></item>
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  53. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2912440130493504701</guid><category>Left</category><title>Begotten by Love: A Reflection on the Sixth Sunday of Easter...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/audio/sunday-bible-reflections/begotten-by-love-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-sixth-sunday-of-easter/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Scott Hahn)</author><description>God is love, and He revealed that love in sending His only Son to be a sacrificial offering for our sins. In these words from today’s Epistle, we should hear an echo of the story of Abraham’s offering of Isaac at the dawn of salvation history. Because Abraham obeyed God’s command and did not withhold his only beloved son, God promised that Abraham’s descendants...</description></item>
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  55. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1795452931595103108</guid><category>Center</category><title>This book offers support and hope for Catholic dads who have lost a child...</title><link>https://respectliferadio.podbean.com/e/bryan-feger-the-grief-of-dads/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>“Men seem to have a delayed grief relative to women,” says Bryan Feger, co-author of The Grief of Dads: Support and Hope for Catholic Fathers Navigating Child Loss from Ave Maria Press. “And usually that's because they're focused on providing care and support for their wife, and so they delay their grief.”</description></item>
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  57. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5439739667352752051</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Do Atheists Believe?</title><link>https://stacytrasancos.substack.com/p/what-do-atheists-believe</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Stacy Trasancos)</author><description>Words are the way we communicate from one mind to another. A word is external expression of an internal idea, but it is not a mechanical or quantifiable act in binary code with precise meaning. The same word can mean different things to different people. To “believe” is such a word. Previously (What is Atheism?), I used Graham Oppy’s book, Atheism: The Basics, for the definition of atheism...</description></item>
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  59. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9099926305472978351</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Fruitful Trials of St. Paul...</title><link>https://parishableitems.com/2024/04/28/the-fruitful-trials-of-st-paul/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Victor Feltes)</author><description>Imagine if Osama bin Laden, after masterminding terrorist attacks, had repented and begun proclaiming Jesus Christ and the Gospel? Christians might understandably still be afraid of him and wary of his claimed Christian conversion. In the first century, prior to his famous conversion, St. Paul had intensely persecuted God’s Church and tried to destroy it...</description></item>
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  61. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1630141692481698292</guid><category>Left</category><title>Shows like ‘Ghost Hunters’ are silly. For centuries, the world’s expert in paranormal investigations has been the Catholic Church.....</title><link>https://jimmyakin.com/2024/04/catholic-paranormal-investigations.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jimmy Akin)</author><description>These days, there are numerous ghost hunting and paranormal TV shows. A few examples include Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, Kindred Spirits, Paranormal Lockdown, and Help! My House Is Haunted.Frankly, these shows are silly. Shows like this are not taken seriously by competent paranormal investigators.However, what is a Catholic to make of the subject of paranormal investigations itself?</description></item>
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  63. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1914271380795302999</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Francis to Visit Verona for a Trip Centered on Peace and Justice...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257524/pope-francis-to-visit-verona-for-a-trip-centered-on-peace-and-justice</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>After completing a one-day trip to Venice, Pope Francis is set to return to northern Italy in late May for a visit to the city of Verona, where he will attend events focused on peace and justice while also meeting with clergy, laity, and inmates. The Holy See Press Office on Monday released the pope’s schedule for the one-day trip scheduled for May 18 on the vigil of Pentecost.</description></item>
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  65. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7695186513315412296</guid><category>Left</category><title>Here’s a Catholic spiritual hand grenade for you.....</title><link>https://catholicmissionarydisciples.com/news/a-catholic-hand-grenade</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marcel LeJeune)</author><description>I have a charism that causes problems for me periodically. It can feel like I am tossing a spiritual hand grenade into the room and walking out before it goes off. But, before I tell you more about it, I want to make sure we all understand charisms the same. A charism is a gift of the Holy Spirit, given for the good of others, so the person with the charism becomes a channel of God’s love for others.</description></item>
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  67. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3340349567990547081</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Francis Visits Venice to Speak to the Artists and Inmates Behind the Biennale’s ‘Must-See’ Prison Show...</title><link>https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-venice-biennale-885ddbcd4171c3ba08e1e8ee6039ddc2</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Venice has always been a place of contrasts, of breathtaking beauty and devastating fragility, where history, religion, art and nature have collided over the centuries to produce an otherworldly gem of a city. But even for a place that prides itself on its culture of unusual encounters, Pope Francis’ visit Sunday stood out.</description></item>
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  69. <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-386229005074633678</guid><category>Left</category><title>Beep baseball is like regular baseball, but it’s the hitter, not the ump, who’s blind. And its World Series is coming in July.....</title><link>https://websterjournal.com/2024/04/26/blind-baseball-world-series-coming-to-st-charles/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Close your eyes and imagine standing in the outfield of a big baseball game. You can’t see the ball but after the pitcher winds up, you hear the crack of the bat. Your first step is backwards as you get your first view of the ball, flying further and further away as the ball rapidly approaches the grassy surface. The only thing you can do is reach out your glove as you run at full throttle, then you hear the sudden puff of the ball hitting your glove.</description></item>
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