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		<title>A Real Faith Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/378</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article from Common Dreams, “The Book of Jobs: A Banking System is Supposed to Serve Society, Not the Other Way Around,” analyzes our current national banking fiasco. It also seems to describe the institutional handling of clergy sexual abuse.  ‘The diagnosis of our condition and the prescription that followed from it were incorrect. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State, child sexual abuse, and why we are responsible</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day the revelations about Jerry Sandusky’s history of child sexual abuse during the decades he ran his ‘Second Mile’ non-profit in which hundreds of vulnerable boys were exposed to his care become more infuriating. Adults saw, told other adults, reported to police, reported to university administrators, received formal complaints as far back as 1998 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Inconvenient Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/371</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate change, it’s worse than we originally thought.  I’m reading “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” by Thomas Friedman and I can’t help thinking of the parallels to the epidemic of sexual abuse of children.  It’s worse than we originally thought. And when it comes to religious authority sexual abuse (RASA), there are parallels to how those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Shame and Forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/367</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I believe the transformation from Survivor to Thriver happens when we can forgive the abuser. Maybe the transformation from Victim to Survivor happens when we can forgive ourselves.”
A wise friend, teacher, therapist and thriver shared this observation with me.  You can read more about his thoughts in an article called, “Forgiveness, the Best Revenge.”  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Through Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/364</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It is Lent, a time where we might consider death and new life, perhaps death of denial and the new life of advocacy breakthroughs .
It may seem that institutional denial its consequences are alive and strong all over the world: Malta, Australia, Chile, and Ireland. We see steps of accountability in the institutionalized cover up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conforming, Reforming, Transforming</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/356</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s an expression, ‘it’s not that we don’t see the solution; it’s that we don’t see the problem.’
Some people are beginning to see the serious problems of clergy abuse and institutional cover up clearly. We’ve seen horrific abuse in the Boy Scouts, in the Mormon church, in the Baptist Church&#8211; everywhere.  It’s not just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victims and Survivors Don&#8217;t Heal</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/352</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[J. Romo Posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Victim/survivors do not &#8220;heal&#8221;. All the victim/survivors that I have emailed in the last nine years will never &#8220;heal&#8221;. What I am able to say is that they are still alive. No answer needed.”
That’s what the e-mail said. I was struck by the certainty in that statement. And I do need to respond, as I hope that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists Have Lost Their Minds and Rightly So</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/348</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, as a member of a Church Vitality Team, I called several ministers to hold a listening session, and find out what they were doing and needing in order to have a vital, healthy environment, and find out how the Church Vitality Team could help them and their members with coaching, consulting, or special presentations—whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abusive Empires Falling</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/345</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The symbolism is abundantly rich.  First the land of Pharaohs overthrow oppression. Then, throughout the region, in the land of kings, people revolt for their human rights.  Barain, Iran, Libya, Algeria&#8211; each with its own process of finding voice and dealing with the resistance to change. Would that the next revolution be one of religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Tucson</title>
		<link>http://www.jaimeromo.com/blog/archives/342</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing to realize is that you are the glory of God… The question is not so much, “How to live for the glory of God?” but, “How to live where we are, how to make true our deepest self?”
You are the place where God chose to dwell, you are God’s place and the [...]]]></description>
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