<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
  <title><![CDATA[Deacon Michael]]></title>
  <link>https://deaconmichael.net</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Faith, family, work, and life - all intertwined]]></description>
  <language>en-us</language>
  <atom:link href="https://deaconmichael.net/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
  <lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:45:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[5 Things Catholics Should Know About AI and Consciousness]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/5-things-catholics-should-know-ai-consciousness</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/5-things-catholics-should-know-ai-consciousness</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A $60 billion company says its AI might be conscious. The Vatican disagrees. St. Teresa of Ávila - whose feast we celebrate this week - contributed to the thinking 450 years ago.]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Question Before the System]]></title>
    <link>https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/the-question-before-the-system</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/the-question-before-the-system</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Two institutions, two different technology failures, the same underlying mistake. The question before the system turns out to have four parts. And a fifth.]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Case for Staying]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/the-case-for-staying</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/the-case-for-staying</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A response to "just go somewhere else"]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Meeting Where Nothing Was Decided]]></title>
    <link>https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/the-meeting-where-nothing-was-decided</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/the-meeting-where-nothing-was-decided</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[Here's Your Roadmap]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/heres-your-roadmap</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/heres-your-roadmap</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[27th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) | Respect Life Sunday]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Sentence a Catholic Institution Can Speak with One Voice]]></title>
    <link>https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/weaving-shared-language-into-one-voice</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/weaving-shared-language-into-one-voice</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[Five Things Blessed Fulton Sheen Taught Us About the Mass]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/five-things-sheen-taught-us-about-the-mass</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/five-things-sheen-taught-us-about-the-mass</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I wore my Holy Hour stole to Sheen's beatification - the one I wear every Sunday evening at our parish's hour of Adoration. They asked us to wear white. Mine was more gold. But I figured a man who spent 60 years before the Blessed Sacrament would understand.]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[A Week in the Church]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/a-week-in-the-church</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/a-week-in-the-church</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[ICSC Conference, Sheen Beatification, Pope Leo in France, 40 parishioners diving into the Mass, teenagers showing up. Something is happening.]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[Heading to New Orleans]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/heading-to-new-orleans</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/heading-to-new-orleans</guid>
    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 64th International Catholic Stewardship Council Annual Conference]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Year We Were Held Back]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/the-year-we-were-held-back</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/the-year-we-were-held-back</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the parable of the workers in the vineyard]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[Standing With Her]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/standing-with-her</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/standing-with-her</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[Stop Counting]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/stop-counting</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/stop-counting</guid>
    <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>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[What Is Actually Asked of You]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/end-of-life-what-the-church-asks</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/end-of-life-what-the-church-asks</guid>
    <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>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Sanitary Food Preparation Act]]></title>
    <link>https://anothervoice.net/p/illinois-assisted-suicide-law</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://anothervoice.net/p/illinois-assisted-suicide-law</guid>
    <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>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[What We Remembered, What We Forgot]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/what-we-remembered-what-we-forgot</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/what-we-remembered-what-we-forgot</guid>
    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years after September 11]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[The Exhausted Middle]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/the-exhausted-middle</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/the-exhausted-middle</guid>
    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On the quiet majority, the parish, and where healing actually starts]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[What I Didn't Know I'd Feel]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/what-i-didnt-know-id-feel</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/what-i-didnt-know-id-feel</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On Matthew's graduation and the families who serve]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[Aligned]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/aligned</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/aligned</guid>
    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Three days at Disney World with Joseph]]></description>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[What the Wait Actually Buys You]]></title>
    <link>https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/what-the-wait-actually-buys-you</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://adaltaleadership.com/blog/what-the-wait-actually-buys-you</guid>
    <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>
  </item>
  <item>
    <title><![CDATA[What I'm Coming Back To]]></title>
    <link>https://deaconmichael.net/p/what-im-coming-back-to</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="true">https://deaconmichael.net/p/what-im-coming-back-to</guid>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On sabbaticals, solid selves, and staying]]></description>
  </item>
</channel>
</rss>