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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Blessed Giuseppe &#8220;Pino&#8221; Puglis</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/21/saint-of-the-day-quote-2461/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I&#8217;ve been expecting you. &#160; Blessed Giuseppe &#8220;Pino&#8221; Puglis said these words to Mafia hitman before they murdered him on his 56th birthday in 1993.  He had fearlessly attacked the Mafia in Sicily and murder was their way of attempting to silence him.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Southwest Chief</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; My Bride and I this week will be traveling on the Sowthwest Chief,  an Amtrak train that goes from Chicago through the Southwest and on to California, although we will only go as far as Albuquerque, with apologies to Bugs Bunny, before turning back .  My Bride has long had a fascination with passenger [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>You Do Not Distrust Polling Enough</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/21/you-do-not-distrust-polling-enough/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; What a bad farce polling has become.  Polling worked, barely, when almost all adults had a land line phone and almost all phone numbers were listed.  Those days are long dead and gone.  We are left with something as &#8220;scientific&#8221; as voodoo and astrology.  Campaigns waste untold tens of millions of dollars on these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/21/burn-of-the-day-695/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>October 21, 1879:  Thomas Edison Invents the Incandescent Light Bulb</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/21/72130/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Invention]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#8220;We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.&#8221;         Thomas Edison, 1879 &#160; &#160; &#8220; Ah, Thomas Edison, that paragon of hard work and genius.  Electric lights had been experimented with since 1802.  Making a commercially viable light bulb however, eluded the numerous scientists working on the problem [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Viking Kitten!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earnest Borgnine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Vikings (1958)]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Bonus: &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Bertilla Boscardin</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/20/saint-of-the-day-quote-2462/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; We should never allow ourselves to be disturbed by things that are transitory and not eternal. Saint Bertilla Boscardin]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open Thread</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/20/open-thread-65/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The usual Open Thread rules apply:  be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/20/burn-of-the-day-694/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>October 20, 1918:  Germany Responds to Wilson&#8217;s Second Note</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/20/october-20-1918-germany-responds-to-wilsons-second-note/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fourteen Points]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On October 20, 1918 the German government, through the Swiss, sent out a response to President Wilson&#8217;s Second Note: &#160; &#160; In accepting the proposal for an evacuation of the occupied territories the German Government has started from the assumption that the procedure of this evacuation and of the conditions of an armistice should be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prince of Politicians</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/20/satan-explains-it-all-2/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>October 19, 1984:  Martyrdom of Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/19/blessed-jerzy-popieluszko/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; We are to speak the truth when others are silent. Express love and respect when others sow hatred. Be silent when others speak. Pray when others swear. Help when others don&#8217;t want to. Forgive when others can&#8217;t. Enjoy life when others ignore it.  Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko &#160; &#160; &#160; The Communist government [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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