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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Therese of Lisieux</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/01/saint-of-the-day-quote-2443/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; It&#8217;s true, I suffer a great deal&#8211;but do I suffer well? That is the question. &#160; Saint Therese of Lisieux]]></description>
		
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		<title>LeoWatch:  Lavender Mafia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am sure that Pope Leo will deal with the Lavender Mafia around the seventh of never.  Let us pray that he is not a member in good standing.]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Republic Will Be Ever In His Debt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
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		<title>John Drinkwater&#8217;s Abraham Lincoln</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/01/john-drinkwaters-abraham-lincoln/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Golden Age of Television]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The things you find on the internet. John Drinkwater&#8217;s play, written in 1918, about Abraham Lincoln, which was broadcast on May 26, 1952 as an episode of the CBS Studio One anthology series. Robert Pastene has the title role. James Dean, yet undiscovered, has a walk on role as a soldier pardoned by Lincoln,]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lest We Forget</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/10/01/lest-we-forget-39/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lest We Forget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marquis de Lafayette]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; In 1824 when he returned to the US touring each of then 24 states of the Union, at the invitation of fellow veteran of the Revolution, President James Madison, Lafayette was often complimented on how well he spoke English.  With charm and humor Lafayette responded that how should an American not speak English after [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Jerome</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/09/30/saint-of-the-day-quote-2442/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom. &#160; &#160; Saint Jerome]]></description>
		
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		<title>Artificial Intelligence?</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/09/30/very-artificial-intelligence/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Artificial &#8220;intelligence&#8221; reminds me of what Mark Twain said when his wife attempted to break him of his habit of swearing by repeating some of his favorite swear words after Twain let loose following his cutting himself shaving: &#160; You have the words, dear, but you don&#8217;t know the tune. &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Prayer to Thunder Out</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/09/30/thought-for-the-day-1495/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/09/29/thought-for-the-day-1494/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Blessed Richard Rolle de Hampole,</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/09/29/saint-of-the-day-quote-2441/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Love is the thing through which God loves us, and we Him, and each one of us loves others. &#160; Blessed Richard Rolle de Hampole]]></description>
		
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		<title>September 29:   Feast of the Archangels</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/09/29/saint-of-the-day-quote-23/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; THIS festival has been kept with great solemnity on the 29th of September ever since the fifth age, and was certainly celebrated in Apulia in 493. The dedication of the famous church of St. Michael on Mount Gargano, in Italy, 1 gave occasion to the institution of this feast in the West, which is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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