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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Maximus of Naples</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/06/10/saint-of-the-day-quote-2334/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bishop of Naples in the fourth century.  Forced into exile, he was replaced by Zosimus, a follower of the Arian heresy.  Whenever Zosimus attempted to speak he could not get the words out, which was attributed by the followers of Maximus to his prayers. Maximus would be martyred in 361.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Snoring Through the Sermon on the Mount</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bravo!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is why I support Trump even though he often irks me.  He rolls back the Left.  Too often conservatives have been elected who have done squat in office.  Trump did not run for election to become someone, he was already rich and famous, but to do something.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/06/10/burn-of-the-day-639/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Blessed Anne Mary Taigi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[God will send two punishments: one will be in the form of wars, revolutions and other evils&#8230; The other will be sent from Heaven. There shall come over the whole earth an intense darkness lasting three days and three nights. Prophecy of Blessed Anne Mary Taigi &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Attack on the USS Liberty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Massie, in all of his Jew hating glory, tried yesterday on the floor of the House to make hay of the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty.  Amazing he waited till the end of his time in Congress, a decade, to bring this burning issue from 59 years in the past to the fore. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thought for the  Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>True</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/06/09/true-67/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Surrender?  Surrender to whom, you bloody fool!  They have no leader! Major Pitcairn on the British retreat from Concord when another officer suggested they must surrender to the Americans. &#160; The cited quotes are probably apocryphal but throughout our wars our enemies have often lamented that we tend to do the unexpected.  It was noted [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Edgar the Peaceful</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/06/08/saint-of-the-day-quote-2332/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Firstly, that God&#8217;s church and all the Christian people of my dominions will be held in true peace. Secondly, I forbid robbery and all unlawful deeds by all ranks of men. Thirdly, I promise and command justice and mercy in all judgments&#8230; From the Coronation Oath in 975 of Saint Edgar the Peaceful]]></description>
		
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		<title>LeoWatch:  Word Salad</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Could we at least have some dressing with the word salad?]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Oyster Fuehrer Swears It</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/06/08/the-oyster-fuehrer-swears-it/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Graham Platner]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: SULLIVAN, ME — Following yet another scandal that engulfed his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine, Democrat Graham Platner reassured voters that there were probably only 14 or 15 more horrific revelations to come. In a damning article featured in The New York Times, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/06/08/burn-of-the-day-638/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve liked every Mormon I&#8217;ve met, but their theology has all the historical validity of The Force from Star Wars.  Joseph Smith was a born con man with a wild imagination, and the Mormon faith was his greatest con.  Having said that, the Pentagon placing the Mormons as a separate category is a fight this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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