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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Pope Saint Pius X,</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: ‘There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land’ (Hosea 4:1).       Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watching Movies With Dad</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Shane: Yeah, you&#8217;ve lived too long. Your kind of days are over. Ryker: My days! What about yours, gunfighter? Shane: The difference is I know it. Ryker: All right. So we&#8217;ll all turn in our six-guns to the bartender. We&#8217;ll all start hoeing spuds. Is that it? Shane: Not quite yet. [to Wilson] We [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>So Are the Days of Our Lives</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a framed print of this painting up in my law library, but I didn&#8217;t know the back story until now.  I always assumed that the clerk was thinking wistfully of either a lost love, or of the supper waiting for him.  The bride to be standing on tip toes to fill out the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Definitely No Returns</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/21/definitely-no-returns/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Markles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>It Wasn&#8217;t Just the Men Who Were Iron Men in Pioneer Days</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Western Wagons They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze, They went with wife and children, in the prairie-schooner days, With banjo and with frying pan—Susanna, don&#8217;t you cry! For I&#8217;m off to California to get rich out there or die! We&#8217;ve broken land and cleared it, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Bernard of Clairvaux</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. &#160; &#160; Saint Bernard of Clairvaux]]></description>
		
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		<title>LeoWatch:  A Flat Failure</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/20/leowatch-a-flat-failure/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Go here to read more on the Pope&#8217;s remarks.  As an American, he has to know what a tedious mess, bad hymns preserved in amber over the last half century, most Mass music is in this country.  However, I suspect that he is a true ideologue, and ideologues never let mere facts stand in their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/20/burn-of-the-day-665/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mr. Ponder saved me a lot of work.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/20/thought-for-the-day-1479/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Reichstag Fire</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/19/reichstag-fire/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The J6 debacle was used to attempt to crush any opposition to the Democrat party for many years.  It was a trap and President Trump rushed into it.  The part that the Courts played in this was despicable with a few honorable exceptions.  The contrast to the treatment of the Black Live Matters rioters in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Blessed Emily Bicchieri</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/19/saint-of-the-day-quote-2404/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am not alone, my sisters; see, I bring Jesus to bless you. Blessed Emily Bicchieri]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remember Him</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/08/19/remember-him-14/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blessed Martín Martínez]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We will all die happy if we meet death with a fraction of his faith, courage and hope. Viva Cristo Rey!]]></description>
		
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