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		<title>LeoWatch:  Islam</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/18/leowatch-islam/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pope Bob would rather eat ground glass than say a word against &#8220;The Religion of Peace&#8221; and its more frenzied adherents.]]></description>
		
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		<title>May 18, 1917:  Wilson Signs Selective Service Act of 1917</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; The first draft imposed since the Civil War, the Selective Service Act of 1917, passed by overwhelming majorities in Congress, was signed by President Wilson 109 years ago.  The Act provided for the enlistment, at the discretion of the President, of the four volunteer divisions that Theodore Roosevelt planned to lead.  Go here [&#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>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Pope Saint John I</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/18/saint-of-the-day-quote-2311/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Truth remains unshaken even when the world misunderstands it. Pope Saint John I]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prayerful Posse</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/18/prayerful-posse/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<title>May 17, 1863:  A Credit to Old Ireland</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle of the Bigh Black River]]></category>
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		<title>Blank Paper Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 05:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Not well.  I could answer a few of the questions but not well enough to gain a scholarship.  From the vantage point of 124 years we can see that higher education has become transmuted for the worse.  A difference in kind rather than degree. &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>May 17, 1981:  Reagan at Notre Dame</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 05:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Reagan Foundation has a great section in which you can access the personal diary of President Ronald Reagan.  Here is his diary entry from forty years ago: Change signals on Prince Turki—he left for Saudi Arabia today by commercial plane. An easy morning with the Sunday papers—my exercises and then boarded the chopper [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Good Samaritan and the Roman Centurion Would like a Word</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 05:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Who is my neighbor]]></category>
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/17/burn-of-the-day-630/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 05:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Giulia Salzano</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/17/saint-of-the-day-quote-2310/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 05:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saint Giulia Salzano]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; While I have any life left in me, I will continue to teach the catechism.   And then, I assure you, I would be very happy to die teaching the catechism. &#160; Saint Giulia Salzano]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gold Watch</title>
		<link>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/16/gold-watch/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canonization]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It cheapens canonization and turns it into a posthumous form of boot-licking for the deceased boss.  This baleful trend started with John Paul II who was a great man.  If worthy of canonization he should have received it two centuries from now instead of the unseemly rush that saw him raised to the honors of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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