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		<title>Lawrence Charles McClarey:  In Memoriam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Lawrence Charles McClarey Birth:  September 5, 1991 (Feast day of Saint Lawrence Justinian) Death:  May 19, 2013 (Pentecost) &#160; [25] Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: [26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never [&#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, 19 May 2026 05:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Never presume and never despair.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Every Day Should Be Memorial Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Burn of the Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When you get into a &#8220;who has the oldest tree&#8221; battle with the US, you&#8217;ve already lost.  Trump is older than Red China.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Saint of the Day Quote:  Saint Maria Bernarda Butler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Holy Spirit taught me to adore, praise, bless and give thanks to Jesus in the tabernacle at all times, even at work and in real life. &#160; Saint Maria Bernarda Butler]]></description>
		
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		<title>LeoWatch:  Islam</title>
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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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<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>
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					<comments>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/18/saint-of-the-day-quote-2311/#respond</comments>
		
		<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>
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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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					<comments>https://the-american-catholic.com/2026/05/17/may-17-1863-a-credit-to-old-ireland/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald R. McClarey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 23:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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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