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		<title>Vatican Ends Cause for Canonization of Soviet Gulag Priest</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Vatican has announced that it is closing the canonization cause for Fr Walter Ciszek. If you don’t know about Fr Ciszek, I encourage you to read his book, With God in Russia.  As for the cause of his canonization, I don’t trouble myself about the inner workings of the Vatican concerning things like beatifying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We’re 9 Weeks into a 4 Week War We &#8220;Won&#8221; 8 Weeks Ago</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 12:22a Trump’s idiotic, unnecessary, costly, and 100% failed Iran War shows Americans one thing.  If we ever get into a war with someone who has the military power to really hurt us and Trump is our Commander in Chief, We. Are. Toast. Trump has lost his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Supremes’ Voting Rights Ruling is a High Class Lynching</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Racism is a life issue because it directly attacks human dignity and threatens life, similar to abortion or euthanasia.  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops The United States Supreme Court  overturned the requirement for equal representation in the Voting Rights Act of 1964.   The Supreme Court, by doing this, also overturned 60 years of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pope&#8217;s May Prayer Intention: That All People Will Have Food</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pope Leo’s prayer intention for May 2026 is especially pointed for Americans. The Holy Father asks us to pray that the no one would suffer starvation in this world of plenty. He specifically asks us to pray for food banks and aid efforts which seek to provide food for those who do not have enough. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>USCCB Corrects Vance Comment on Pope Leo&#8217;s Iran War Teaching</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ.  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops I’m posting this now instead of when it came out for the simple reason that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Police Investigate Bomb Threat Against Pope Leo&#8217;s Brother</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pope Leo’s brother was the target of a bomb threat yesterday. Police evacuated homes surrounding John Prevost’s house before sending in bomb squads to search the Prevost residence. Once the area was cleared, residents were allowed to return to their homes. This was not the home of Louis Prevost, Pope Leo’s brother who Trump said [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Attacks Church. Jerks Catholic Charities Funding.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump has mis-used his power to broaden his attacks on the Catholic Church. Catholic Charities receives federal monies through grants and state health and human service contracts for providing social welfare aid to poverty stricken people. Much of this is contractual.  In what appears to be a blatant reprisal against the Catholic Church, Trump has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MAGA Attack Dogs Back Trump as He Doubles Down on Blasphemy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into the darkness and filth.  Pope Leo XIV, April 16, 2026 Trump posted another meme degrading Jesus yesterday. This one had Jesus holding Trump in His arms. I took a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trump Attacks Pope Again. Leo Responds with Call for Peace</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Years ago, my sister and brother-in-law woke in the middle of the night to strange sounds coming from their dining room. My Vietnam veteran, career police officer brother-in-law went to check. What he found was a large, mature copperhead snake that had managed to wriggle into the house through a crack in their patio door. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pope Leo says He&#8217;s Not Afraid of Trump.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Hamilton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel, which is what the Church works for.  Pope Leo XIV Trump doesn’t like Pope Leo.  Trump is trying to force Pope Leo to fall down and worship Trump, not Jesus.  Trump wants Pope Leo to be a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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