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							<title><![CDATA[Nikki Haley's Latest First Won't Likely Be Her Last]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nikki Haley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' broke another barrier late last week.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations became the first woman to address the Society of the Friendly Sons of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' St. Patrick at'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' its'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' annual membership dinner in New York City. The first female speaker in the 235-year...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Catholics Must Demand of Their Church]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/24/what_catholics_must_demand_of_their_church_137884.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania grand jury report, detailing abuse, crimes, and coverups by Catholic priests over many years, provides plenty that sickens the stomach and soul:
--The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'filth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' -- to use Pope Benedict XVI'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s word from Good Friday 2005 -- found from church to church, parish...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Anti-Catholic Bigotry Returns to the Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/09/14/anti-catholic_bigotry_returns_to_the_senate_134994.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I wonder how Daniel Patrick Moynihan would have responded to the Catholic baiting employed by two of his onetime Senate Democratic colleagues last week. Moynihan, who served in office until 2001 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and died in 2003 -- noted that anti-Catholicism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' remains an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'acceptable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Woman Who Made the World Better]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/04/28/a_woman_who_made_the_world_better_133731.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a city where friends are supposedly scarce, Kate O'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'Beirne was beloved by so many.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 
Kate died this past Sunday -- Divine Mercy Sunday -- surrounded by family and loved ones.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  Kate would point out that there was no need to identify the date she was born. She was old-school like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Gorsuch Pick: Promises Made, Promises Kept]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/02/02/trumps_gorsuch_pick_promises_made_promises_kept_132968.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Well, that was quick. Once again proving himself to be no ordinary politician, President Trump took a New York minute to deliver on one of the most important promises of his presidential campaign. Make that promises, because Monday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smear Campaign Against Sessions Ignores the Facts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/12/18/smear_campaign_against_sessions_ignores_the_facts_132588.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stipulate upfront that the Senate battle over Jeff Sessions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' nomination for U.S. attorney general is not about Jeff Sessions. Everybody knows this. Everybody also knows the Senate is going to confirm Sessions. No, the opposition to Alabama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s senator is about two...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hollywood Spotlight on South Sudan's Horrors]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/23/a_hollywood_spotlight_on_south_sudans_horrors_131871.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The little-known new nation of South Sudan is attracting the attention of two respected Hollywood actors, which isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t as incongruous as it might sound to some.
After all, George Clooney and Don Cheadle are known for their social activism, and they are once again spotlighting a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Problem With Women Will Tar the GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/29/trumps_problem_with_women_will_tar_the_gop_130118.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'April is the cruelest month,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' wrote T.S. Eliot, and he didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t even know Donald Trump.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'  And Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attacks on Heidi Cruz in March have left us in wonder. What Trump cruelties does April hold? Or May, June, and July? 
Not content to merely threaten to somehow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Call ISIS' Killing by Its True Name: Genocide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/15/call_isis_killing_by_its_true_name_genocide_129970.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Just words.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'
Remember the phrase? It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s from eight years ago. The Illinois senator and Democratic Party presidential candidate was responding to rival candidate Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s criticisms that there was more to being president than giving...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia, the Brilliant, Joyful Justice]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I first met Antonin Scalia, the father of a childhood friend, when I was just shy of 14. I remember him as joyful and a bit intimidating then. All these years later, he remained joyful and a bit intimidating in my eyes. Maybe even more so.
As an adult, you come to understand that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christie's Words, Actions at Odds on Judges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/01/25/christies_words_actions_at_odds_on_judges_129417.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Stop digging, Governor. You'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re violating the Rule of Holes: When you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re in one, stop digging. 
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is in a deep hole of his own making on Supreme Court nominations, and this week he just kept digging. For almost three and a half minutes at a campaign...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pope's Africa Visit May Spotlight South Sudan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/11/26/the_popes_africa_visit_may_spotlight_south_sudan_128856.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pope Francis is making his first trip to Africa this month. Catholics in South Sudan are praying that a few words from the Holy Father on African soil might help bring lasting peace and create a stable future for a war-ravaged nation that is among the poorest and least developed on the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Boehner and the Virtue of Prudence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/10/23/john_boehner_and_the_virtue_of_prudence_128510.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joni Mitchell told us, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know what you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve got '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'til it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gone.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Many Republicans are now discovering what they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve had in House Speaker John Boehner before he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s gone, thanks in part to the unedifying spectacle that finding his successor has...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Soft Power of a Papal Message to the U.N.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/10/01/the_soft_power_of_a_papal_message_to_the_un_128265.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why do they listen to Pope Francis? Are the members of the U.N. General Assembly simply going through the motions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'taking in yet another stock address from yet another world leader, searching for a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'money'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' quotation or papal endorsement they can exploit in their own favored...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Call It What It Is: Genocide]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/22/religious-liberty-call-it-genocide/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ann Corkery</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is widely expected that during this week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s visit to the United States, Pope Francis will say what is already clear to the rest of the world, but which too many other leaders are afraid to say themselves: The systematic persecution and murder of Christians, Yezidis, Muslims and...]]></description>
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