Posted on 01/07/2021 5:20:04 PM PST by ebb tide
Jesuit Fr. Leo O'Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.
O'Donovan confirmed to NCR that Biden had personally called him and invited him to offer the prayer at the inauguration, which will mark the election of the nation's second Catholic president, and that he had accepted.
O'Donovan is a longtime friend of the Biden family. In 2015, he presided at the funeral Mass for Biden's oldest son, Beau, after he died of brain cancer at the age of 46.
Biden is known to be close with a number of Jesuit priests, and while he was vice president, he occasionally attended Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown. In 1992, when Biden's son Hunter was a senior at Georgetown, O'Donovan invited the then-senator from Delaware to give a lecture at the Jesuit university on his faith and public life. Biden told O'Donovan at the time it was the "toughest assignment he's ever had."
More recently, just days after his presidential election, on Nov. 12, Biden appeared at a virtual fundraiser for Jesuit Refugee Service, where O'Donovan now serves as director of mission. On that occasion, Biden announced that he would raise the annual admission target of new refugees into the United States to 125,000, marking a sharp increase to the Trump administration's cap of 15,000 individuals.
Previously, in 2018, Biden penned the forward to O'Donovan's book Blessed Are the Refugees: Beatitudes of Immigrant Children.
Catholics have a long history of participating in prayers for inaugural events. In 1937, Fr. John Ryan offered the benediction at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration. Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston offered the invocation at the inauguration of the nation's first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. More recently, in 2017, New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan provided a Scripture reading at the inauguration for President Donald Trump.
While other specific details of the inauguration lineup of speakers have yet to be announced, the Biden-Harris transition team announced last month that on the eve of the inauguration, there will be a memorial to honor lives lost to COVID-19, which will include the ringing of church bells throughout Washington, D.C.
Ping
I’ve heard enough from a Jesuit for my lifetime.
Leader of apostate church gives invocation of inaugration of apostate president
Jesuits have been the servants of all kinds of wickedness since their inception.
“...Barf Alert..”
HUGE Barf Alert at that!!
Oh great— another butt pirate consecrated cabalist. Sent by the head homo himself, for a fake lying excommunicated mental case.
Is this the guy who has a likeness of Karl Marx tattooed on his buttocks?
“Catholic” Biden picks a Jesuit.
Big surprise. /s
Figures that Biden would choose one of those boy raping Communist Jesuits. Kindred spirits.
The Roman Catholic Church should be excommunicating the Criminal Sock Puppet, not celebrating a fraudulent inauguration. With Bergoglio in charge, a Jesuit heretic himself, it won’t happen.
Can’t..Lots more black and poor babies to exterminate.....
Jesuit is a term for an atheist masquerading as a Catholic priest.
No true Christian would want to get within 50 feet of that pig.
Who said that a Jesuit is a true Christian?
Jesuit refugee service??? Is that one of those operations that use church money to import Muzzy rapeugees and resettle them in the US?
“which will mark the election of the nation’s second Catholic president, “
Oh, yeah, all we need
The first one:
invaded a foreign country using a surrogate army
damn near started WWIII with the Ruskkis
did started the mess we called the ‘war’ in Vietnam
reportedly he and his bro did just about every dame they met
oh yeah, and wanted to ditch the Fed and have the FedGov print all the dough they wanted.
I can’t imagine what fun and hilarity await us with this one...
Perfect Definition. Marx, Stalin and Fidel Castro studied under the Jesuits.
He’s Jesuit so what would you expect.
So, which god will he be offering an invocation for?
I’m thinking either Moloch, Mammon, Asmodeus, Leviathan, Beelzebub, Satan himself or Lucifer.
Biden plans to appoint infernal judges Minos, Acacus, Rhadamanthus to the expanded SCOTUS.
Environmental policy will be handled by Samael, Azazel, Azael, and Mahazael.
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