Jan. 20, 2020 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON Saying the nation reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray for the many thousands of people who have died from the coronavirus during this past year, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered the invocation at a pre-inauguration memorial service Jan. 19 to honor and remember the more than 400,000 Americans who have succumbed to COVID-19. We turn to the Lord of all to receive these, our sisters and brothers, into eternal peace and to comfort all of those who grieve the loss of a loved one, Cardinal Gregory said in his invocation at the memorial service, attended by President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Let us, with one heart, commend those who have died from this virus and all of their loved ones to the providential care of the One who is the ultimate source of peace, unity and concord.
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From left: incoming First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and President-elect Joe Biden
| Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty President-Elect Joe Biden Speaks At The Major Joseph R. Beau Biden III National Guard Reserve Center In Wilmington, Delaware
President-elect Joe Biden speaks on Tuesday from Delaware.
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Biden will be sworn in on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol alongside Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
In his speech Tuesday, Biden paused to recognize the history Harris, 56, is set to make as the first Black person, first person of South Asian descent and first woman to hold the country s second-highest office. Where 12 years ago, I was waiting at the train station in Wilmington for a Black man to pick me up on our way to Washington, where we were sworn in as president and vice president of the United States, Biden said, alluding to his first swearing-in alongside former President Barack Obama, now 59, back in 2009.
Trump sowed divisions until the bitter end. It may have been his biggest success. Courtland Milloy In preparing a farewell to President Trump, I reviewed television footage of him sowing doubt about President Barack Obama’s nationality. “He doesn’t have a birth certificate,” Trump tells Fox News in March 2011. “He may have one, but there is something on that birth certificate maybe religion, maybe it says he’s a Muslim; I don’t know.” The following month, Trump is still at it. “I have people that have been studying it, and they cannot believe what they’re finding,” he told NBC.