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Richard Szczepanowski

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Colin Powell is recalled for priority he put on education, hard work, goals


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News

Powell, who was the nation’s first Black secretary of state, as well as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and national security adviser, died early Oct. 18 of complications from COVID-19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside of Washington, where he was being treated for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. He was 84.

Cardinal Gregory: Catholic media’s task is to wed the facts to ‘truth of the Gospel’


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Racial Justice, Social Justice, World News

As the nation struggles to fight a pandemic and address social strife and racial injustice, the Catholic media have the important task of presenting news truthfully and in light of the Gospel values taught by the church, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington told Catholic media professionals June 9.

At national memorial, Cardinal Gregory prays for all who died of COVID-19


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Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, World News

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.

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