At national memorial, Cardinal Gregory prays for all who died of COVID-19
The U.S. Capitol is seen reflected at the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington Jan. 19, 2021, after President-elect Joe Biden hosted a memorial honoring those who died from the coronavirus disease. (CNS photo/Callaghan O Hare, Reuters)
By Richard Szczepanowski • Catholic News Service • Posted January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) 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.