President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the economy and the final U.S. jobs report of 2020 at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Dec. 4, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Leah Millis)
Cleveland Democrat Joe Biden became the second Catholic elected to lead the country Nov. 3, outpolling Republican incumbent Donald Trump by calling for national unity and cooperation and determination to overcome the coronavirus pandemic.
Garnering more than 81.2 million votes, the most for a presidential candidate in history, Biden was establishing his administration as he prepared to take the oath of office Jan. 20.
The election became all the more historic by the election of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, as vice president. She will be the first woman to hold the second-highest position in the federal government.
Famous for his homework sheets created on a manual typewriter, Discalced Carmelite Fr. Reginald Foster is seen working in his Vatican office in this January 2007 file photo. The Vatican Latinist and teacher of Latin died Dec. 25, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (CNS/Chris Warde-Jones)
Vatican City Discalced Carmelite Fr. Reginald Foster a world-renowned teacher of Latin, former longtime Vatican Latinist and colorful character who intrigued journalists died in Milwaukee Dec. 25 at the age of 81.
Fr. Michael Berry, the Wisconsin-based provincial of the Discalced Carmelites, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Foster had tested positive for COVID-19 in early December, and he expected the official cause of death to be complications from the coronavirus.
Australian Cardinal George Pell holds a copy of his book, Prison Journal, during an interview with Catholic News Service at his residence in Rome Dec. 18, 2020. Cardinal Pell talked to CNS about his new book, his time in prison and his plans for the future. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan) Dec. 18, 2020 Catholic News Service ROME The first evening Australian Cardinal George Pell was incarcerated, he began writing a record of his thoughts and experiences in the form of a diary. I am now at the quiet heart of the storm, while family, friends, and wider church have to cope with the tornado, wrote the cardinal, who had been convicted against his adamant denials and refutations of the allegations on five counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the 1990s.